Table 2 Number of diseases and medicinal products per category
Number | |
|---|---|
Diseases | |
Total | 134 |
Metabolic/inborn errors | 40 |
Neurologic | 20 |
Hematologic | 24 |
Inflammatory | 23 |
Endocrine | 11 |
Pulmonary | 5 |
Immunologic | 2 |
Miscellaneous | 9 |
Medicinal products | |
Total medicinal products (MP) | 204 |
Drugs | 125 |
Biologics | 79 |
MP for metobolic diseases | 51 |
MP for neurologic diseases | 34 |
MP for hematologic diseases | 43 |
MP for inflammatory diseases | 28 |
MP for endocrine diseases | 15 |
MP for pulmonary diseases | 22 |
MP for immunologic diseases | 3 |
MP for miscellaneous | 9 |
MP used to treat multiple diseases | 6 |
MP approved by the FDA | 139 |
MP approved by the EMA | 160 |
MP approved by the NMPA | 51 |
MP on the WHO list of essential medicines (2019) | 25 |