It's Rare Disease Week and Rare Disease Day is Feb. 28, both of which are aimed at highlighting the difficulty and costliness of treating rare conditions. The federal government classifies certain drugs as orphans, which are for treating diseases with fewer than 200,000 affected people or for diseases in which drug development would not be profitable.
Data Points: Trying to make rare diseases even more rare
Data Points for Feb. 26, 2018
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