A new addition to Utah’s newborn screening panel could help future families detect a rare genetic disorder earlier, offering ...
Every year in the United States, thousands of families face a devastating reality: Their child has a rare disease, but they won’t know it until it’s too late for effective intervention. Thirty percent ...
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026, signed by Trump on Feb. 3, includes a provision reinstating the Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act and reviving the rare pediatric disease (RPD) ...
A newly developed AI tool can dramatically speed up the search for the genetic causes of rare diseases, a process that often ...
Families push for awareness and research as no FDA-approved cure currently exists for the progressive neurological disorder ...
This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. The first nine days of Jorie Kraus’s life followed a pattern: problem, solution. Problem, solution. Problem: Jorie was ...
Rare Disease Day began in 2008, launched in Europe by EURORDIS to shine a light on millions living with conditions that were often misunderstood, misdiagnosed or ignored. Nearly two decades later, the ...
In medicine, “rare” is often used to describe conditions that affect relatively few people. But when you work in healthcare long enough—especially at the very beginning of life—you realize rare ...
Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is a rare inherited disease that causes progressive muscle weakness and wasting in ...