February 29, 2024: The “Rarest Day of the Year”

Rare Disease Day took place on February 29, 2024. Created in 2008, Rare Disease Day is observed on the “rarest day of the year”—February 29 in leap years (February 28 in non-leap years)—as a way to galvanize the global rare disease community around the goal of achieving “equity in social opportunity, healthcare and access to diagnosis and therapies for people living with a rare disease.”…
By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP