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Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by Nobody: 11:47am On Dec 01, 2022
Hemgenix, a single-dose cure for a form of the blood-clotting disorder hemophilia, recently set a new world record for the most expensive drug ever at a whopping $3.5 million per dose.

On Tuesday, The US Food and Drug Administration approved Hemgenix, a cutting-edge gene therapy designed to treat adults with hemophilia B, a serious genetic disorder in which people do not produce a critical protein needed to clot blood in case of bleeding.

Until now, typical treatments required routine injections to maintain sufficient levels of the missing protein in patients, but thanks to Hemgenix, sufferers of hemophilia B require a single IV infusion to be cured forever.

The only problem is that that single dose costs no less than $3.5 million, making Hemgenix the most expensive drug ever.

“Today’s approval provides a new treatment option for patients with Hemophilia B and represents important progress in the development of innovative therapies for those experiencing a high burden of disease associated with this form of hemophilia,” Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said.

According to a recent cost-effectiveness analysis by the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, an independent nonprofit research organization, a fair price for Hemgenix would be between $2.93 million and $2.96 million, which is still ridiculously prohibitive for the average person.

Still, despite its steep price, many believe that Hemgenix has a chance to be successful, for two reasons: existing therapies for hemophilia B are also incredibly expensive, and people with the condition live in constant fear of bleeds that could cost them their lives.

Gene therapies have been getting more expensive over the years. Back in 2018, we wrote about Luxturna, a single-dose gene therapy treatment for inherited blindness, which at the time was the world’s most expensive drug. It cost “only” $850,000.

To claim the title of ‘world’s most expensive drug’, Hemgenix dethroned Zynteglo, a treatment for the blood disorder beta thalassemia, priced at $2.8 million.
Source: https://www.odditycentral.com/news/worlds-most-expensive-drug-costs-3-5-million-per-dose.html

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by Zonefree(m): 11:52am On Dec 01, 2022
Funny enough, N200 agbo fit cure that sickness o.

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by LordIsaac(m): 11:54am On Dec 01, 2022
Ah...e cost!

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by LeoDeKing: 11:59am On Dec 01, 2022
So what's the purpose of that symbol of a propagating EM wave in the pictures?

Is that its principle of curing whatever it cures?

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by muyico(m): 12:22pm On Dec 01, 2022
Dat sickness isnt main 4 we poor pipple. God created disease bt 4 different individual.

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by muyico(m): 12:22pm On Dec 01, 2022
Dat sickness isnt main 4 we poor pipple. God created disease bt 4 different people.

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by dawnomike(m): 12:31pm On Dec 01, 2022
Zonefree:
Funny enough, N200 agbo fit cure that sickness o.
Asinnnn...lol
Funny you

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by LIVINGICONREBOR: 11:46pm On Dec 01, 2022
LeoDeKing:
So what's the purpose of that symbol of a propagating EM wave in the pictures?

Is that its principle of curing whatever it cures?

That is no electromagnetic wave but the double helix dna strand. angry

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by kingharzy: 1:13am On Dec 02, 2022
LOL .....
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.The Royal house of Great Britain can afford it.

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by LeoDeKing: 6:48am On Dec 02, 2022
LIVINGICONREBOR:


That is no electromagnetic wave but the double helix dna strand. angry
Thanks so much.

Never heard of this before.

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by Hezbola: 10:10am On Dec 02, 2022
LeoDeKing:
So what's the purpose of that symbol of a propagating EM wave in the pictures?

Is that its principle of curing whatever it cures?
that's a double helix DNA strand. Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid. The DNA carries genetic info from parents to their offsprings.

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by Fidinno(m): 3:06pm On Dec 26, 2022
It's their business
Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by lessonotes(f): 3:06pm On Dec 26, 2022
No time for too much grammar, in one minute, just Thank Baba God for all your body organs are working perfectly. If you're healthy, you won't know the worth.

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by OgaTheTop2: 3:06pm On Dec 26, 2022
May God give us good health.

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by socialmediaman: 3:06pm On Dec 26, 2022

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by mytime24(f): 3:06pm On Dec 26, 2022
Noted
Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by Amuluonyenaego: 3:06pm On Dec 26, 2022
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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by FalseProphet1(m): 3:06pm On Dec 26, 2022
I see the remix of this drug hitting Nigeria, I see it sold for #3,500 at main market and ariaria, I see it serving the same purpose as the original.

I see patients who have been cured by the Nigerian version of the drug saying that oyibo people like wasting money unnecessarily.

This I have seen.

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by Nobody: 3:06pm On Dec 26, 2022
End time drug

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by tydi(m): 3:07pm On Dec 26, 2022
grin

Tinubu drug is the most expensive drug in the world

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by blamingthedevil: 3:07pm On Dec 26, 2022
Local agbo is better

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by Salmoneus(m): 3:07pm On Dec 26, 2022
Zonefree:
Funny enough, N200 agbo fit cure that sickness o.


Hope you know that crap kills your kidney.

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by Crystalom5: 3:08pm On Dec 26, 2022
Tinubu the drug lord is using a formula to calculate how he can start pushing this drugs now

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by BOLATINUBU01: 3:08pm On Dec 26, 2022
Does it cure poverty?





Okoro will smuggled it very soon grin

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by gasparpisciotta: 3:08pm On Dec 26, 2022
Health care system is the biggest fraud in the world.

Take COVID-19 as an example

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by DropsMic(m): 3:08pm On Dec 26, 2022
Hmm

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by MANNABBQGRILLS: 3:08pm On Dec 26, 2022
We jump am pass.
We no use lipsrsealed

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by HeartlessMan: 3:08pm On Dec 26, 2022
LeoDeKing:
So what's the purpose of that symbol of a propagating EM wave in the pictures?

Is that its principle of curing whatever it cures?

School na scam, school na scam, now see the result

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by Tecnophone: 3:08pm On Dec 26, 2022
big sickness for rich people. God is great.

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Re: Hemgenix: This Is World’s Most Expensive Drug And It Costs $3.5 Million Per Dose by WibusJaga: 3:09pm On Dec 26, 2022
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Over 2.5 billion naira. shocked
Kuku kill the patient. Abi the patient no go die again, after taking the drug? cheesy

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