Definition of rare diseasesOrphan diseasesIn the U.S., rare diseases are disorders that affect fewer than 200,000 individuals. There are about 7000 known rare diseases affecting, in aggregate, 25–30million Americans. Many of the rare diseases are caused by single gene mutations, often occurring...
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Also discussed are profits made by drug companies concerning rare disease research.RemuzziClinicalGiuseppeClinicalGarattiniClinicalSilvioClinicalLancetRare diseases: what’s next?. G. Remuzzi,S. Garattini. The Lancet . 2008Remuzzi G, Garattini S. Rare diseases: what's next. Lancet. 2008; 371(9629...
On this Rare Diseases Day, I'm really excited about the future of Inherited Retinal Diseases. It used to be that Inherited Retinal Diseases were a type of diagnosis one was given, and there was not much hope in terms of treatment. A lot of patients would progressively lose visi...
Most patients with rare diseases are very short, even as adults. There are many reasons for this. Some are born small because they don’t grow well in the womb. After birth, they don't have the growth to catch up, so they grow very short, which is even more heartbreaking for their...
Many people tend to ignore existing problems in the present because of their minor possibility of occurring. Rare Gene Diseases (RGD) are one of those problems, and RDG means those individuals with a prevalence of less than 5 in 10,000 people. Cases like these may seem scarce, but the imp...
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Coats’ eye disease is considered an idiopathic condition. Researchers don’t know exactly what causes it. This condition is one of a number of rare eye diseases that result from blood vessel problems in your eye. Similar conditions include Norrie disease and persistent fetal vasculature (PFV). ...
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Eventually, such toxins cause damage at the cellular level and lead to diseases like cancer. When smoked foods are cooked at high temperatures, the nitrates are converted to the much more dangerous nitrites. [Note: By pickled foods we don’t mean the fermented foods you make at home.] Soda...