What is a rare disease?
There is a practical definition, and what I would call an "official designation." The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defines a rare disease as occurring in less than 200,000 people in the United States. That means that as few as five people, or as many as 200,000, could have ...
Rare diseases haven’t always received the attention they deserve because they affect relatively few people. What makes a disease rare is how prevalent it is—that is, the number of individuals living with it. In theUnited States, a rare diseaseis one that fewer than 200,000 people live wit...
The National Institute of Health classifies a rare or orphan disease as one with fewer than 200,000 cases in the country. The European Union defines it as any disease that affects five or fewer people out of every 10,000. Whichever definition you use, the answer is the same: Thousands of...
But these days, we do have an approved gene therapy, and also a lot of clinical trials focusing on gene therapy for a variety of Inherited Retinal Diseases. So on this Rare Disease Day, I think the future of Inherited Retinal Diseases as it comes to gene therapy is bright...
Before training, you have an algorithm. After training, you have a model. For example,machine learning is widely used in healthcarefor tasks including medical imaging analysis, predictive analytics, and disease diagnosis. Machine learning models are ideally suited to analyze medical images, such as...
Creating the right training data set is one of the trickiest and most expensive aspects of building ML tools that work the way you want them to. The difficulty of finding certain types of data can often generate an unintended source of bias. For example, the Tibetan mastiff is a rare bree...
Conditions such as pleural plaques, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and interstitial lung disease are among other illnesses associated with asbestos exposure. What is mesothelioma? Mesothelioma is a rare and aggressive cancer. One of the primary mesothelioma causes is asbestos exposure. The cancer ...
The newest weight loss drug approved by the FDA is Zepbound (tirzepatide), a dual GIP/GLP-1 (glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide and glucagon-like peptide-1) agonist. Zepbound was approved on Nov. 8, 2023 and is given as a once-weekly subcutaneous (under the skin) injection in ...
A drug is a substance used to prevent or cure a disease or ailment or to alleviate its symptoms. In the U.S., drugs may be bought over-the-counter or by doctor's prescription.