In spite of the small drop of price, this gene therapy injection is still more expensive than almost every other medication, but it’s the first one that can treat an inherited condition. It has proven to improve vision for those with a rare form of inherited blindness that is estimated to affect less than 2,000 people in the US.
This injection uses a virus to deliver a replacement gene into the retina tissue of people who were born with a mutation that causes blindness. The treatment costs, $425,000 per injection and sufferers need one for each eye. These genetic therapies can be used one time, and this sets them apart from traditional drugs.
“We wanted to balance the value and the affordability concerns with a responsible price that would ensure access to patients,” said Spark Therapeurics CEO Jeffrey Marrazzo.
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Ethe foreign companies that assume that Americans are so rich that they can just ‘come up with any amount if they really want to’ are the vultures of humanity that would rather see their drugs go out of date unused on the shelf than see human beings be helped. It’s a sick system that victimizes the poorest in America as well as other nations. The income and bonuses and health coverage of that company’s CEO should be leaked to the media along with the number of blind people who cant be helped due to their greed.