Biotech stock KalVista has soared recently, as the firm looks to fundamentally change the treatment landscape for HAE ...

Salman Khan shared his health struggles on The Great Indian Kapil Show. He is battling trigeminal neuralgia, a brain aneurysm ...

According to most scientists and clinicians, there are around 7,000 different rare diseases. However, this estimate can vary from 5,000 to 8,000 rare diseases, depending on the source.

In recognition of Rare Disease Day, Dr Kamran Iqbal, head of medical affairs and patient advocacy in global rare diseases at Chiesi UK, discussed with pharmaphorum the company’s evolving role in ...

In the world of infectious diseases, hantavirus remains relatively obscure until outbreaks occur. This virus, although rare, has the potential to cause severe respiratory and kidney diseases.

Rare diseases impact millions, yet most lack treatment options. This post explores the inequities rare disease patients face and the urgent need to accelerate access to life-changing medicines.

Lanchester sees statistics as a product of the same Enlightenment that gave birth to the United States—“numbers created by the state to help it understand itself and ultimately to govern itself.” And ...

A major new study has revealed that hundreds of Scottish sarcoma patients are waiting six months or longer for diagnosis of the rare and often deadly disease due to 'systematic failings' in care.

Gunreet Kaur has a rare inherited condition which can be fatal. A child with a life-threatening disease has become the ...

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or broken heart syndrome, is a rare stress-induced heart condition that is prevalent in women, but ...