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International Initiative Tackles Paucity Of Rare Disease Devices

An orphan device working group is calling on medtech experts to pen scientific journal articles.

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What is the importance of medtech in diagnosing and treating rare diseases? This is among the key questions that an international working group aims to address through a collection of articles in the Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases.

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