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Healthcare doesn’t give a damn about patients

World of DTC Marketing

Pfizer, for instance, hiked the cost of its leukemia medication Besponsa again this month, bringing its per-vial price tag to $21,056. The patient group also spotlighted AAmgen’sprice hikes for its autoimmune disease drug Enbrel. inflation rate.

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Cost of disease-modifying therapies for multiple sclerosis continues to rise in US

Pharmaceutical Technology

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a primary autoimmune disease in which inflammation is a core contributor to the degeneration of the central nervous system (CNS), leading to neurological disability and affecting sensory, visual, motor, and autonomic systems. DMTs for MS have a high price tag, particularly in the US.

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Unconventional Approaches Pharma Is Taking to Engage Patients

PM360

Mason learned that lesson while working with argenx to launch VYVGART (efgartigimod alfa-fcab), the first FDA-approved treatment of its kind for adults with anti-AChR antibody positive generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG), a rare autoimmune neuromuscular disease. We also put big pull tags on the little pouches that held the items.

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