23 Nov, 2024
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Rare Health Conditions You Probably Didn’t Know Exist – Health Digest

Morsa Images/Getty Images Living with any health condition is no easy feat. Yet, to say there’s a big difference between living with a more “common” or widely known condition versus a rare one is quite an understatement. According to the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), a rare […]

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Halsey’s Rare Organ Disease Explained – Health Digest

Your immune system has a host of white blood cells that battle disease and infection. One type of white blood cell is a lymphocyte, and you have two kinds of lymphocytes. Antibodies produced by B cells knock down foreign substances that can make you sick, and T cells destroy your own cells that have been […]

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The Rare Eye Feature That Lets Some People See Colors Others Can’t – Health Digest

The only surefire way to know if you carry the gene mutation leading to tetrachromacy is to have a genetic test done for that specific gene, since sometimes the mutation isn’t expressed in a way that gives you superhuman color-detecting abilities. However, researchers have found a few ways to determine if you might carry this […]