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Orphan drugs are manufactured solely for rare diseases

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The pharmaceutical industry actually has a designated term for chemical compounds that barely anyone needs. 'Orphan drugs' target conditions affecting tiny fractions of the population. Companies are legally granted extreme tax incentives and exclusivity monopolies to produce them, because otherwise, saving a niche demographic wouldn't be profitable enough.

Orphan drugs are manufactured solely for rare diseases
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