Rare Diseases and Scientific Inquiry

The US National Institutes of Health Office of Rare Diseases Research has prepared a “Rare Diseases and Scientific Inquiry” supplement of lesson plans on rare diseases for school teachers. It would give students an opportunity to get inside the rare diseases issues. Plans focus on what is a rare disease, what causes rare diseases, the difficulty with diagnosis, the importance of medical research, etc. To know more about it, please visit US NIH website.