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What Is a Fair Reimbursement Price for Orphan Drugs?

What Is a Fair Reimbursement Price for Orphan Drugs?

In the current draft of the Act on the Stabilisation of Finances for the Statutory Health Insurance in Germany, the threshold for orphan drugs shall decrease from currently €50 to €20m. A déjà vu? But wasn’t it €30m last time this was mentioned? Would €25m be a...

Showing my stripes for this year’s Rare Disease Day

Showing my stripes for this year’s Rare Disease Day

Oral and maxillofacial surgery was one major discipline during my last years of dental medicine at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. I was intrigued by the strange names of diseases and syndromes such as Hodgkin's, non-Hodgkin's and Behçet's. I remember very...