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What is the importance Specialty Drugs and Patients With Rare Diseases ?

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 A rising number of health insurance brokers understand the importance of developing new and successful solutions to deal with the issues of managing speciality medications, which treat complex, chronic, or rare ailments and require specific administration or handling. Significantly, the cost of a single speciality drug used on a long-term basis is three times that of a Medicare patient's typical annual income. Many older folks are forced to choose between taking their medications and buying groceries and paying their rent as a result of this. For high-cost drugs , specialty pharmacies are a trustworthy distribution method. They provide patients with convenience and lower costs while also optimising insurance reimbursements from firms that cover the pharmaceuticals they consume. Specialty medications currently account for around 17% of the average employer's total pharmacy costs. Over the next five years, experts expect that specialty medicine costs would rise by 21 percent to...

What is Pediatric Rare Diseases?

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The majority of uncommon diseases affect children, with the majority of them having a genetic reason for their illness. However, even with today's technology and understanding, making a molecular diagnosis can be difficult. Pediatric genomics is a young but quickly growing discipline that aims to solve this problem by merging next-generation sequencing technologies into research and clinical procedures, particularly whole-exome and whole- genome sequencing .  This multidisciplinary approach, combined with the growing availability of data on population genetic variation, has already resulted in a higher incidence of causal gene identification and improved detection of rare pediatric diseases. Importantly, a greater understanding of the genetic basis of uncommon disease translates to more accurate prognosis, care, surveillance, and genetic advice for affected families; it stimulates research into new medicines; and it encourages research into new therapeutics.