9/19/2022: The new nonprofit Every Cure, backed by the Clinton Global Initiative, aims to identify generic drugs that could help people with rare diseases.

9/20/2022: A new nonprofit backed by the Clinton Global Initiative aims to identify generic drugs that could help people with rare diseases.

2/4/2017: They called him the Beast. David Fajgenbaum was the fittest of his friends at the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school, a 6-foot-3 gym addict and former quarterback at Georgetown. His mammoth hands seemed more suited to spiraling footballs than...

8/26/2019: Dr. David Fajgenbaum opens up about his remarkable true story and his new memoir in an interview with "GMA."

1/14/2018: David Fajgenbaum, a 32-year-old doctor at the University of Pennsylvania, is racing to find a cure for Castleman disease, an illness that’s “like a mix between an autoimmune disease and a cancer.” Fajgenbaum is not only devoting his life to this cause for other patients – he’s been battling the rare and deadly disease himself since 2010. TODAY’s Dylan Dreyer has this week’s Sunday Spotlight...

4/24/2020: Fajgenbaum has made it his life's mission to chase a cure for Castleman disease. Now, he's chasing another. His team, his labs, were designed for this exact kind of medical research.

9/16/2019: This med student was given last rites before finding a treatment that saved his life. His method could help millions

4/4/2017: David Fajgenbaum has nearly died five times. He’s had his last rites administered, and he knows he could relapse at any moment. Still, the 32-year-old doctor doesn’t waste energy on self-pity. He can’t. He’s too busy trying to find a cure for the rare disease that’s come so close to killing him...

7/11/2016: WEST PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- One local doctor is urging lawmakers to pass a bill that could help thousands of people with rare diseases to find effective treatments. He's a doctor and a researcher, but he's also a patient battling a rare disease himself. A rare disease means it affects a very small percentage of the population. But all together, about 30 million Americans have one of the 7,000 rare diseases...

5/5/2019: David Fajgenbaum didn’t die. He thought he would. He almost did. But he didn’t. What almost killed him was Castleman disease, an immune disorder so rare that David, a medical student when the symptoms first appeared, had never heard of it...

11/24/2015: PHILADELPHIA (WTVD) -- Looking at family photos, it appears David Fajgenbaum has it all: A medical degree and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania, a beautiful wife, and a job that keeps his creative juices flowing. But then there are other pictures that tell a much different story - one of a rare and deadly disease with no cure...

7/13/2016: After the third time he nearly died but before the fourth, David Fajgenbaum embraced a new motto: Think it, do it. “I got out of the hospital with this profound sense of, you need to make the most of every second,” he says. A former college football player with close-cropped dark hair and a firm handshake, Fajgenbaum, 31, is the picture...