Nicole Kear faked it for a long time. On a romantic getaway, as her boyfriend gazed at the starlit sky, she gazed at the vast darkness. Same with the twinkling lights at the tip of New York’s [...]
“Look like you can see!” Dante Priebe implores to his panicked, visually impaired sister Sofia as she struggles behind the wheel to make a three-point turn in her driveway. “I do this horrible, [...]
Sixth-grader Daniela Delgado told Connecticut lawmakers on Rare Disease Day that she lives with rare disease just like 30 million other people in the United States – and just like them – she [...]
Members of Connecticut’s General Assembly (CGA) will hear from myriad people and organizations, including Sofia Sees Hope, about patient advocacy and access to treatment during a legislative [...]
The best of both worlds – that’s how Ashlyn Lincoln describes life with her two sons: 4-year-old Gunner, who was born without vision, and 7-year-old Ace, who is sighted. “Both Ace and Gunner [...]
It’s you. It’s all about you. The journey from identifying a rare disease, to conducting studies, to approving a treatment, is long – but it always starts with the patient, and the information [...]
Two little girls – one on the East Coast and one on the West Coast – ring in this New Year with something they’ve never had before – their vision. Eight-year-old Hannah Reif of Maple Glen, PA, [...]
The lack of information on rare diseases can create difficulty in developing drugs to treat them. To help, it is important to study the natural history of rare diseases. Compared with common [...]
Mikayla Larson, a 30-year-old mother living with a rare inherited retinal disease (IRD) called Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) wants to reassure children living with the same disease that [...]
Successful clinical drug trials are a cornerstone of U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval, such as with LUXTURNA™, a ground-breaking genetic therapy that helps restore vision in Leber [...]
