FDA Approves First-Ever Gene Therapy For Inherited Form of Blindness (sciencealert.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @11:30PM from the first-of-its-kind dept.

schwit1 shares a report from ScienceAlert: In a historic move, the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a pioneering gene therapy for a rare form of childhood blindness, the first such treatment cleared in the United States for an inherited disease. The approval signals a new era for gene therapy, a field that struggled for decades to overcome devastating setbacks but now is pushing forward in an effort to develop treatments for haemophilia, sickle-cell anaemia, and an array of other genetic diseases. Yet the products, should they reach patients, are likely to cost as much as $1 million for both eyes.

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Huh? by Freischutz · 2017-12-20 23:55 · Score: 0, Troll

Yet the products, should they reach patients, are likely to cost as much as $1 million for both eyes.
Ah, the wonders and joys of a privatised helthcare systems run by Wall Street hyenas out to make the biggest possible profit off of your misery with the help of your elected repesentatives in Congress. You pay as you go and it is much cheaper for the individual citizen than the socialist horrors of a universal single payer healthcare system and it is so much more humane.