Webinar: COVID-19 and Gaucher Patients

  Heather Lau, MD, Director, Lysosomal Storage Disease Program at NYU Langone Health, provides an overview of how to manage a person with Gaucher disease during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Gaucher disease is a genetic disorder in which...

Why Patient Registries Are Important

  Barbara Burton, MD of Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago states why patient registries are important, especially for rare disease populations. As Dr. Burton explains there are several reasons why patient registries are important, including the value they...

The Latest Rare Disease Webinars Focused on COVID-19

CheckRare is working  to keep our audience of health care professionals up-to-date on the latest guidances and developments as it relates to how to better manage rare disease patients, many that require special medications and special care, during the current COVID-19...

Necrotizing Fasciitis

Necrotising fasciitis (NF), commonly known as flesh-eating disease, is an infection that results in the death of the body’s soft tissue. It is a severe disease of sudden onset that spreads rapidly. Symptoms include red or purple skin in the affected area, severe...

Niemann-Pick Diseases Type A and B

  Melissa Wasserstein, MD, from the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, talks about Acid Sphingomyelinase Deficiency (ASMD), also known as Niemann-Pick Diseases type A or type B. ASMD is a genetic disorder caused by mutations in the SMPD1 gene that encodes for ...