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Amylyx ALS drug draws criticism over $158,000 price tag

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Amylyx Pharmaceuticals’ Relyvrio – a new treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) approved by the FDA on Thursday, after review of the data from its phase 2 trial – was the next day set at a list price of $158,000 per year in the US, sparking outcry. ALS affects over 30,000 people in the US.

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

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Two gene therapies up for approval this year for sickle cell disease could be cost effective in some cases at a $2 million price point, based on a draft evidence report published by the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER). If approved, exa-cel would be the first FDA-approved gene therapy based on CRISPR editing.

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ICER says bluebird bio’s $2.1m gene therapy is cost-effective

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million price tag. ICER’s assessment is still at the draft stage and could be changed after an ongoing comment period, but will be welcomed by bluebird and other gene therapy developers as they try to set a price for their one-shot treatments that will be accepted by payers.

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Novel nanofiltration method for microbial biosurfactant downstream processing

European Pharmaceutical Review

Based on the OSN, the novel approach for the purification of glycolipid microbial biosurfactant, uses only one solvent and reaches a 98 percent purity. However, the price of the cheapest mBs is ten-fold in cost compared to chemical surfactants. The product losses revealed to be around 11.6 percent of MELs lost in the first filtration.

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Advanced therapies and the high-profile pricing dilemma

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However, alongside this progress, Ben Hargreaves finds that there is also a conundrum over how to price these therapies. Firstly, due to the remarkable results that are made possible for patients, such as one-time curative treatments, and also because of the controversy over their pricing. However, with a price tag of €1.58

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Patient adherence – the key to restoring trust in pharma

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Given the high price tags placed on many medications, it’s easy to understand why patients often feel that they are being taken advantage of. This is especially understandable if they don’t have the means to pay for essential, potentially life-saving medications.

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A history of Pfizer

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As a consequence of Pfizer’s innovation, the price of citric acid tumbled over the succeeding decades, with the value of the chemical falling by 5/6ths in 20 years. The 1990s and 2000s would soon take this blockbuster-based success to new levels. For all the latest Pfizer news follow pharmaphorum’s Pfizer tag.