People sometimes asked Tiffany Fransen if she was drunk. She wishes more people had heard of her rare disorder.

Olivia Francis, 12, starred in the Nutcracker despite her diagnosis of a rare neurological condition. The Oklahoma City ...

Friedreich's ataxia (FA) is a rare but devastating genetic disorder. Those with the condition are often diagnosed between 5 and 15 years of age and live only into their 30s or 40s. There is no widely ...

Scientists from Mass General Brigham and the Broad Institute have been studying more effective ways of treating people living with Friedreich’s ataxia (FA). People with this rare and progressive ...

Scientists discovered that certain gene changes allow cells to function even when frataxin, the protein lost in Friedreich’s ataxia, is missing. Experiments in worms, human cells, and mice revealed ...

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