Health Care & Hospital Law
Aug. 12, 2010
Patients Push for Fabry Drug Fix
Patients who take an enzyme replacement therapy the reduces the symptoms of the genetic disorder want the government to use a seldom-used law to wrest exclusive rights away from Genzyme Corp.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Only one drug approved in the United States prevents the symptoms of Fabry disease.
That's why patients who take Fabrazyme, an enzyme replacement therapy that reduces the symptoms of the genetic disorder, want the government to invoke a seldom-used law to wrest exclusive rights away from Genzyme Corp., to increase production of the scarce and costly drug it originally brought to t...
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