Backgrounder … What is this & why do or should I care? Fiscal cliff – the effect of a series of enacted legislation which, if unchanged, will result in tax increases, spending cuts, and a corresponding reduction in the budget deficit. These laws include tax increases due to the expiration of the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance […]
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I was pleased to be the organizer and host for the RARE Project | Global Genes RARE Patient Advocacy Summit on September 29th, 2012. The day-long event with 140 in attendance and over 120 viewing via a live webcast. Videos of the event are available below for viewing.
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Thank you all for your response to my recent request to send letters to the FDA on the Patient-Focused Drug Development initiative last week. Quite a number of you (dozens) responded on behalf of rare disease in general and many on behalf of MLD or lysosomal disease specifically. As I mentioned in my prior post,
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Last Thursday, October 25th, I attended the FDA’s Patient-Focused Drug Development public meeting in Washington, DC. This meeting was required by the recently passed FDASIA/PDUFA-V legislation (see Abbreviation Decoder at end of post) and requires the FDA to hold 20 disease-specific meetings over the next 5 years to discuss topics such as: “the impact of the disease on patients,
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