18/11/2015 (Agence Europe) - Public consultation on orphan medicines. The European Commission is looking at the best way of updating the 2003 communication on orphan medicines (2003/C 178/02). On 16 November, it opened a public consultation until 15 February, in an effort to develop ideas on this issue. Questions will focus on, for example, clarifying the definition of “sufficient benefit”, the development of orphan medicines for transmissible diseases and simplification of the procedure...