A young girl with a rare disease is preparing for a lengthy road to recovery. She’s hoping to decorate her hospital room with ...

Researchers provided a long-awaited and rare genetic diagnosis in a child with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a type of ...

Charleigh Pollock, 9, is being treated for a terminal neurological disorder known as Batten disease with twice-monthly infusions of a drug that costs about $1 million per year.

"During this time, I realized there was something scarier than death. I thought I might be stuck like this forever." View ...

Litchfield fourth-grader Sam Dougherty has never met 3-year-old June Rudd. They probably haven’t even crossed paths because June often spends her days and weeks in a hospital room, dealing ...

Patient advocacy groups warned that delays in implementing India's rare disease policy have left many, including children, in a life-or-death crisis, urging immediate government intervention to ...

A man claims that the AI chatbot ChatGPT correctly diagnosed his condition of severe Rhabdomyolysis, prompting him to seek urgent medical attention and potentially saving his life. This rare ...

It's been 10 years since Jeanne was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease, a condition that currently affects more than 400,000 Australians. With her colourful costumes and larger than life personality, ...

Thus, there has historically been little financial incentive for pharma companies to develop drugs to treat rare diseases. 2 Whilst a rare disease is defined as affecting under 200,000 patients in ...

He turned to a colleague in the Texas Health system and ended up having triple bypass surgery for coronary artery disease. DALLAS - A medical assistant who is also an amputee found himself at the ...

CONWAY, S.C. (WKRC) - A lawsuit claims a man died from Legionnaires' disease after he soaked in a bacteria-infested hot tub. According to WBTW, 72-year-old Wayne Van Der Plaats was hospitalized in ...

A man with a muscle-wasting disease is pleased ... Jeremy Bray, who has Type 2 spinal muscular atrophy — a rare degenerative disease that has gradually robbed him of the ability to move ...