Shortly after unexpectedly releasing her latest album “Harlequin,” Lady Gaga is getting back into, well, Gaga mode with the ...

One of about 150 people known to have a rare condition that causes rapid aging, he sought to raise awareness and participated ...

This month, Sentara Health and Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University launched the Sentara-EVMS Comprehensive Sickle Cell Program in Norfolk on the campus of ...

Carter Bresee was born with lamellar ichthyosis (LI) a rare genetic skin disorder in which the body creates skin cells that ...

A global team of researchers has made a groundbreaking discovery that saves the lives of patients suffering from toxic epidermal necrolysis. This rare but often fatal reaction to common medications ...

Nager syndrome (NS) is an extremely rare disease that causes developmental problems and anomalies in facial bone structures and limbs. While the causative gene is known, its underlying mechanisms ...

Sam Gallo is the founder of the Louisiana Diabetes Association and the man responsible for centralizing research and data for ...

Often forced to become experts on their own treatment, rare-disease patients are modeling the collective care and mutual aid networks that can help ensure everyone's long-term survival.

MILAN, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Sammy Basso, who was the longest living survivor of the rare genetic disease progeria, has died at the age of 28, the Italian Progeria Association said on Sunday.

Photo: Karangu Muraya, Agnetta Erupe. Embakasi: Pain as 5-year-old child dies in school, body found in dustbin Speaking to TUKO.co.ke, Erupe noted Akale's rare skin disease when she was in Grade 2.

Islanders are often susceptible to rare diseases because of a lack of genetic ... which causes fragile skin which blisters easily. Infants born with the disease are often referred to as ...