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rare disease
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Speaking at the dedication ceremony, Senator Hatfield, now 82, said, "I think this is a time to turn our attention to the underserved, I think specifically of the orphan diseases.
Under the new rules, a centralized procedure will become mandatory for medicines used to treat AIDS, cancer, diabetes, neurodegenerative disorders and orphan diseases, and will be extended to other diseases after four years.
Groft, PharmD, who currently is on detail as executive director of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy, knew there was a need for a genetic and rare diseases information center when he was executive director of the Commission on Orphan Diseases.
 
 
 
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