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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8861

7 January 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/health
Eurodis critical of WHO report on priority medicines for Europe and world

Brussels, 06/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - The European Organisation for Rare Diseases (Eurodis), which brings together 220 associations from 21 countries has recently given a severely critical assessment of the WHO's recent report on European and international priority needs for medicines. Eurodis balked at the "absurdity" of the geographical cut limiting the problematic of rare diseases to the EU and USA alone (rare diseases affect less than 1 in 2000 people). Eurodis also criticises the...

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