Renaissance in new drugs for rare diseases: Report in world’s largest scientific socity magazine

Once famously described as «orphan diseases, too small to be noticed, too small to be funded» in the drama Lorenzo’s Oil, rare diseases are getting unprecedented attention among drug manufacturers, who are ramping up research efforts and marketing new medicines that promise fuller lives for children and other patients with these heartbreaking conditions. That’s the finding of a major examination, published today, in Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical So…

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/acs…