The FDA has approved a powerful medicine that uses the gene-editing tool CRISPR to treat sickle cell disease The devastating illness affects more than 100,000 Americans, the majority of whom are Black
The groundbreaking approval has been eagerly anticipated by patients and doctors alike. The treatment is expected to be extremely expensive.
Dosent mean anything till coverage and don’t frustrate the FDA.
On AVERAGE, it costs 1 billion dollars to discover, develop, test, bring a drug to market. With 100K patients, that's 10K ea. total. Not cheap, but not $2.2M PER TREATMENT. $10K could be recouped over 5 yrs for $167/mo. (no, I did not calculate interest). Still pricey, but doable if socialized.
Some may ask are we playing God? The answer is yes quite clearly we are and it's good. God f***** up when he created this anomaly, and we're correcting that mistake. All praise be to science.
Excited to see all the forthcoming conspiracy theories about how this is Literally Genocide.
Boy, it sure is great how we allow profit to steer development and deployment of healthcare solutions. Love that patent system totally designed the modern world.
Crispr is supposed to be cheap and easy. It is expected that the drug company will charge upwards of $1 million for treatment.
I hope this works, is safe, and is made widely available to all who need it!
It will cost $2 million.
It also affects people in many other countries - the majority of whom are also black. It's not just an American disease.
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