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Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with the local representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross on Monday, the military-backed government said, a rare moment of contact with the outside world for the Nobel laureate who has been held out of public view since the military seized power in 2021

Fox News senior medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel discusses the alarming rise of Powassan virus, a rare tick-borne disease, with 15 cases reported this year, following a record 76 in 2025. He warns parents about checking children for ticks after summer camp and emphasizes the lack of specific treatment or vaccine. Siegel details prevention tips…

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), there are more than 30 million people living with a rare disease in the country, around half of whom are children. An analysis by Allucent indicated that in 2025, rare disease studies accounted for more than a quarter of clinical trial activity

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When most people think about places advancing rare disease diagnostics, sequencing, and treatments, big U.S. centers like Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine or Boston Children’s Hospital come to mind. But clinician scientists Vorasuk Shotelersuk, MD, and Shahida Moosa, MD, PhD, are showing what rare disease genomics can look like when it is driven from…

For more than a decade, chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR T) therapy has transformed the treatment landscape for certain blood cancers. Now, researchers believe the next major leap might come from combining CAR T with powerful gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR (which stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) and TALEN (which stands for…

Megan Kaverman knew something was wrong with her. At 18, she had started to experience some weight gain and shortness of breath, but her family doctor “never figured out what was going on.” Soon, the symptoms became so commonplace that she barely noticed them. 

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Although each rare disease affects only a small number of people, collectively they represent one of the world’s largest unmet healthcare challenges. More than 7,000-8,000 rare diseases have been identified globally, yet effective treatments exist for only around 5-10 per cent of them, according to IQVIA. Together, these conditions affect an estimated 350-475 million people…

Health officials are warning residents about a rare tick-borne illness after three cases were reported on Long Island