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For the second time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has declined to approve an AbbVie therapy for patients with Parkinson’s disease due to problems at a third-party manufacturer, Reuters writes. The company maintained that the agency had not identified issues with the therapy’s safety or efficacy and did not request additional trials. The therapy is a version of carbidopa-levodopa, the standard of care for the disease. It is administered subcutaneously, or under the skin, through an infusion pump in order to improve patients’ motor functions. If approved, analysts estimate $619.67 million in sales for ABBV-951 in 2026, according to LSEG data.
U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) wants the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to investigate why a low-cost generic cancer drug is not widely available to patients, The Hill reports. In a letter sent to the agency, Rosen questioned why Medicare patients pay $3,000 a month for abiraterone, a generic oral drug used as part of prostate cancer treatment, when a version that costs $171 is also on the market. The drug is sold by CivicaScript, a nonprofit that works with manufacturers to develop a drug and then partners with insurers, pharmacies, and pharmacy benefit managers to sell it to patients at a fraction of the price it would cost otherwise.
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