Global Rare Disease Day

WHAT: Raptor Pharmaceuticals, San Francisco Bay Area biotech company, will participate in Global Rare Disease Day on February 28, 2009, joining hundreds of patient organizations, government agencies, medical societies and other drug development companies to focus attention on Rare Diseases. A Rare Disease affects fewer than 200,000 Americans, and nearly 7,000 such diseases afflict nearly 30 million Americans, according to the National Institutes of Health (”NIH”).

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Filed under: Public Health on February 25th, 2009