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Medicine: Last chance clinic

Nature volume 460, pages 1071–1075 (2009)Cite this article

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Some diseases defy diagnosis. Brendan Maher meets two people who hope that the US National Institutes of Health can help.

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Brendan Maher is Nature's biology features editor.

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