A disease or disorder is defined as rare in Europe when it affects not more than 1 in every 2,000 persons. Yet, because there are so many different rare diseases – between 6,000 and 8,000 – taken altogether they affect a significant share of the population. Today, the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union will host an all day conference in Dublin to discuss the key issues in this area.
In the EU, as many as 30 million people suffer from a rare disease, and many of them are children. The European Commission announced that the €144 million is to be distributed between the 26 projects will go towards covering a broad spectrum of rare diseases such as cardiovascular, metabolic and immunological disorders.
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