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Looking for Zebras: Listening to Patients, Healing the Health System

When the health ecosystem discounts patient experience, it fails individuals and incurs added costs. Delayed diagnoses lead to prolonged suffering, reduced quality of life, and higher medical expenses.

Rare – Always Present and Never Forgotten

The experience of attending Rare Disease Day at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) exceeded the confines of the definition for rare and instead should be more appropriately defined as extraordinary shares a new Medika author.

Reevaluating Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: How Vascular EDS Patients Are Left Behind

EDS Subtyping May Not Be a Harmless Convention, But a Recipe for Patient Danger

Treating Rare Diseases: The Challenge of Access

Although rare by definition, the collective impact of rare diseases is anything but insignificant. In the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region – home to over half of...