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Rare diseases in Europe: does data sharing hold the key to progress?
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Smart Health looks at how the EU's new European Health Data Space aims to improve care and treatment for patients suffering from rare diseases through better data and information sharing.
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Rare diseases: "Recognition of a disability is still complicated"
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Diagnosis and treatment of rare illnesses can often be complicated due to the condition's very nature. Caroline suffers from a rare genetic disease called Stargardt Syndrome. Smart Health spoke to her about what it's like to live with a rare disease.
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One of South America's largest cemeteries fumigated for dengue fever
Health brigades spray one of South America's largest cemeteries in Lima to eradicate the dengue-transmitting mosquito and collect larvae in an attempt to control a new outbreak of the endemic disease in Peru, which has killed about 30 people this year.