August is commemorated as Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) awareness month. SMA, a progressive disease that robs affected people of their ability to walk, breathe and swallow is the leading cause of inherited death in babies. It has an incidence of around 1 in 6000. Rare diseases like SMA are difficult to handle and live with. The advent of revolutionary newer therapies has..

We Care For SMA: Fighting Spinal Muscular Atrophy Organised At Bangalore Baptist Hospital The world over, August is commemorated as Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) awareness month. SMA, a progressive disease that robs a?ected people of their ability to walk, breathe..

Abstract Rare diseases are those diseases that are not seen frequently in a population. There are about 7000 rare diseases that have been identified worldwide, and 80% of them are caused by genetic changes. Since a small number of individuals..

Of all cases of rare diseases across the globe, around one-third occur in India. Yet, these diseases—‘rare’ because they affect a relatively small number of people—are hardly given attention in the country. With its resource constraints, India continues to lag..

Since the diagnosis, on an average, the parents have been spending close to ₹50,000 every month and Palaash has now been advised to undergo surgery that will cost close to ₹20 lakh. Four-year old Palaash was detected with a rare genetic abnormality..

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Since the diagnosis, on an average, the parents have been spending close to ₹50,000 every month and Palaash has now been advised to undergo surgery that will cost close to ₹20 lakh. Four-year old Palaash was detected with a rare genetic abnormality..

The total amount of donations channelled to the rare diseases portal is Rs 1.18 lakh till date, Bharti Pravin Pawar, minister of state for health and family welfare, told the Lok Sabha on March 25 A government initiative to crowdfund..

In places like Saharanpur and Buldhana, a rare genetic disease has been taking away control of bodies, lives and livelihoods from entire neighbourhoods. Against all odds, a few scientists and doctors are determined to ease the pain. When I met..

Opportunity to be speaker along with Dr K Vijay Raghavan – Principal Scientific Advisor to Govt of India and he was also one who inagurated ORDI. This discussion of “Status of Rare Diseases Today” was organized by ORF (  Observer Research..

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Aimed at raising money for treatment of rare diseases that need expensive and life-long treatment and affect a small percentage of the population News:- 1)Platform launched on August 10; 31 campaigns listed so far that need to raise more than..

The IGICH will face a serious difficulty from August 2021, the High Court observed on June 18 this year. BENGALURU: In an ongoing case in the Karnataka High Court over the treatment of patients with Lysosomal Storage Diseases (LSDs), it..

Attended RDI Members Meeting on the Global State of the Art Resource for Rare Diseases (SoA)...