SAN FRANCISCO -- As a young pediatrician in San Francisco, Priscilla Chan said she would feel embarrassed when she would walk into a young patient's room and not know anything about the rare disease ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has selected Abeona Therapeutics’ ABO-503 gene therapy for X-linked retinoschisis ...

This summer in Chicago, the Field Museum is turning up the heat - and the chills - with its new exhibit, featuring a rare specimen not seen anywhere else in U.S. The "Reptiles Alive" exhibit opens ...

Florida State University's Institute for Pediatric Rare Diseases (IPRD) and Sunshine Genetics Pilot Program received $7.5 million in state funding for a newborn genetic screening pilot program. The ...

This article is brought to you by LCMC Health. “My mother died before I was a doctor,” said Dr. Mary A. Hobbs-Maluccio, a surgical oncologist at LCMC Health’s East Jefferson General Hospital (EJGH).