Orphan Drugs. Prosperity and Misery

Professor Dr. Waldemar Janiec is retired academic of the Silesian Medical Academy (currently Silesian Medical University). He is a lecturer of Pharmacology and Pharmacodynamics and co-author of the VII edition of Polish Pharmacopeia. In his book “Orphan drugs. Prosperity and Misery”, he displays problems of treating rare disorders and describes many interesting events which accompanied the discovery of drugs, which have been given the name of orphan.