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Rising Pharmaceuticals, the maker of a crucial drug for the most severe cases of lead poisoning, said it plans to start an assistance program to help uninsured and underinsured patients afford the medicine, which costs more than $32,000 per course.
Rising Pharmaceuticals, the maker of a crucial drug for the most severe cases of lead poisoning, said it plans to start an assistance program to help uninsured and underinsured patients afford the medicine, which costs more than $32,000 per course.
In August, the US Food and Drug Administration greenlit a new maker of an old drug used for the most severe cases of lead poisoning, ending a shortage and stopping the need for importation of the medicine from France. The only problem: The new version costs almost 10 times as much as the imported version, about $32,000 per course of treatment.
Though it's rare these days for a child in the U.S. to have blood lead levels that are high enough to require this medicine, it does happen.
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