Search Results for: Rare Diseases

December 1, 2019December 1, 2019

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Rare Diseases: Is the Future Brighter?

Publication date: Nov 27, 2019 The amount of data collected and managed in (bio)medicine is ever-increasing. Thus, there is a need to rapidly and efficiently collect, analyze, and characterize all ... Read more

October 26, 2019October 26, 2019

Roche in rare diseases | What is Huntington’s disease?

Huntington's Disease Media

Publication date: Oct 25, 2019 Mai-Lise Nguyen, Senior Group Director, Patient Partnerships answers the question ‘What is Huntington’s disease’? Subscribe to our YouTube channel now: https://www.youtube.com/user/roche?sub_confirmation=1 Get in touch with ... Read more

October 17, 2019October 17, 2019

The use or generation of biomedical data and existing medicines to discover and establish new treatments for patients with rare diseases – recommendations of the IRDiRC Data Mining and Repurposing Task Force.

Precision Medicine Literature

Publication date: Oct 15, 2019 The number of available therapies for rare diseases remains low, as fewer than 6% of rare diseases have an approved treatment option. The International Rare ... Read more

September 21, 2019September 21, 2019

Ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) in rare diseases: a landscape analysis from funders.

Precision Medicine Literature

Publication date: Sep 19, 2019 Recent interest in personalized medicine has highlighted the importance of research in ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI). Issues in ELSI research may be magnified ... Read more

July 21, 2019July 21, 2019

European Initiative Targets Diagnosis, Treatment of Rare Diseases

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Publication date: Jul 18, 2019 We need to do much more to develop effective treatments and improve diagnosis,” Carlos Moedas, the EU’s commissioner for research, science and innovation, said during ... Read more

March 13, 2019March 13, 2019

Moral Dilemmas Complicate Treatment of Rare Diseases, Says Israeli Bioethicist

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Publication date: Mar 12, 2019 But rare diseases and the expensive therapies needed to treat them – particularly in an age of scarce economic resources – almost always entail -tragic ... Read more

December 7, 2018December 7, 2018

Hackathons on Rare Diseases – Persistent Systems teams with Mount Sinai for 3rd Health Hackathon

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Publication date: Dec 06, 2018 Pitch ideas, form teams, get expert advice and build a solution – just a typical weekend! Bringing together likeminded individuals with complementary expertise in clinical ... Read more

October 12, 2018October 12, 2018

Utilization of Electronic Medical Records and Biomedical Literature to Support the Diagnosis of Rare Diseases Using Data Fusion and Collaborative Filtering Approaches.

Precision Medicine Literature

Publication date: Oct 10, 2018 In the United States, a rare disease is characterized as the one affecting no more than 200,000 patients at a certain period. Patients suffering from ... Read more

May 31, 2018May 31, 2018

#ECRD2018 – Genome Editing Might Be ‘Cure’ for Rare Diseases But Ethical Guidelines Needed, Panel Says

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Publication date: May 30, 2018 This post was originally published on this site Should scientists have the right to edit the genes of future generations to eliminate hundreds, if not ... Read more

April 13, 2018April 13, 2018

NIH Agency Pioneers Collaborative Research into Rare Diseases

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Publication date: Apr 12, 2018 This post was originally published on this site A little-known government entity within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is helping to lead U.S. efforts ... Read more