Frederik de Nassau died on March 1, in Paris, a day after internationally recognized Rare Disease Day, which takes place on ...

Betsy Arakawa died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare rodent-spread disease with a mortality rate up to 50% in the ...

Patient Advocacy Initiative staff speak on Notre Dame’s Rare Disease Day event and impact for the rare disease community.

Ms. Arakawa, the wife of the actor Gene Hackman, died from the effects of a disease often caused by contact with droppings ...

For Rare Disease Day, this feature explores national genomic medicine programs and recent research into rare diseases.

Gene Hackman’s wife Betsy died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a flu-like virus linked to rodent droppings. Here’s what ...

Rare Disease Day recognizes those with diseases that affect fewer than 1 in 2000 people, and there are thousands of diseases ...

Health care advocates were out in full force at the Illinois Capitol this week, urging legislators to act on everything from ...

Worries about hantavirus are spreading online after news broke that the late Gene Hackman's wife, Betsy Arakawa, had passed ...

With over 40% of all medicines in the pipeline aimed at rare diseases, the future looks positive for increasing the number of treatments available. However, as Ben Hargreaves discovers ...

Rare diseases aren’t as rare as the appellation suggests. For instance, according to the US Government Accountability Office, 30 million Americans have a rare disease, a little less than 10% of ...

66.35 years ago, on February 14, 1990, the iconic 'Pale Blue Dot' photo was captured, showing Earth as a tiny speck from 3.7 ...