Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs: Recent Blogs

In June, 2014, my book, entitled Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs: Keys to Understanding and Treating the Common Diseases was published by Elsevier. The book builds the argument that our best chance of curing the common diseases will come from studying and curing the rare diseases. Over the past several weeks, I've been posting to several different blogs on the subject of rare diseases. Here is the list of my rare disease posts, with links: Developing Diagnostic Tests for Common Diseases: Role of the Rare DiseasesRare Diseases Account for Subsets of Common DiseasesPhenocopy Mimics of Rare Diseases: Lessons for the Common DiseasesPhenocopy Diseases: Their Relationship to Rare Diseases and Common DiseasesWhat Rare Diseases Teach Us About the Cellular Basis of AgingWhat is the Fundamental Biological Process that Causes Aging?Wrinkling and Sagging are Chronic Toxic Processes Not Directly Caused by AgingDisease Complexity: Rare Diseases and Common DiseasesCase Reports of Rare Diseases Have General ValueWhen Rare Diseases and Common Diseases Converge to Same Clinical PictureRare Diseases and Common Diseases can Converge to the Same Clinical ConditionsRare Disease Legislation in the U.S.Definition of Rare DiseaseDeveloping Diagnostic Tests for Common Diseases: Role of the Rare DiseasesRare Diseases Account for Subsets of Common DiseasesImproving Clinical Trials by Focusing on Rare DiseasesRare Diseases of Unknown OriginRare Diseases are Sentinels for the Common DiseasesBiological Di...

Source: Specified Life - July 7, 2014 Category: Pathologists Tags: clinical trials common diseases complex diseases disease advocates funding opportunities genetic disease orphan diseases orphan drugs rare cancers rare disease organizations rare diseases Source Type: blogs