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March 5, 2019 News by Susan Boswell

NIH Rare Disease Day Highlights Joint Networks Advancing Array of Research

Rare diseases affect about 30 million Americans — roughly the same number as those with type 2 diabetes. Yet only 5 percent of the estimated 7,000 rare diseases known to science have cures or treatments approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Raising awareness of those illnesses and highlighting…

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