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View Post: Social Science Statistics Blog: breast cancer, rare diseases, and ...
26 Nov 2009 by Maya Sen  
So all of this got me thinking that this could maybe be a straightforward application of the "rare diseases" example of Bayes' Rule (which many people see in their first probability course). I did some (more) digging around in one of ...
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View Post: Innovation Pass for drugs for rare diseases
28 Nov 2009 by HSPDi  
The Office for Life Sciences (OLS) Blueprint, published in July, detailed the Government's commitment to create the 'Innovation Pass' to allow access to drugs for rare diseases that are not yet appraised by NICE, and where there is ...
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View Post: Advancing Rare Disease Research: The Intersection of Patient ...
12 Nov 2009 by Beth  
The expected outcome of the workshop is to gain acceptance of the concept of a federated rare disease patient registry and participation in creating this patient registry from as many curators of patient registries and other ...
View Blog: Beth Morgan Multiple Myeloma Treatment Blog - http://www.myelomablog.com/

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View Post: Counterfeit coins and rare diseases — The Endeavour
12 Nov 2009 by John  
Counterfeit coins and rare diseases. by John on November 12, 2009. Here's a puzzle I saw a long time ago that came to mind recently. You have a bag of 27 coins. One of these coins is counterfeit and the rest are genuine. ...
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View Post: BGN 16 million envisaged for rare diseases treatment in 2010
25 Nov 2009 by blessedayesha  
Medicines for rare disease treatment that the Ministry of Healthcare covers will not ne decreased in 2010, press centre of the Ministry announced. BGN 16 million are the allotted funds for medication of rare diseased in 2010. ...
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View Post: ::News4u:: » Rare diseases current flavour of Bollywood
10 Nov 2009 by admin  
News4u-Entertainment Desk- Bollywood seems to be setting a new trend in exploring rare diseases with directors casting superstars in roles which seek to raise awareness about such lesser known ailments. ...
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