This, in turn, can help address unmet medical needs, stimulate the economy and create American jobs.

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This reflects the fact that appropriate treatments for unmet medical needs that generate high levels of reimbursement.

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The number of compelling early stage compounds that could address unmet medical needs are in the hundreds, if not thousands.

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Indeed, it is doctors who usually come up with the ideas in the first place, helping Medtronic spot potentially lucrative unmet medical needs.

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Ostensibly, the intention is to facilitate the development of innovative medicines that address unmet medical needs and ultimately make them available to patients who depend on them.

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"It falls at the top of unmet medical needs, " says Peter Suzdak, the research chief at Guilford Pharmaceuticals, which specializes in drugs for such brain disorders as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

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Studies show that people living near a health center are less likely to go to the emergency room and less likely to have unmet critical medical needs.

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But we need continued innovation to address serious medical needs unmet by current medicines or by any other medical intervention.

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