Expediting treatments in the 21st century: orphan drugs and accelerated approvals

Background In response to activated patient communities’ catalyzation, two significant efforts by the FDA to expedite treatments have now been in place for multiple decades. In 1983, the United States Congress passed the Orphan Drug Act to provide financial incentives for development of drugs for ra...

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Main Authors: Domike, Reuben, Raju, G. K., Sullivan, Jamie, Kennedy, Annie
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Biomedical Innovation
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/157535