Written by Valaree DonFrancesco on November 24, 2021
Chris Brannigan, a major in the British Army, took off his boots for a 1,200-mile barefoot walk down the eastern seaboard of the United States in an effort to raise funds for the creation of a gene therapy treatment that could help patients like his daughter Hasti, battling Cornelia de… Read More
Written by Rohan Narayanan on November 18, 2021
As Congress continues to debate the policies to include in the final version of the Build Back Better Act, the House of Representatives has inexplicably chosen to take aim at one of the most vulnerable populations in our nation: the rare disease community. The Build Back Better Act, H.R…. Read More
Written by Valaree DonFrancesco on November 10, 2021
On the show today, Kam Redlawsk is a designer, illustrator, writer, and disability advocate. After five years of being consistently misdiagnosed and not taken seriously, she was diagnosed correctly with a condition called GNE Myopathy, which is a very, very rare degenerative muscle wasting disorder. There’s… Read More
Written by Valaree DonFrancesco on November 10, 2021
On the show today, Kam Redlawsk is a designer, illustrator, writer, and disability advocate. After five years of being consistently misdiagnosed and not taken seriously, she was diagnosed correctly with a condition called GNE Myopathy, which is a very, very rare degenerative muscle wasting disorder. There’s… Read More
Written by Valaree DonFrancesco on October 27, 2021
Joining me today is Lewis Freese, an incredible young man fresh off the heels of being diagnosed with a rare disease during the pandemic, no less. (I mean, not that there’s ever a good time for this to happen but COME ON!) The condition is called… Read More