With 350 million patients, rare diseases represent the largest disease community on the planet. In fact, if all rare disease patients lived in the same country, they would represent the world’s third-largest country, behind only China and India. Of course, with so many included conditions (more than 7,000 and counting),…
The Long Sprint - a Column by Laura King Edwards
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