{"id":505112,"date":"2026-02-28T11:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505112\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T11:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:11:15","slug":"rare-diseases-affect-1-in-12-canadians-toronto-family-shares-diagnosis-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505112\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare diseases affect 1 in 12 Canadians: Toronto family shares diagnosis experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\tFebruary 28th is recognized as &#8220;Rare Disease Day.&#8221; Scientists say about 80 per cent of rare diseases are genetic, and often there are signs or symptoms right from birth. Many families can go years without having a clear diagnosis, but as health reporter Katherine Ward explains, it can make a big difference when doctors are able to offer clear answers. \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"February 28th is recognized as &#8220;Rare Disease Day.&#8221; Scientists say about 80 per cent of rare diseases are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,167926,3302],"class_list":{"0":"post-505112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-short-clip","11":"tag-toronto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}