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Educating yourself about rare diseases can help spread the word and empathy.
A rare disease is technically defined (in the European Union) as a disease that is found in fewer than 5 people per every 10,000 people. ...
The Journal concluded that the average cost burden for a rare disease patient is $266,000 per year, compared to $26,000 for more common diseases. The study demonstrates several additional costs ...
In Japan, the legal definition of a rare disease is one that affects fewer than 50,000 patients in Japan, or about 1 in 2,500 people. [8] The European Commission on Public Health defines rare diseases as "life-threatening or chronically debilitating diseases which are of such low prevalence that special combined efforts are needed to address ...
Mystery Diagnosis is a television docudrama series that aired on Discovery Health Channel and OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.Each episode focuses on two or more individuals who have struggled with obscure medical ailments, and their quest for a diagnosis.
Hanahaki disease (花吐き病 (Japanese); 하나하키병 (Korean); 花吐病 (Chinese)) is a fictional disease where the victim of unrequited or one-sided love begins to vomit or cough up the petals and flowers of a flowering plant growing in their lungs, which will eventually grow large enough to render breathing impossible if left untreated.
Although it has been defined as an extension of pneumoconiosis, there is no scientific evidence for a similar disease related to volcanic silica particle exposures. [ 8 ] Subsequently, the word was used in Frank Scully 's puzzle book Bedside Manna , after which time, members of the N.P.L. campaigned to include the word in major dictionaries.
Ribose-5-phosphate isomerase deficiency (RPID) is a rare human disorder caused by mutations in ribose-5-phosphate isomerase, an enzyme of the pentose phosphate pathway.With only four known cases – all diagnosed between 1984 and 2019 – RPI deficiency is the second rarest disease, with Fields condition being the rarest, affecting two known individuals, Catherine and Kirstie Fields.