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Innovation
- More than 800 medicines and vaccines in development against COVID-19.
- There are currently more than 18,000 medicines in development, of which more than 1,000 are gene or cell therapies.
Access
- The EMA has approved 191 new orphan drugs in the past 20 years.
- Medicines comprise 8.3% of the total care budget.
Better and longer life
- The five-year survival rate for patients with cancer has increased to 66%
