Healthy Skepticism Library item: 4740
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Publication type: Journal Article
Clarke JT.
Is the current approach to reviewing new drugs condemning the victims of rare diseases to death? A call for a national orphan drug review policy.
CMAJ 2006 Jan 17; 174:(2):189-90
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/174/2/189
Keywords:
Canada
Drug Costs/statistics & numerical data
Drug Industry
Health Policy*
Humans
Orphan Drug Production/legislation & jurisprudence*
Policy Making
Prognosis
Rare Diseases/drug therapy*