Human rare disease medicines recommended for marketing authorisation
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European Union · 2025
Human rare disease medicines recommended for marketing authorisation in the European Union stood at 16 in 2025 (EMA).
- Publisher
- EMA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- EMA’s 2025 annual report shows strong approval numbers for human and veterinary medicines
- Retrieved
- 17 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Sixteen of the recommended human medicines were for the treatment of rare diseases.
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- APA
- European Medicines Agency. (2025). EMA’s 2025 annual report shows strong approval numbers for human and veterinary medicines. Retrieved September 17, 2026, from https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/emas-2025-annual-report-shows-strong-approval-numbers-human-veterinary-medicines. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_JYQQX5HH7JXNA7QVFF4ESPABTP
- MLA
- European Medicines Agency. "EMA’s 2025 annual report shows strong approval numbers for human and veterinary medicines." 2025, https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/emas-2025-annual-report-shows-strong-approval-numbers-human-veterinary-medicines. Accessed 17 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_JYQQX5HH7JXNA7QVFF4ESPABTP.
- Chicago
- European Medicines Agency. "EMA’s 2025 annual report shows strong approval numbers for human and veterinary medicines." 2025. https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/emas-2025-annual-report-shows-strong-approval-numbers-human-veterinary-medicines. Accessed September 17, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_JYQQX5HH7JXNA7QVFF4ESPABTP.
- BibTeX
- @misc{ema2025humanspabtp, author = {{European Medicines Agency}}, title = {EMA’s 2025 annual report shows strong approval numbers for human and veterinary medicines}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_JYQQX5HH7JXNA7QVFF4ESPABTP}, note = {Original source: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/emas-2025-annual-report-shows-strong-approval-numbers-human-veterinary-medicines. Accessed September 17, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- European Medicines Agency · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- EMA’s 2025 annual report shows strong approval numbers for human and veterinary medicines
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- EMA’s 2025 annual report shows strong approval numbers for human and veterinary medicines
- Retrieved
- 17 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 17 September 2026
- Last revision
- 17 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_JYQQX5HH7JXNA7QVFF4ESPABTP