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Catalysts for Change and Guidance for Growth: Terri’s Story

Catalysts for Change and Guidance for Growth: Terri’s Story

  • Post author:Rebekah
  • Post published:July 15, 2019
  • Post category:Rare Disease

Terri considers herself “very lucky”. In the 80s her paternal grandmother and her grandmother’s two sisters were diagnosed with ovarian cancer. In the 90s, her family entered into the BRCA1…

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Celebrate Gastroschisis Awareness Month with Avery’s Angels Foundation

Celebrate Gastroschisis Awareness Month with Avery’s Angels Foundation

  • Post author:Jean Martell
  • Post published:July 15, 2019
  • Post category:Gastroschisis/Rare Disease

July is Gastroschisis Awareness Month! Thanks to the great work of the Avery's Angels Gastroschisis Foundation, there are a number of ways and resources to make the most out of…

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Mystery: A Paralysis That Occurs in Children Every-Other-Year

Mystery: A Paralysis That Occurs in Children Every-Other-Year

  • Post author:Rose Duesterwald
  • Post published:July 15, 2019
  • Post category:Acute flaccid myelitis/West Nile virus/Zika Virus

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) is urging doctors and researchers to investigate and to collect new data before the disease strikes again. An article in Ars Technica reports that…

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New Rare Disease Discovery, Made Possible By Research

New Rare Disease Discovery, Made Possible By Research

  • Post author:Jean Martell
  • Post published:July 15, 2019
  • Post category:Rare Disease

The San Francisco Chronicle had a pretty neat story about how one man's post-cancer neurological issues lead to a so-rare-it's-still-unnamed disease diagnosis. And tracking how we got to the movement…

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Columbus Dispatch Spotlights Young Man with Phenylketonuria
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Columbus Dispatch Spotlights Young Man with Phenylketonuria

  • Post author:Jean Martell
  • Post published:July 15, 2019
  • Post category:Phenylketonuria

Everyone processes their rare disease (or really ANY disease) diagnosis differently. When 23-year-old Blaide Woodburn was diagnosed with phenylketonuria, it sparked in him an interest in health and science that…

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Florida State Football Team Hosts Fundraising Event for Rare Disease Research

Florida State Football Team Hosts Fundraising Event for Rare Disease Research

  • Post author:Jean Martell
  • Post published:July 15, 2019
  • Post category:Rare Disease

Any Noles fans? Well, prepare to love them even more. Last weekend, players on the Florida Statue University Seminoles football team participated in FSU’s annual “Lift for Life” event, which raises…

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