Category: Rare Diseases

Rare Together

LDA Research consultant, Andrew Grant, highlights the shared common experiences of rare disease patients discussed in our Rare Together podcasts

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In Overtime

Today, Dr. David Fajgenbaum celebrates being in remission for ten and a half years from the rare Castleman disease. LDA Research’s director Lucy Doorbar talks to him about how he discovered a treatment for his disease, and the importance for pharmaceutical companies to understand the patient experience.

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Rare Disease Girl

When Taylor Coffman went to give birth, she knew there would be risks and challenges, but she didn’t expect to trigger a rare disease that almost killed her multiple times. Luckily she survived to be a mother and advocate for all patients.

Following our Rare Together podcast with Taylor Coffman about living with the aggressive rare disease atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome or Complement-Mediated Pregnancy-Induced Thrombotic Microangiopathy, we asked her how to make rare disease voices heard on a larger and more lasting scale.

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