ZURICH: Novartis aims to give away 100 doses of its US$2.1 million-per-patient Zolgensma for spinal muscular atrophy in 2020 in a free-drug program that one patient group worried was a"health lottery" that could neglect some babies.
But regulatory decisions in Europe and Japan have been delayed until 2020, curbing access that Novartis hopes to partially address with free medicine where such giveaways are allowed. Rival Swiss drugmaker Roche is expecting approval for its investigational oral medicine risdiplam by May.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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