Living with a rare disease

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dc.date.accessioned	2021-01-15T10:56:34Z	-
dc.date.available	2021-01-15T10:56:34Z	-
dc.date.issued	2019	-
dc.identifier.citation	Axiak, C. J. (2019). Living with a rare disease. THINK Magazine, 28, 13.	en_GB
dc.identifier.issn	2306-0735	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/67245	-
dc.description.abstract	Picture yourself waking up one morning with a severe, relentless itch that no clinician or diagnostic tool can understand. Your life would be thrown off kilter. Quality of life would suffer financially, psychologically, and socially as you try to look for a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. This is what life is like for most people living with a rare disease. Often barraged with terms like ‘unknown’ or ‘undiagnosed’, matters can get even more challenging when the condition becomes more elusive or develops life-threatening consequences. And all of this is exacerbated by inequities in treatment and high costs of the few existing drugs that are available.	en_GB
dc.language.iso	en	en_GB
dc.publisher	University of Malta	en_GB
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	en_GB
dc.subject	Rare diseases -- Diagnosis	en_GB
dc.subject	Hypogonadism -- Genetic aspects	en_GB
dc.subject	Fibroblast growth factors	en_GB
dc.subject	Polymerase chain reaction	en_GB
dc.title	Living with a rare disease	en_GB
dc.type	contributionToPeriodical	en_GB
dc.rights.holder	The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder	en_GB
dc.description.reviewed	N/A	en_GB
dc.publication.title	THINK Magazine	en_GB
dc.contributor.creator	Axiak, Clayton John	-
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