Relationship To Orphan Diseases
Because of definitions that include reference to treatment availability, a lack of resources, and severity of the disease, some people prefer the term orphan disease and use it as a synonym for rare disease. The orphan drug movement began in the United States.
Others distinguish between the two terms. For example, the European Organization for Rare Diseases (EURORDIS) lumps both rare diseases and neglected diseases into a larger category of orphan diseases.
The United States' Orphan Drug Act includes both rare diseases and any non-rare diseases "for which there is no reasonable expectation that the cost of developing and making available in the United States a drug for such disease or condition will recovered from sales in the United States of such drug" as orphan diseases.
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