Patients with rare diseases are increasingly working to find and fund their own cures. But should they have to?

The virus, spread by ticks, can cause a disease that leads to swelling of the brain and permanent health problems in half of severe cases.

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Poliosis is a rare condition where hair follicles lack pigment, often seen in piebaldism, vitiligo, and alopecia areata. It's ...

Harlequin ichthyosis affects just a handful of newborns each year in the US, but the condition is unmistakable, marked by a ...

When nerve cells don’t end up in the right place during brain development, it can cause periventricular heterotopia —a ...