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- Title
Making Sure That Orphan Incentives Tip the Right Way in Europe.
- Authors
Horgan, Denis; Koeva-Balabanova, Jasmina; Capoluongo, Ettore; Jagielska, Beata; Cattaneo, Ivana; Kozaric, Marta; Tumiene, Birute; El Ahl, Jean-Paul; Lal, Jonathan A.; Kalra, Dipak; Malats, Núria
- Abstract
The delicate balance of funding research and development of treatments for rare disease is only imperfectly achieved in Europe, and even the current provisional equilibrium is under a new threat from well-intentioned policy changes now in prospect that could—in addition to the intrinsic complexities of research—reduce the incentives on which commercial activity in this area is dependent. The European Union review of its pharmaceutical legislation, for which proposals are scheduled to appear before the end of 2022, envisages adjusting the decade-old incentives to meet objectives that are more precisely targeted. However, researchers, physicians, patients and industry have expressed concerns that ill-considered modifications could have unintended consequences in disrupting the current balance and could reduce rather than increase the flow of innovative treatments for rare diseases.
- Subjects
EUROPE; MOTIVATION (Psychology); RULES; DRUG development; RARE diseases
- Publication
Healthcare (2227-9032), 2022, Vol 10, Issue 9, p1600
- ISSN
2227-9032
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/healthcare10091600