Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Patient Voices: Rare Diseases - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

Living with any disease can be a trial, but patients with rare conditions face a host of uniquely difficult challenges. Simply getting an accurate diagnosis can be an enormous task, and many with poorly understood illnesses struggle with isolation and loneliness. Here six men and women talk about how their lives have been most affected by rare conditions.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/20/health/healthguide/te_rare_diseases.html?hp