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2 unusual facts about Rare disease


Rare disease

The first Rare Disease Day was held in Europe and Canada in February 2008 to raise awareness for rare diseases.

Siren interactive

Siren Interactive is an agency specializing in relationship marketing for rare disorder therapies.


Mastocytosis

Mastocytosis is a group of rare disorders of both children and adults caused by the presence of too many mast cells (mastocytes) and CD34+ mast cell precursors in a person's body.


see also

Fibrodysplasia

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, a rare disease in which fibrous tissue such as muscle turns to bone when damaged.

IPEX syndrome

IPEX (immunodysregulation polyendocrinopathy enteropathy X-linked syndrome) is a rare disease linked to the dysfunction of the transcription factor FOXP3, widely considered to be the master regulator of the regulatory T cell lineage.

Lacy Neff

In 2013, Lacy was diagnosed with a rare disease called Amyloidosis, which was attacking his heart.

Syndrome X

The otherwise unidentifiable rare disease (named "Syndrome X" by her physicians) that afflicted Brooke Greenberg and only about half a dozen other people in the world, none of whom have aged mentally or physically since young childhood, despite living for years or decades.

Tamara Natalie Madden

Madden became ill with a rare disease for women and African-Americans called IgA nephropathy in 1997 and suffered immensely during that time.

The Cake Eaters

Kristen Stewart is featured as Georgia, a young girl with Friedreich's ataxia, a rare disease for which there is currently no cure.

Troy Smith

Smith was scheduled to start in the third preseason game of the 2008 season, but became ill with a rare disease called Lemierre's syndrome.