EPA Report Proves That Black Communities More Likely to Breathe Toxic Air | People of color have a 35 percent higher chance of living near emission polluting facilities than their White counterparts—and the number is higher for Black residents.

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EPA Report Proves That Black Communities More Likely to Breathe Toxic Air | People of color have a 35 percent higher chance of living near emission polluting facilities than their White counterparts—and the number is higher for Black residents.

Study says though college roommates are sensitive to one another's distress, they often underestimate the severity of that distress

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Study says though college roommates are sensitive to one another's distress, they often underestimate the severity of that distress

Saturn’s Rings Might Be Shredded Moons

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Saturn’s Rings Might Be Shredded Moons

Women reported higher levels of incivility from other women than their male counterparts. In other words, women are ruder to each other than they are to men, or than men are to women, finds researchers in a new study in the Journal of Applied Psychology.

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Women reported higher levels of incivility from other women than their male counterparts. In other words, women are ruder to each other than they are to men, or than men are to women, finds researchers in a new study in the Journal of Applied Psychology.

Hi Reddit! We’re Loren Pena, a researcher from the Undiagnosed Diseases Network, and Jamie Mills, the father of a little boy diagnosed with a novel rare genetic condition last year. Ask us anything about rare diseases or the Undiagnosed Diseases Network!

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Since accepting its first patient in 2015, the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN), which is funded by the National Institutes of Health, has been working to find answers for patients with unknown disorders that have nowhere else to turn. The 13 UDN sites across the country conduct basic and clinical research to improve the level of diagnosis and uncover the underlying disease mechanisms associated with these rare conditions. The UDN is an expansion of an Undiagnosed Diseases Program initiated in 2008 at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD. Many liken our work to the popular television show House M.D., although we would argue that diagnosing a rare disease in one hour is pretty much impossible!

Rare diseases aren’t that rare. The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), as well as the Rare Diseases Act of 1983, defines a rare disease as one that affects fewer than 200,000 people in the United States. It has been estimated that approximately 25 million Americans have a rare disease. This week, we and others around the globe will be celebrating Rare Disease Day. We’re doing this AMA to raise awareness about rare and undiagnosed diseases among the scientific community and share information about rare diseases and their impact on patients and families.

A bit more about us. We are:

• Dr. Loren Pena: a clinical geneticist and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Duke Medicine, one of seven clinical sites within the UDN. I see patients in the Duke genetics clinic and evaluate patients enrolled in the UDN at Duke.

• Mr. Jamie Mills: the father of Quinn, a 3-year-old boy diagnosed with an extremely rare genetic disease by the Duke UDN team last year. Quinn’s particular mutation is so rare that at this time there are only 10 known cases around the world. I am also co-chair of the UDN Participant Engagement and Empowerment Resource (PEER), a group of participants and family members who have participated in the UDN.

We will be answering your questions at 1 p.m. ET – Ask Us Anything!

">Hi Reddit! We’re Loren Pena, a researcher from the Undiagnosed Diseases Network, and Jamie Mills, the father of a little boy diagnosed with a novel rare genetic condition last year. Ask us anything about rare diseases or the Undiagnosed Diseases Network!

More than half of gun owners do not safely store all their guns, according to a new survey of 1,444 U.S. gun owners conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health published in the American Journal of Public Health.

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More than half of gun owners do not safely store all their guns, according to a new survey of 1,444 U.S. gun owners conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health published in the American Journal of Public Health.

Loss of an enzyme may be partly responsible for age-related cognitive decline, and restoring the enzyme to youthful levels through parabiosis, or ‘young blood’ transfusion, can improve memory in mice, as reported by UCSF scientists in Cell Reports this week.

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Loss of an enzyme may be partly responsible for age-related cognitive decline, and restoring the enzyme to youthful levels through parabiosis, or ‘young blood’ transfusion, can improve memory in mice, as reported by UCSF scientists in Cell Reports this week.