foremost that you have to search parents tell us what an enormous burden it is for them to know that something is wrong with that child and not get an answer as to what it means and where it leads the way that we're just hit. the pharmaceutical industry focuses on the development of therapies for common diseases secret tom from the association of research based pharmaceutical companies says this is the right approach i'm thought refitted for now nobody is responsible for basic research we have a total of thirty thousand diseases six to eight thousand of them are rare in view of that i think it's obvious that the pharmaceutical industry cannot tackle all diseases at the same time. on research spending by governments in the pharmaceutical sector has been rising for years there are a must to achieve the e.u.'s lisbon target of three percent of gross domestic product germany austria and switzerland together and. asked about one hundred