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Rare Disease Day - 28th February 2025

 Rare Disease Day takes place every year on 28 February (or 29 February in leap years) – the rarest day of the year.  It is a global movement aimed at working towards equity in social opportunity, healthcare and access to diagnosis and treatment for all those living with a rare disease. According to rarediseaseday.org, a disease is classified as rare if it affects fewer than 1 in 2,000 people.  There are estimated to be over 300 million people worldwide living with a rare disease with 72% of such diseases being genetic.

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES 

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources related to this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.

 

BOOKS   

  • New clinical genetics; Read, A. F; Donnai, D; 2020 (Scion Publishing); 4th edition – [also available online as a Keele e-book]

 JOURNALS   

  • Rare (Amsterdam, Netherlands); Undiagnosed Diseases Network International, issuing body; (Elsevier B.V.) – [available as an Open Access e-journal from 2023 onwards]
  • Genes & diseases; Chongqing yi ke da xue; (Chongqing Medical University) – [available as an Open Access e-journal from 2014 onwards]The application of clinical genetics; National Library of New Zealand; (Dove Medical Press) – [available as an Open Access e-journal from 2008 onwards]
Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES  

N.B. All the above articles are Open Access so are available online to both Keele & NHS users.

 PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:  

 

KnowledgeShare CURRENT AWARENESS:   

KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates is a personalised current awareness service which sends, straight to your email inbox, new evidence on topics tailored to your requirements and collated by Health Librarians.For more information, or to register for KnowledgeShare please go to https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/currentawareness/. 

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