GEORGETOWN COUNTY, SC (WMBF) - A Georgetown County teenager is preparing to head to Boston, Massachusetts, for a rare surgery to help treat two rare diseases. “He’s a true example to me,” mother ...

Rare diseases - a medical condition so obscure that even your doctor has to Google. Despite their name, these diseases collectively impact millions of Americans, creating a healthcare system that’s ...

Families, campaigners and clinicians are calling for more public money to be provided to pay for access to drugs which could ...

Rare diseases are defined as conditions affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US or less than 1 in 2,000 in Europe. 1-2 While each disease is individually rare, collectively, they represent a ...

Rare Disease Day raises awareness for the thousands of rare diseases affecting millions. Advancements in technology, such as gene therapy, offer hope for potential cures for rare diseases in the ...

As the grandfather of a girl with a rare disease, I’ve learned that for families like ours, hope often comes not as a cure, but as a clinical trial: carefully designed but inevitably exclusive. My ...

The majority of rare diseases have a genetic cause. The underlying genetic alteration can be found more and more easily, for example by means of exome sequencing (ES), leading to a molecular genetic ...

One in 5 of the highest-revenue drugs of 2022 was exclusively approved for rare conditions, accounting for more than 7% of US pharmaceutical spending. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Methods: ...

Students, clinicians, researchers and advocates will gather at UB on Feb. 27 for Rare Disease Day, an event that aims to raise awareness about rare diseases through education, collaboration and ...

The FDA has made some modest efforts, but it needs an internal organization that understands and would be an aggressive advocate for the development of rare-disease drugs. When I joined the FDA to be ...