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Training with continuous positive airway pressure therapy, known as CPAP, may help to normalize speech abnormalities in children with Pompe disease, a small pilot study shows. Certain outcomes, including the speech intelligibility score (SIS), “were significantly improved” over the course of the six-month study, but as two of the…
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Global Genes has partnered with the Rare Disease Diversity Coalition (RDDC) to advance health equity for rare disease patients and caregivers in underrepresented communities of color. “For rare disease patients, there are many challenges — and for people of color with a rare disease, these challenges are compounded…
The Rare Disease Diversity Coalition (RDDC) awarded $600,000 in grants to ease the disparities faced by rare disease patients of color. These Impact Rare Disease Solution grants will go five RDDC steering committee working groups, which aim to identify problems for rare disease communities and advocate for solutions. The five…
Columnist Keara Engle highlights the activities her son, who has infantile-onset Pompe disease, likes to do.
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