"Taking Care" focuses on Lauren Miller Rogen's mother, Adele, a longtime Lakeland resident who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's ...

Jennifer Wound of Genzyme illustrates the power of using film in rare disease awareness campaigns by discussing Genzyme's 'Facing Fabry Together' patient video. Disease awareness campaigns ...

In her feature documentary debut "Walk with Me," Levitt spotlights her husband Charlie Hess, a talented graphic designer who, at the age of 57, was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease.

Rare Disease Day saw the debut of a film that aims to raise awareness of cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (cALD), a devastating and fatal condition with no pharmacological treatments available.

In the meantime, he appreciates the irony of the timing of the documentary’s arrival. “You can’t make that stuff up,” he said. “Making a movie about a fake disease in the middle of a ...

The Johnny Depp film "Minamata,” rather than a Japanese source, motivated Japanese students at a school in Milan to want to study Minamata disease, one of the worst ecological disasters to have ...

The documentary shows how the Conservative government ... failed to alert the public to the possible dangers posed by the disease. Annie McVey In 1996 10 people were known to have contracted ...