News from NORD

Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation Produces New NMO Podcast


 

A new podcast series, NMO and the Power of Rare, is now available from the Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation. NMO or neuromyelitis optica affects the optic nerves, spinal cord, and brainstem. It can cause blindness and/or paralysis. It is sometimes misdiagnosed as MS.

Episode 1 of the series is titled The NMO Revolution: The Top 5 NMO Breakthroughs in the Past 5 Years. Nancy Sicotte, MD, Director of the MS Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, is interviewed for this episode.

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