The lowest available national prices of drugs to treat obesity are up to 20x higher than the estimated cost of profitable generic versions of the same agents, according to a new analysis. weightlossdrugs TwitteRx
combined now," senior author Andrew Hill, MD, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, pointed out."Millions of lives have been saved by treating infectious diseases at low cost in poor countries," Hill continued."Now we need to repeat this medical success story, with mass treatment of diabetes and clinical obesity at low prices."Eric A.
"Greater use of cost-effectiveness analysis and direct negotiations, while maintaining the patent system, represents an appropriate approach for allocating scarce healthcare resources in the United States and beyond," they continue. New medications for obesity were highly effective in recent clinical trials, but high prices limit the ability of patients to get these medications, Levi and colleagues write.
The researchers assessed the price of a 30-day supply of each of the studied branded drugs based on the lowest available price from multiple online national price databases.
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