"It just doesn't make sense for the state to get into the medical research business to the tune of half a billion dollars a year when it has so many other important unmet needs," it said.
Non-invasive tests for early detection of lung cancer are an important unmet clinical need.
One important unmet need is the development of an innovative technology-based treatment platform for headache self-management [1].
Given the disease burden, there is an important unmet need for pharmacologic treatment options for this patient population.
Potential medications based on the endocannabinoid system have thus become a central focus of contemporary translational research for varied indications with important unmet medical needs.
Respiratory syncytial virus causes significant morbidity and mortality in both developed and developing countries, and a vaccine that adequately protects from severe disease remains an important unmet need.
Despite advances in understanding and treatment of autoimmune hepatitis, important unmet clinical needs remain in both adult and paediatric patient populations.
An important unmet need is the implementation of these tools into treatment choices for individual patients, and this is the focus of intense ongoing research.
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the greatest remaining unmet infant vaccine need in developed countries and an important unmet infant vaccine need worldwide.
"Until recently we have had few treatment options available for these patients, so the availability of this medicine goes a long way towards fulfilling an important unmet need," he said.
There was consensus that there is an important unmet clinical need for better treatment of patients with AF at risk of stroke, including alternatives to warfarin that address its limitations.
