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It isn’t easy to get pharmaceutical companies interested in developing treatments for a tiny population of patients. The suggestion from experts at this week’s Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Centre Symposium: find an approach that also addresses a more common disease. Ayisha Sharma has the details here.

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Karen Weintraub
Deputy Editor, Endpoints News
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by Ayisha Sharma

OX­FORD, Eng­land — Mak­ing rare dis­ease treat­ments eco­nom­i­cal­ly at­trac­tive for drug­mak­ers re­quires look­ing out­side rare dis­ease, ac­cord­ing to ex­perts in­ter­viewed by End­points News.

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by Nicole DeFeudis

Mer­ck’s Welireg won FDA ap­proval on Fri­day for use in com­bi­na­tion with Ei­sai’s Lenvi­ma to treat cer­tain kid­ney can­cer pa­tients.

The com­bi­na­tion will be...

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