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Rare diseases in the spotlight-affecting a total of about 25 million Americans.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 19:18

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Rare diseases in the spotlight

Rare diseases, which affect some 25 million Americans, may get more attention from an international push toward new therapies. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times / April 27, 2011)

Rare diseases are likely to get more attention now that an international consortium of patient advocacy gro

ups and research funders has vowed to deliver 200 new therapies by 2020. For people with these diseases, such attention must seem long overdue.

Drug companies currently don’t have much incentive to develop drugs for diseases that affect fewer than 200,000 people, but almost 7,000 rare diseases exist affecting a total of about 25 million Americans. STORY HERE

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