Posts by: Larry Luxner

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Cash-strapped governments across the 28-member European Union are struggling to control runaway healthcare expenditures — at exactly the same time as the promise of new but expensive therapies to ... Read more

October 10, 2018October 10, 2018

Advocacy Groups, Doctors Question Rising Prices of Rare Disease Treatments

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Half a year has gone by since disgraced pharma executive Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in federal prison for securities and wire fraud while heading San Diego-based ... Read more

September 21, 2018

#NORDSummit – More Than 700 Expected to Attend Oct. 15-16 Rare Disease Summit in Washington

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More than 700 medical experts, pharmaceutical executives, patient advocates, and others are expected to converge on Washington, D.C., next month for the 2018 NORD Rare Diseases & Orphan Products ... Read more

June 4, 2018June 4, 2018

US ‘Right to Try’ Law Meets with Mix of Praise and Criticism, Including Among Those with Rare Diseases

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As President Trump signed the recently passed Right to Try legislation into law in a White House ceremony, Jordan McLinn of Indianapolis tried twice to embrace him. The third ... Read more

May 29, 2018May 29, 2018

#ERDC2018 – When Treating Rare Disease Patients, Don’t Overlook Quality of Life, Panel Urges

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Finding treatments and potential cures for rare diseases is crucial, but so is the quality of patients’ lives — a rather nebulous term that means different things to different ... Read more

May 17, 2018May 17, 2018

‘Rare Impact Awards’ Dinner Marks Orphan Drug Act and NORD at 35

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The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) will celebrate the 35th anniversary of both the 1983 Orphan Drug Act and NORD’s founding at a dinner tonight in Washington, D.C. ... Read more

May 17, 2018May 17, 2018

#ECRD2018 – EU Must Do More for Rare Disease Patients, Eurordis Leaders Say

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The European Union isn’t doing enough to protect the 30 million or so people with rare diseases who live in its 28 member countries, officials meeting last week in ... Read more

May 2, 2018May 2, 2018

#ECRD2018 – Patient Access and Collaboration Focus of Eurordis Meeting May 10-12

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At least 800 people representing some 45 countries are soon expected to gather in Austria’s capital city, Vienna, for ECRD 2018, the 9th European Conference on Rare Diseases and Orphan ... Read more

April 13, 2018April 12, 2018

NIH Agency Pioneers Collaborative Research into Rare Diseases

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A little-known government entity within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is helping to lead U.S. efforts to speed up the development of therapies for some 7,000 rare diseases. ... Read more

March 19, 2018March 19, 2018

Genome Sequencing and Its Clinical Potential Focus of NYC Rare Disease Day Event

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Genetic sequencing and the speed with which it can help diagnose a child’s disease — in addition to revealing the genes that cause at least half of the 7,000 rare ... Read more

Posts by: Larry Luxner

Larry Luxner

Rising Healthcare Costs Strain EU Budgets Even as New Therapies Flourish

Advocacy Groups, Doctors Question Rising Prices of Rare Disease Treatments

#NORDSummit – More Than 700 Expected to Attend Oct. 15-16 Rare Disease Summit in Washington

US ‘Right to Try’ Law Meets with Mix of Praise and Criticism, Including Among Those with Rare Diseases

#ERDC2018 – When Treating Rare Disease Patients, Don’t Overlook Quality of Life, Panel Urges

‘Rare Impact Awards’ Dinner Marks Orphan Drug Act and NORD at 35

#ECRD2018 – EU Must Do More for Rare Disease Patients, Eurordis Leaders Say

#ECRD2018 – Patient Access and Collaboration Focus of Eurordis Meeting May 10-12

NIH Agency Pioneers Collaborative Research into Rare Diseases

Genome Sequencing and Its Clinical Potential Focus of NYC Rare Disease Day Event

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