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bluebird bio wins back-to-back landmark FDA approvals for first-in-class gene therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

Spark Therapeutics’ Luxturna, indicated for inherited retinal disease (IRD), was the first gene therapy to be approved, in 2017, with a price tag of $850,000 for each eye. Gene therapies for rare inherited diseases are very expensive, as they tend to be the only therapeutic option available to patients and are often curative.

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Grand Rounds April 14, 2023: RECOVER in Action – Status of Clinical Trial Protocols (Kanecia Zimmerman, PhD, MD, MPH)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

This broad set of clinical conditions and varied underlying causes underscore the need for testing a broad portfolio of therapeutic agents. RECOVER is a patient-centered, integrated, adaptive research network. It seems the most severely affected people came from the early waves of COVID.

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Upcoming sickle cell gene therapies cost effective at $2 million, says ICER

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Released on April 12, the report focuses on bluebird bio’s lovotibeglogene autotemcel and Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics’ exagamglogene autotemcel or exa-cel and their potential use in treating sickle cell disease. million to achieve $150,000 per QALY gained from a healthcare system perspective.

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Rare Disease Spotlight – tracing the rise of orphan drug designations over almost 40 years

Pharmaceutical Technology

For example, while orphan drug designations have more than doubled in the last decade compared to the previous one, only 16% of therapies with orphan tags have managed to gain FDA approval in some indications. The total number of designations more than doubled during 2010–21 compared to those given in the preceding decade.

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Risk-sharing agreements are growing at a rate of 24%

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This is not the first treatment to come with a high price tag. 52% of RSAs focus on oncology RSAs are predominantly arranged within oncology (52%) since these drugs typically rely on RSAs to gain reimbursement. million, according to GlobalData’s Price Intelligence (POLI), making it the most expensive drug in the world.

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Biogen’s Aduhelm rollout goes from bad to worse

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Vounatsos also insisted that Aduhelm’s price tag has not been a factor discouraging treatment with the drug. billion, with Tecfidera’s decline offset in part by gains for follow-up drug Vumerity (diroximel fumarate), which brought in $121 million. That dragged down Biogen’s overall revenues, which fell 18% to $2.2

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Oslo Medicines Initiative asks how to balance innovation incentivisation with security of access

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The Oslo Medicines Initiative (OMI), which held its first public webinar event last week, was conceived before the pandemic, but it has gained new relevance as it seeks to address this disparity in Europe, a union of countries with hugely varying income levels. Finding solutions.