Mike Ingram

Jul 23, 2024 | centerwatch.com | Mike Ingram

Rare disease research: Small studies can have a large impact on medical knowledge Rare disease advocacy groups often use the phrase “rare is not rare” to drive home the point that although individual diseases and conditions might affect only a small number of people, together they constitute a large patient population. Another way of putting it, according to a 2023 paper published by researchers at the Mayo Clinic: “Rare diseases are individually rare but collectively common.”