Deletion. (Science: genetics) a chromosome abnormality in which part of a single chromosome has been lost. Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page. This page was last modified on 3 October 2005, at 21:16.This page has been accessed 49,284 times. What links here | Related changes | Permanent link.
A decade earlier, only 13 therapies were recognized as orphan treatments. Worldwide sales of orphan drugs amounted to less than $20 billion in 2000, but by 2020 are forecast to cost $176 billion, according to EvaluatePharma, a market research firm. By that year, the money spent on orphan drugs will account for about 19 percent of the worldâs total drug expense. Orphan drugs treat diseases that affect fewer than 200,000 people in the United States and cost an average of $137,000 a year. And treatments for so-called ultra-rare diseases, like the disorder that Synageva targets, generally cost much more.
However, these effects were significantly lower than the mortality effects, which put the total cost of illness at $150â$156 billion. The total cost of illness was estimated at $151 billion (uncertainty range: $131â$176 billion).xhibit 2 presents the cost of treating each of the 426 million cases of illness. Average treatment costs varied by country. Ukraine maintained the highest cost of treatment for all diseases at $62 for malaria, $1,113 for meningitis, $21 for pertussis, $264 for pneumonia, and $42 for rotavirus.