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Daily update June 3, 2014
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Family Could Break GoFundMe Record to Save Child With Rare Disorder
The O'Neill family has been racing the clock to fund a cure for their 4-year-old daughter's rare, terminal disorder, and in the process, they're on track to ...
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Mother's salon, named for daughter with rare disease, offers free haircuts for special-needs kids
BARTONVILLE — Amanda Hageman and her family must cope with a genetic disorder that is known to afflict only 320 people in the world, including ...
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A wish granted for boy living with rare disease
Tay-Sachs disease is a rare, life-threatening genetic disorder. It causes progressive deterioration of nerve cells. The life expectancy for someone with ...
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Eliza raises $1 million for treatment of rare medical disorder, but next task awaits
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Eliza O'Neill has Sanfilippo syndrome, a rare degenerative disease. We first told you about Eliza last fall when her family started a foundation to pay ...
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Rare illness doesn't stop Thatcher's Radley from collegiate athletics
Caleb Radley overcame a rare disease that prevents his body from dissipating heat to wrestle for Thatcher High School. Next year, he'll wrestle for ...
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Europe Orphan Drug Pipeline Analysis 2014
Rare diseases are classified as those that affect fewer than 200,000 in the United States and less than 5 in 10,000 in the EU. The term orphan was ...
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Zebrafish model study explains clinical phenotype similarity in megalencephalic ...
This rare disease is caused by mutations in MLC1 and GlialCAM and produces megalencephaly, spasticity and ataxia in humans. A new study of the ...
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High school student in Lowell has tuberculosis
... More than 100 students and staff at Lowell High School are being tested for tuberculosis after a student was diagnosed with the now rare disease.
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Novartis Rare Blood Cancer Drug Achieves Significant Disease Control
Swiss drug giant Novartis AG (NVS: Quote) Tuesday said its investigational blood cancer drug Jakavi (ruxolitinib) achieved significant improvement in ...
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Nils K Oeijord

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Daily update June 7, 2014
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Riverside teen battles rare disease with dad by her side
After seeing several doctors at three different hospitals, she was finally diagnosed with aHUS, an ultra-rare condition where life-threatening blood clots ...
Searching for a cure for boy with rare disease neurofibromatosis
Now, at 10, he is one of an estimated 7000 Australians who live with the rare genetic condition, for which there are few treatment options and no cure.
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Family may break GoFundMe record for child with rare disorder
Research on this rare disorder has been underway for nearly the last two decades. To date, no specific treatment is listed for Sanfilippo syndrome.
UK to sequence 100000 human genomes by 2017
So common diseases maybe extended families of rare diseases. That'll require much greater stratification in individualized diagnosis and treatment.
DIA Patient Fellows Illustrate the Power of the Patient in Drug Development
The trial may result in the first treatment for the inherited neuromuscular disorder, and he muses about his experiences with a rare disease on his blog, ...
Jarvis Budd's parents have travelled to the UK to meet others affected by Fibrodysplasia Ossificans ...
... meeting families and individuals dealing with the extremely rare condition that affects about 13 people Australia wide and 800 people worldwide.
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