When most people think of dangerous infections, they picture bacteria or viruses. But for infectious disease specialists like ...

Oliver Timmis explores the problems associated with securing funding for rare disease research and questions why more funding isn't available in this space. It's difficult to research rare diseases.

Betsy Arakawa died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare rodent-spread disease with a mortality rate up to 50% in the American Southwest, officials said.

“One of the main challenges with diagnosing rare diseases is that health systems are simply not designed to detect them,” Noam Alon tells ISRAEL21c. Alon is the CEO and cofounder of Impilo, an Israeli ...

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 ...

Rare Disease Day, recognized globally on the last day of February since 2008, is intended to raise awareness to the approximately 7,000 known rare diseases affecting 300 million people worldwide.