In her home on the island of Kauai with her husband Chris Constantino at her side and her two children playing nearby, Nichelle Obar breaks the illusion that nothing was ever amiss in her family's slice of paradise. "It all happened so fast," she says, explaining the cascade of news and life-and-death decisions she and … Continue reading Looking Back in Gratitude: One Family, One Trial, and Moving Science Forward
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Joining the movement to fight rare diseases
THIS BLOG IS ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN AUDIO CAST It’s hard to think of something as being rare when it affects up to 30 million Americans and 300 million people worldwide. But the truth is there are more than 6,000 conditions – those affecting 200,000 people or fewer – that are considered rare. Today, … Continue reading Joining the movement to fight rare diseases