In honor of Rare Disease Day on February 28, 2025, we will publish a series of posts throughout the month on As Prescribed and Health Law Scan, focusing on issues impacting the rare disease community.

Pitts, a former FDA associate commissioner, is president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest and a visiting professor at the University of Paris School of Medicine. Over the summer, the ...

Almost by definition, rare diseases are so unusual information about them isn't readily accessible—not only for patients chasing a diagnosis but for the physicians trying to help them. HRA Pharma ...

Coming on the heels of an advisory committee in which the U.S. FDA and its independent advisers grappled with trying to fit an ultra-rare disease development program into the confines of the agency’s ...

REMHub will develop, test and pilot novel technologies for the exploration and primary production of rare earth elements and for recovering them from side streams to enhance supply security of REEs ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech ...

Writing evolves to become simpler and more efficient, according to a new study based on the analysis of an isolated West African writing system. The world's very first invention of writing took place ...