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Letters Cheaper treatment for macular degeneration

Time to ask patients about drugs for macular degeneration

BMJ 2017; 359 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j5426 (Published 28 November 2017) Cite this as: BMJ 2017;359:j5426
  1. John W Mackenzie, consultant anaesthetist and former chair of institutional drugs and therapeutics committee
  1. Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading RG1 5AN, UK
  1. jw.mackenziefrca{at}gmail.com

Two of the three treatments we have for wet adult onset macular degeneration are manufactured by the same company—Roche/Novartis. As Cohen explains, now that non-inferiority of outcomes is known, the extreme difference in price continues to cause consternation.1

European law, which exists to protect the public from inferior imports and to promote production of high quality drugs, stipulates that when a drug with marketing …

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