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Children's Hospital Boston Receives $25 Million Gift For World's First And Only Center For Study Of Rare Diseases (Medical News Today)

Children's Hospital Boston received a $25 million grant from The Manton Foundation to establish the world's first and only center for research on orphan diseases*.

Call for fresh tests on people with serious lung diseases (The Herald)

A charity has called for people with major lung diseases to be retested after a study found that doctors may be misdiagnosing patients.

Systems biology brings hope of speeding up drug development (EurekAlert!)

( European Science Foundation ) Almost every day brings news of an apparent breakthrough against cancer, infectious diseases, or metabolic conditions like diabetes, but these rarely translate into effective therapies or drugs, and even if they do clinical development usually takes well over a decade. One reason is that medical research is conducted in highly fragmented groups focusing on ...

Q&A: The stem cell debate (CNN)

Stem cells are considered a holy grail of medical research. They are thought to hold immense potential for treating a wide range of diseases and disabilities.

Survival of head and neck cancer patients is greatly affected by coexisting ailments (EurekAlert!)

( Washington University School of Medicine ) Current estimates for head and neck cancer survival are largely inaccurate because they widely disregard many of the most common diseases such patients have in addition to their primary cancer, says Jay Piccirillo, M.D., a head and neck specialist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.