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Joe Pitts: “After all, as we have learned, there are only effective treatments for 500 of the 7,000 known diseases impacting…”

On the recordJune 10, 2014
After all, as we have learned, there are only effective treatments for 500 of the 7,000 known diseases impacting patients today.
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Joe Pitts
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Pitts highlights the gap in effective treatments for numerous diseases.

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