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Doctor Detectives Take on Rare Diseases
Q'ed Up
English - December 09, 2018 11:00 - 6 minutes - 11.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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They're the last hope for many families who have nowhere else to turn.
Individual rare diseases are very uncommon, but taken together into a single category, they afflict one in 20 people. All across the country, teams of medical sleuths are cracking these mystery cases and providing hope for families including some right here in the Bay Area.
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