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Summary of Edition of 28 November 2017

European Commission launches its Horizon 2020 Health Research Programme 2018-2020 including rare diseases

Orphanet has released Spanish translations of its Emergency Guidelines

FDA statement: implementation of the agency’s streamlined development and review pathway for consumer tests that

Education: rare disease knowledge amongst medical students

China has released new policy for orphan drug development

EMA moving to amsterdam

TBVAC2020: advancing tuberculosis vaccines from discovery to clinical development

Children’s medicines: statement in the EU

Pilot of the european disability card project launched in Belgium

New website for RD-Connect

Precision medicine: computational drug repositioning for rare diseases

Characteristics of novel therapeutics and postmarket safety events

Neuromuscular disease patient registry from New Zealand

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OrphaNews, The Newsletter of the Rare Diseases Community.
OrphaNews is supported by the European Commission's DG SANTE (RD-ACTION Joint Action N° 677024) and the French Muscular Dystrophy Association (AFM)
Editor-in-chief: Kate Bushby, Ana Rath
Editor:  Déborah Deprez
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