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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9874

2 April 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/health
Trakatellis report calls for more effort from member states for patients suffering from rare diseases

Brussels, 01/04/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 31 March, EP environment and public health committee approved the report by Professor Antonios Trakatellis (EPP, Greece), which asks the plenary session to back the aims set out I the European Commission communication on rare diseases. The report, adopted by the overwhelming majority of 43 votes to 6, argues for better care services for patients suffering from such diseases (of which there are about 6,000 though not all have been identified)...

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