Anons, did we miss this?
Barbaric big pharma!
May 2019
At $2 Million, New Novartis Drug Is Priciest Ever
Newly approved gene therapy aims to cure a rare muscle-wasting disease that can kill young children
The world’s most expensive medicine is about to hit the market.
A one-time treatment for a devastating infant muscle-wasting disease won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Friday. Its maker Novartis AG NVS 1.30% says the gene therapy will cost $2.125 million.
The therapy, called Zolgensma, treats an inherited disease called spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA, whose victims typically die before the age of two if untreated. It is the latest gene therapy—a technique that introduces new DNA into the body to correct a faulty gene—to win approval.
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