Evaluating health policy and legal responses : how to reduce barriers and improve access to orphan drugs for rare diseases in Canada

Abstract : Rare diseases are debilitating conditions often leading to severe clinical manifestations for affected patients. Orphan drugs have been developed to treat these rare diseases affecting a small number of individuals. Incentives in the legal framework aimed to recoup the research and develo...

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Main Author: Blais, Catherine-Marie
Other Authors: Bourassa Forcier, Mélanie
Language:English
Published: Université de Sherbrooke 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11143/9592