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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Medical news 2013: A multi-million Euro initiative is bringing together researchers from across the world to develop new diagnostic tools and new treatments for people with rare diseases and to connect research data in this area on a global scale. The EU has announced 38 million Euro funding for research towards new treatments and for the development of a central global rare disease hub involving 70 institutions that will allow scientists to share data from their genomics research projects. Meanwhile, there are many medical scientists who are working on gene therapy for treating orphan diseases like Fabry disease. Scientific researchers have stated that almost all the rare diseases are caused by changes in genes are are thus called genetic diseases. Official medical statistics have shown that rare diseases affect one person in every 17. 80%. According to researchers, there are more that 7, 000 identified rare diseases. Some rare diseases are nephrotic syndrome and conditions like Huntington's disease, ataxia and muscular dystrophy...
