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NICE reaches a deal with Roche on access to oral SMA drug Evrysdi

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Roche’s oral treatment Evrysdi for the rare genetic disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) will be made available on the NHS in England, after NICE reached a three-year access agreement with the company. million price tag make it is the most expensive treatment ever approved for NHS funding.

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Orphan drugs and where to launch them: The keys to Europe’s forgotten territories

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Due to the high price tags associated with these speciality medicines, innovators have naturally favoured big markets with high GDP such as the US and EU-5 (Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and the UK). The challenge of providing adequate access to the peripheral EU markets is quite evident. Europe’s forgotten territories.

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FDA slammed over Aduhelm OK as Biogen takes heat for $56k price tag

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” Biogen meanwhile has been taking flak over its decision to price Aduhelm at $56,000 per year, which looks set to re-ignite debate in the US about the cost of medicines. AA provides earlier patient access to a promising treatment but requires sponsors to conduct an additional trial to verify benefit. billion in 2027.

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NICE ‘no’ to Roche’s risdiplam for SMA not unexpected, says patient group

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NICE has rejected routine NHS funding for Roche’s Evrysdi (risdiplam) for spinal muscular atrophy drug in draft guidance, a decision which doesn’t come as a surprise to patient association SMA UK. Comments can be submitted until 23 June.

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

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Additionally, pricing and access for rare disease therapies continue to be scrutinized closely. 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.

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Leading innovators in peptide nano-particle conjugates for the pharmaceutical industry

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Adeno-associated virus vectors, alcohol dehydrogenase compositions, and antibody serum stabilisers are some of the accelerating innovation areas, where adoption has been steadily increasing. Among maturing innovation areas are anti-influenza antibody compositions and anti-interleukin-1, which are now well established in the industry.

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Predicting pandemics with unconventional digital tools

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Giving the Joseph Leiter lecture at this year’s virtual Medical Library Association (MLA) conference Harvard Medical School’s Professor John Brownstein spoke about embracing non-traditional data streams in public health. Many other industries have exploded because they’ve been able to access data,” he said. “If Data inadequacies.