In metastasised or relapsed Ewing sarcoma, therapeutic success is often difficult to achieve. According to a study, this could be due to different biomarker variants.
Marie Curie is associated with many subjects, and rightly so: With two Nobel prizes won within eight years of each other, she remains one of the most famous scientists of the 20th century.
Nausea, difficulty swallowing, headache: Such general symptoms can also hide a rare disease. Some important differential diagnoses.
Rare diseases are often diagnosed late. Collaboration between disciplines can help to refer affected individuals for possible therapy.
Medical student Chiara Cumella suffers from 13 rare diseases and constantly battles not only her illness, but also for her dream of becoming a doctor.
Can the creation of a common data space ensure better care for people with rare diseases? This and more was discussed at the Tagesspiegel Expert Forum.
A gene mutation can trigger XLH - a rare, life-long progressive disease. Skeletal deformities, dental problems, and microsomia are just some of its many symptoms. How to treat it?
A young man shows up at emergency with purulent tonsillitis. The examination leads to four suspected diagnoses. Which one would you support?
Currently, only a few hundred of the approximately 7,000 rare diseases have an approved treatment option. Gene therapies play a special role, but how far has research progressed?
A person's biological sex sometimes influences how pronounced a rare disease is. We present some indications and how they differ between the sexes.
What if the body no longer does what it is supposed to? The stiff-person syndrome has serious effects on the muscles of those affected. So far, there is no causal therapy.
The fashion collection "The Unwearable Collection" shows what it means to be affected by GPP. The collection visualises the GPP patients' experiences in an innovative awareness campaign.
Exercise reduces cardiovascular mortality, but in rare cases sudden cardiac death can occur during exercise. How can this risk be minimised?
Doctors who treat infants often spot skin rashes, most of which are harmless. But a rare disease also starts like this - and should be recognised quickly.
Viruses circulate all year round. The fact that there are more people with colds in the cold season has not only to do with staying indoors - but with the temperature in our nose.
Recent data allow a more precise quantification of the malignancy risk of a Janus kinase inhibitor, which has been under discussion for some time.
An infant who received personalised RNA therapy for a genetic form of epilepsy died after developing hydrocephalus. The side effect has been reported in other treatments.
Intoxicating substances are increasingly coming into focus in the treatment of mentally ill people. This upcoming paradigm shift was discussed in a recent neurology congress.
This "Large Language Model" can generate text. Is this a simple memorization or the beginning of reasoning? When confronted with medical MCQs however, LLMs does show limits.
ALS, is also called Charcot disease, after the French neurologist who described it, or Lou Gehrig's disease, after a famous baseball player. It is rare and fast, possibly leading quickly to death.