30 million Americans have a rare disease, a little less than 10% of the population. But that total represents around 7,000 different diseases, with nothing in common other than their rarity.
With over 40% of all medicines in the pipeline aimed at rare diseases, the future looks positive for increasing the number of treatments available. However, as Ben Hargreaves discovers ...
Patient advocacy groups warned that delays in implementing India's rare disease policy have left many, including children, in a life-or-death crisis, urging immediate government intervention to ...