Experts urge prime minister to act on 'massive' rises in the prices of drugs for rare diseases

Wednesday, November 17, 2010 - 05:40 in Health & Medicine

An open letter from 20 consultants and a patient group published on bmj.com today, calls on the prime minister to take action over a legal loophole that allows drug companies to make easy profits by licensing existing treatments for rare (orphan) diseases...

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