How many rare diseases are there? According to a new study co-led by University of New Mexico data scientist Tudor Oprea, MD, Ph.D., no one really knows—and that's a problem, because it's likely that manyrare diseasepatients do not receive appropriate medical care. In a commentary pub...
Conclusions: The number of high-quality medical publications on rare diseases is not commensurate with their overall prevalence and there are access barriers, highlighting an unmet need in medical literature that would benefit all stakeholders.
In many clnical tials this will be a measure such as survivaL response rate, time to relapse, degree of palliation or a quality of life index. Some- times there is more than one outcome and all are regarded as of equal importance; this is dicussed below. It is customary to start ...
Pharmaceutical companies are using recent advances in digital technologies to improve care strategies and provide hope for rare disease patients across thousands of different rare diseases.
For example, “Periodic disease” is the most common disease in Armenia but it is quite rare in France. Similarly, various other diseases are rare in many places. However, you must keep your health prior and getgenetic testing for rare diseasesto avoid excessive sickness. ...
Making the public more aware of rare diseases can help patients who struggle with undiagnosed conditions, but it’s daunting because there are so many different conditions – most of which lack treatments. It can take years to get an accurate diagnosis and, even once they are diagn...
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With many rare diseases, there may be limited knowledge to guide researchers, regulators, and payer decisions regarding questions that are important to developing and evaluating a therapy. For example, what is the natural course of the condition? Are there more or less severe forms? How does the...
There is also a huge unmet medical need with approximately 95% of rare diseases having no FDA approved treatment. In addition to large pharma, smaller biotechnology companies are often involved in initial development of a drug molecule which may later be marketed/acquired by larger pharmaceu...
(fats) in the body. FCS affects only about one in a million people, and so most people, including many clinicians, are not familiar with it. As we worked to build awareness, we also quickly noticed that even leaders in industry and at the FDA had a limited understanding of this disease...