In September 1990, Stevens, as a radio stunt, admitted that he suffered from a rare affliction - being a Canadian who can't skate.

Karl Skorecki, a biologist at Technion University in Haifa, Israel, is among a handful of researchers hoping to turn this rare affliction into biological gold.

"Heartland" doesn't inspire you to dig deep on WebMD and learn more about rare afflictions.

The story of Black Jack, a talented surgeon who operates illegally, using radical and supernatural techniques to combat rare afflictions.

Sarek was suffering from Bendii Syndrome, a rare affliction that occasionally struck Vulcans over two hundred years of age.

The lazy insula is a rarer affliction than you'd guess by looking at Americans' indebtedness.

It is a rare affliction: once in a million million computations, a flywheel skips and an engine thinks.

And I will feel an onset of that rare affliction, unique to former presidents.

Hemangiopericytoma with t(7;12)(p22;q13)-translocations is a rare affliction, in which a translocational mutation causes the fusion of the ACTB gene over GLI1 in Chromosome 12.