Anonymous ID: 0023a0 Aug. 1, 2019, 7:53 p.m. No.7304183   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4273

>>7304088

I posted this the other day with no traction.

 

They have a cure for Child Cancer.

The COST to patients is beyond belief.

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-2-million-new-novartis-drug-is-priciest-ever-11558731506

 

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 0.80% 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.

Anonymous ID: 0023a0 Aug. 1, 2019, 7:59 p.m. No.7304273   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>7304183

This one too

 

https://www.statnews.com/2017/08/30/novartis-car-t-cancer-approved/

 

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a futuristic new approach to treating cancer, clearing a Novartis therapy that has produced unprecedented results in patients with a rare and deadly cancer. The price tag: $475,000 for a course of treatment.

 

That sounds staggering to many patients — but it’s far less than analysts expected