She was previously an Associate Editor for the Health vertical for six years, and prior to joining PEOPLE worked at ... of bumps all over her body due to neurofibromatosis type 1, a hereditary ...

Because NF1 is an unpredictable disorder, it varies widely in severity – even among two people in the same family. Some people with NF1 may be completely unaware that they are affected, experiencing ...

Neurofibromatosis is a rare disease with the estimation of around one in 3,000 people living with this condition. However, that does not mean that there is zero help for those diagnosed in the ...

Neurofibromatosis type 2 is caused by a change in the NF2 ... which is part of a complex molecular signaling pathway that regulates how cells grow and divide. All people have two copies of every gene ...