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Médicament orphelin
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An orphan drug is a pharmaceutical agent that is developed to treat certain rare medical conditions. An orphan drug would not be profitable to produce without government assistance, due to the small population of patients affected by the conditions. The conditions that orphan drugs are used to treat are referred to as orphan diseases. The assignment of orphan status to a disease and to drugs developed to treat it is a matter of public policy that depends on the legislation (if there is any) of the country.
Designation of a drug as an orphan drug has yielded medical breakthroughs that might not otherwise have been achieved, due to the economics of drug research and development. Examples of this can be that in the U.S. and the EU, it is easier to gain marketing approval for an orphan drug. There may be other financial incentives, such as an extended period of exclusivity, during which the producer has sole rights to market the drug. All are intended to encourage development of drugs which would otherwise lack sufficient profit motive to attract corporate research budgets and personnel.
According to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), an orphan drug is defined as one "intended for the treatment, prevention or diagnosis of a rare disease or condition, which is one that affects less than 200,000 persons in the US" (which equates to approximately 6 cases per 10,000 population) "or meets cost recovery provisions of the act".
In the European Union (EU), the European Medicines Agency (EMA) defines a drug as "orphan" if it is intended for the diagnosis, prevention or treatment of a life-threatening or chronically and seriously debilitating condition affecting not more than 5 in 10,000 EU people. EMA also qualifies a drug as orphan if – without incentives – it would be unlikely that marketing the drug in the EU would generate sufficient benefit for the affected people and for the drug manufacturer to justify the investment.
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Industrie pharmaceutique
L'industrie pharmaceutique est le secteur économique qui regroupe les activités de recherche, de fabrication et de commercialisation des médicaments pour la médecine humaine ou vétérinaire. Cette activité est exercée par les laboratoires pharmaceutiques et les sociétés de biotechnologie. La pharmacie la plus ancienne recensée dans l’histoire date de 754. Ouverte à Bagdad par des pharmaciens arabes, sous le califat Abbasside, les sayadilas, elle a rapidement été rejointe par d’autres, initialement dans le monde médiéval islamique et, par la suite, en Europe.
Médicament biologique
Un médicament biologique ou biomédicament est un produit biotechnologique, pharmaceuticalement actif et synthétisé par une source biologique (cellule vivante) ou extraite d'elle, et non obtenue par la chimie de synthèse. Ceci inclut des protéines (par exemple hormones, cytokines, anticorps, des vaccins, etc.) et des glycanes (anticoagulants tels que les héparine), c'est-à-dire des macromolécules généralement très complexes (par leur formule chimique, leur taille et configuration spatiale).
Drug discovery
In the fields of medicine, biotechnology and pharmacology, drug discovery is the process by which new candidate medications are discovered. Historically, drugs were discovered by identifying the active ingredient from traditional remedies or by serendipitous discovery, as with penicillin. More recently, chemical libraries of synthetic small molecules, natural products or extracts were screened in intact cells or whole organisms to identify substances that had a desirable therapeutic effect in a process known as classical pharmacology.