Carlisle Ford Runge , James Campbell , Carlisle P. Runge , Reena V. Kartha
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Special combined efforts addressing rare diseases should apply economic principles and methods to maximize returns to research and investment. Four opportunities exist: (1) exploiting treatment spillovers; (2) encouraging institutional networking and knowledge-sharing; (3) recognizing shared molecular and genetic etiologies; (4) organizing resulting clusters and baskets for scaling trials, research, diagnosis and treatment.