Rokhaya Ndiaye Diallo, is raising the alarm over the financial burden of diagnosing and treating rare diseases in Senegal and is calling for a dedicated national plan.The diagnosis and management of r ...

Scientists have found that a special component in some people's blood provides them with natural protection against malaria. A recent study has demonstrated that a genetic variant named rs112233623-T ...

Scientists at Gladstone Institutes have flipped the traditional approach to finding potential treatments for deadly diseases.

For too long, the promise of personalized therapies has been tantalizingly close, yet frustratingly out of reach for ...

Genes are short sections of DNA that determine an animal’s traits—everything from coat color and claw strength to body shape ...

Rare disease day is observed annually on the last day of February to spread awareness on certain conditions that can impact on patients lives.

The Food and Drug Administration is making it possible for pharmaceutical companies to produce bespoke medicines for individual patients, an effort to revolutionize the standard of care for rare ...

A panel of physicians, biotech leaders and patient advocates took aim at the FDA during a Senate hearing Thursday on how the ...

One of the reasons why rare disease, medications take so long to get to the clinic is because we have very specific ...

At an event on Monday, the agency officially unveiled long-awaited draft guidance meant to help speed the development of bespoke treatments for extremely rare diseases.

The Food and Drug Administration aims to evaluate treatments for rare diseases based on plausible evidence that they would ...

While all cats are said to have nine lives, some breeds are naturally hardier than others. Breeds shaped by natural evolution ...