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Media from 'Experiences of Rare Diseases: An Insight from Patients and Families'

Our ‘Experiences of Rare Diseases’ report generated a wide amount of media coverage, some of which is able to view by following the links below.

People with rare diseases face years of misdiagnosis, study finds’, Guardian Online, 6th December 2010

Patients with rare diseases ‘wait 10 years for diagnosis’’, Wales Online, 6th December 2010

Mother welcomes report into how families and patients cope with rare diseases’, This is Nottingham, 6th December 2010

Half of patients with rare conditions misdiagnosed, report warns’, Chemist and Druggist, 6th December 2010

Patients with rare diseases ‘wait 10 years for diagnosis’’, Check Orphan, 6th December 2010

Years of misdiagnosis for patients with rare diseases’, Pharma Times Online, 10th December 2010

Rare disease means I may wake up unable to move’, BBC Health Online, 16th January 2011

We also had coverage in the Daily Telegraph, Yahoo! News, The Scotsman, Top News and Kantar, as well as a feature on STV.