News that broke last week involving renowned North Korea expert Andrei Lankov has rattled the foreign community in South Korea. The Russian-born ...

A new experimental treatment for children with a hard-to-treat form of epilepsy is safe and can reduce seizures dramatically, ...

From Air Jordan 15 variations to the Nike Double Team, here are the craziest sneaker finds on Ebay.

Her son Ben, she learned, had mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) type 2, or Hunter Syndrome, one of a group of rare diseases that is ...

Parry-Romberg Syndrome (PRS), a rare autoimmune disorder that gradually destroys soft tissue on one side of the face.

There is a process to a patient being diagnosed with a rare condition and then collaborating with their physician, if they are fortunate enough to have that opporunity. One recent qualitative study ...

This Ice Age pair of hunter-gatherers were both shorter than average for their population – one of them markedly so – and now we finally know why. A team of researchers from Europe re-examined the ...

This week’s Capitol Hill meetings come on the heels of rejections of ultra-rare disease drugs developed by Biohaven and Saol Therapeutics. Physicians and patient groups implored the FDA to expedite ...

Congratulations to all the winners of the 62nd Filmfare Awards 2017. Here's a full list of winners, best actors, films, singers, short films and more.

Researchers at the Sanford Stem Cell Institute have taken the fight against rare diseases to the lab, to patients’ bedsides ...

Earth’s vertebrate diversity may be far richer than anyone realized. A sweeping analysis of more than 300 studies suggests that for every known fish, bird, reptile, amphibian, or mammal species, there ...

"It was just really hard to breathe," says Sarah Carroll, recalling the earliest symptoms of idiopathic subglottic stenosis (iSGS). "It felt like there was something in my throat that was stopping me ...