The Hill reports on testimony by Sen. Al Franken, in which he urged Congress to create incentives for medical device companies to pursue solutions to rare diseases.
"I'm concerned that we still don't have equivalent incentives for devices as we have for drugs," Franken said during a Senate health committee hearing.
Medical device companies say they need government incentives to pursue treatments for rare diseases for which the market is too small to turn a profit.
Read the entire report from The Hill here.