Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 July 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Funding of Orphan Drugs: Discussion
9:00 am
Professor Gerry McElvaney:
It is a really important point. From our studies we know that when a person gets emphysema and loses lung tissue, he or she never gets it back. We have done the studies over two years. If a person is waiting two years to see if a drug is to be approved, he or she will have irretrievably lost lung tissue.