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The real struggle and frustration of unexplained illnesses

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Cynthia Tifft, MD, PhD, is the director of the NIH’s Pediatric Undiagnosed Diseases Program, also called the Undiagnosed Diseases Network. Find out more about her work in this HealthMaker video.

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