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- At $2.1M, Novartis gene therapy will be world’s most expensive drug https://www.statnews.com/2019/05/24/hold-novartis-zolgensma-approval/ 68 comments
- $3.5M for a Single Treatment?! The World’s Most Expensive Drug https://ecency.com/@trumpman/-most-expensive-fda-drug--hea 2 comments health
- FDA Approves World's Most Expensive Drug Costing $3.5 Million a Patient https://www.businessinsider.com/fda-approves-worlds-most-expensive-drug-costing-35-million-patient-2022-11 14 comments economics
- Canadian breakthrough that became the world's most expensive drug, then vanished, gets second chance https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/glybera-lpld-rare-drug-orphan-disease-nrc-cbc-price-1.5312177 11 comments science
- Children in England with fatal condition to get world’s most expensive drug | Health | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/feb/04/children-in-england-with-fatal-condition-to-get-worlds-most-expensive-drug 13 comments worldnews
- Canadian breakthrough that became the world's most expensive drug, then vanished, gets second chance (1 million dollars per dose) https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/glybera-lpld-rare-drug-orphan-disease-nrc-cbc-price-1.5312177 3 comments worldnews
- Novartis $2 million gene therapy for rare disorder is world's most expensive drug https://in.reuters.com/article/novartis-genetherapy/novartis-2-million-gene-therapy-for-rare-disorder-is-worlds-most-expensive-drug-idinkcn1su2k0 45 comments worldnews
- Canada Wants To Cut Price Of 'World's Most Expensive Drug'; US Manufacturer Sues To Stop It https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150929/09350032390/canada-wants-to-cut-price-worlds-most-expensive-drug-us-manufacturer-sues-to-stop-it.shtml 33 comments worldnews
- Baby has new lease of life after being given worlds most expensive drug costing £1.79m, paid for by the NHS. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-59565966 259 comments worldnews
- In Italy, a girl was treated with the most expensive drug in the world (Onasemnogene abeparvovec). The Italian public health system has taken on all the expenses. https://tg24.sky.it/napoli/2020/12/06/napoli-bambina-salvata-farmaco-costoso 6 comments worldnews
- Pharma giant, Novartis, makes the world’s most expensive drug - a $2.1 million gene therapy for an otherwise fatal neurodegenerative disorder. Few can afford it. Now Novartis has outraged many by holding a lottery to give out 100 treatments for free while 10,000 more remain without access. https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/07/a-lottery-like-no-other-offers-up-a-cutting-edge-medicine-with-lives-on-the-line/ 223 comments worldnews
- Plea for sick toddler denied by Pharmaceutical giant Novartis. Denying request from the Belgian federal government to make the most expensive medicine in the world available for free to the 9 months old toddler. Zolgensma is the most expensive drug in the world, costing €2 million https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/belgium-all-news/health/69128/belgiums-plea-for-sick-toddler-denied-by-pharmaceutical-giant-novartis/ 184 comments worldnews
- Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders just slammed the Swiss drug giant Novartis over a new controversy swirling around the world’s most expensive drug https://www.businessinsider.com/novartiss-zolgensma-data-manipulation-gets-scrutiny-from-us-senators-2019-8 8 comments politics
- The FDA approves Zolgensma as the most expensive drug in the world at $2.1 million a dose. The one-time gene therapy is used for treatment of a rare disease that afflicts infants. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2019/05/24/zolgensma-2-1-million-drug-nations-most-expensive/1223666001/ 3 comments worldnews
- A Simple Way to Improve a Billion Lives: Eyeglasses. More than one billion people around the world need eyeglasses. They can cost as little as $1.50 a pair, but remain underfunded as philanthropic and government money goes towards expensive drugs and procedures. https://nytimes.com/2018/05/05/health/glasses-developing-world-global-health.html 26 comments worldnews
- The real cost of the world's most expensive drug (2015) - Alexion makes a lifesaving drug that costs patients $500K a year. Patients hire PR firm to make a plea to the media not realizing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOVGR4fpnxY 3 comments politics
- "We pay the world's highest health care taxes. But patients are still saddled with unaffordable premiums and deductibles. Meanwhile, billions are squandered on paperwork, and insurers and drug companies pocket huge profits at taxpayer expense." http://www.opposingviews.com/i/health/single-payer-medical-all-gets-huge-boost 3 comments politics
- World’s most expensive drug — which costs up to $700,000 per year — too expensive: Canada’s drug-price regulator has taken the rare step of calling a hearing into what is considered the world’s most expensive prescription medicine, accusing its manufacturer of exceeding the permissible price cap. http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/02/03/worlds-most-expensive-drug-prescription-that-costs-up-to-700000-per-year-too-expensive-canada-says/ 592 comments worldnews
- Keytruda, the first of a flood of new cancer drugs approved to target the PD-1 pathway, will be the 6th most expensive drug in the world at $12,500 per month http://www.healthline.com/health-news/keytruda-new-class-cancer-drugs-091014 9 comments science
- Colonoscopies Explain Why U.S. Leads World in Health Expenditures: While the American medical system is famous for expensive drugs and heroic care at the end of life, a more significant factor in the nation’s annual health care bill may be the high price tag of ordinary services http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/health/colonoscopies-explain-why-us-leads-the-world-in-health-expenditures.html/ 3 comments politics