As part of her medical training, North Carolina pediatrician Elizabeth Jalazo had studied a little about Angelman syndrome. “I…
Articles by Larry Luxner
Despite skyrocketing healthcare costs, President Trump is committed to protecting the 30 million or so Americans with rare diseases and…
Terry Jo Bichell, whose son’s Angelman syndrome inspired her to go back to college at the age of…
From the balcony of their spacious home in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, Faige and David Spolter…
Next month’s annual conference of the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) in Washington, D.C., couldn’t come at a…
Israel’s Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer already ranks as one of the world’s 10 best hospitals, according to…
Developing gene therapies for rare diseases is one thing. Creating gene-edited “designer babies” is quite another. German legal expert Timo…
Imagine living your whole life with a painful disease so rare that only 25 others worldwide have what you have.
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A new international consortium based in Paris, and funded largely by the 28-member European Union, intends to speed the diagnosis…