Orphan Drugs; Inholdings; Homo-Nauseous, Asshat, Predatated

[Dave Wilton]

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> ORPHAN DRUGS
>
> No, Little Orphan Annie didn't check into a clinic with Mary Kate Olsen.
>
> Jesse, does OED have this in its next reivision?
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> 4 August 2004, NEW YORK SUN, pg. 9, col. 3:
> The lack of innovation in the areas of vaccines, contraceptive
> products, and
> "orphan drugs," or drugs for serious and life-threatening
> diseases that affect
> small segments of trhe population--extensively documented by the federal
> government and others--only begin to illustrate the point that
> more liability
> results in less innovation.
>
>
> ORPHAN DRUGS--23,300 Google hits, 794 Google Groups hits

The earliest Google Group hit is from 27 May 1989 (quoting a 19 May message
that doesn't appear in the archive): 27 May 1989, sci.med, Re:
Antidepressants for Panic?, "There has been some attempt to redress this
legislatively via "orphan drug" laws, but the applicability is quite
restricted."

I'm pretty sure this can be antedated pretty easily.

--Dave Wilton
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