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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

Funny enough, N200 agbo fit cure that sickness o.

Ah...e cost!

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?

Dat sickness isnt main 4 we poor pipple. God created disease bt 4 different individual.

Dat sickness isnt main 4 we poor pipple. God created disease bt 4 different people.

Zonefree:
Funny enough, N200 agbo fit cure that sickness o.

Asinnnn...lol
Funny you

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.

LOL .....
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.The Royal house of Great Britain can afford it.

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

Thanks so much.

Never heard of this before.

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.

It's their business

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.

May God give us good health.

Noted

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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.

End time drug

Tinubu drug is the most expensive drug in the world

Local agbo is better

Zonefree:
Funny enough, N200 agbo fit cure that sickness o.

Hope you know that crap kills your kidney.

Tinubu the drug lord is using a formula to calculate how he can start pushing this drugs now

Does it cure poverty?





Okoro will smuggled it very soon

Health care system is the biggest fraud in the world.

Take COVID-19 as an example

Hmm

We jump am pass.
We no use

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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Over 2.5 billion naira.
Kuku kill the patient. Abi the patient no go die again, after taking the drug?