Four Decades of Orphan Drugs and Priorities for the Future.

N Engl J Med

From the Center for Health Law Studies, Saint Louis University School of Law, St. Louis (M.S.S.); Harvard Business School and the Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science - both in Boston (A.D.S.); Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany (A.D.S.); and Duke Law School and the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Durham, NC (A.K.R.).

Published: July 2024

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