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English translation: orphan drug
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| 14:36 May 15, 2002 |
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|  Selected response from: Gillian Hargreaves (X) Local time: 13:14 | ||||||
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| 5 +3 | orphan drug |
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| 4 | shelved product/pharmaceutical |
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| 4 | commercially nonviable drugs and medical procedures |
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11 mins confidence: 
shelved product/pharmaceutical Explanation: a colloquial (American) marketing expression of a product that has not been commercialized orphaned pharmaceutical as a straight translation is also quite possible although a bit more difficult to understand, I believe |
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14 mins confidence:
commercially nonviable drugs and medical procedures Explanation: Might have to just use a paraphrase here. It's certainly a common enough problem that we should have heard it on the news if a corresponding term existed in english. |
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22 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +3
peer agreement (net): +3orphan drug Explanation: i.e. one that cannot be researched for lack of funds, e.g. because it is remedy for a very rare disorder. We deal with translations relating to these quite frequently. This is definitely the correct term in English. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2002-05-15 15:02:53 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- 15,500 hits on Google - here is one of them: Orphan Drugs Orphan Drugs. The term \"orphan drug\" refers to a product that treats a rare disease affecting fewer than 200,000 Americans. The Orphan Drug Act was signed into ... www.fda.gov/cder/handbook/orphan.htm - 3k - Cached - Similar pages [ More results from www.fda.gov ] |
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