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Pharma Gets Incentives to Make Kids Cancer Drugs
Pharma Gets Incentives to Make Kids Cancer Drugs
Pharma Gets Incentives to Make Kids Cancer Drugs
Thanks to a Texas Congressman, pharmaceutical companies will get a big incentive to start producing drugs for treating cancer in children.  These are "orphan drugs" which the drug makers stopped making because they couldn't make money from them, but that should change soon.