关于报告
2019年为患有罕见疾病的患者提供了重大和变革性的创新,突出了制造商和监管机构对这些患者的承诺。孤儿批准数量的显着增加已将孤儿的份额从1992年的2%提高到2019年的11%。但是,尽管批准和使用孤儿药的增加和使用,罕见病患者仍在接受治疗方面仍面临障碍。此外,COVID-19的大流行使稀有药物的使用已经混淆了,因为稀有疾病患者在开始新疗法中面临的挑战已受到广泛的卫生系统破坏而加剧。必威手机APP本报告讨论了罕见疾病治疗的当前创新,总体药物支出水平和增长的趋势以及Covid-19对患者的影响。
报告摘要
2019年,稀有疾病的治疗方法取得了重大进展,强调了制造商和监管机构对患者的承诺。该报告发现,自《孤儿药法》通过以来,孤儿的适应症现在已经达到了838,并已被授予564种不同的药物,其中包括尖端基因和核苷酸疗法在内的变革性创新。除了新的治疗方法外,制造商继续进行多个孤儿指示的投资和承诺导致有资格治疗的患者数量增加。例如,截至2019年,有90%的囊性纤维化患者有资格接受靶向治疗,而2012年只有4%。In addition to innovation, the report also examines overall levels of orphan medicine spending and cost and finds that invoice spending on orphan indications accounted for 11% of the United States’ $518 billion in invoice spending in 2019. Another significant finding is that approximately 39% of drugs with orphan indications cost more than $100,000 annually, but the average annual cost of an orphan treatment was well below, at $32,000. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected new orphan prescription starts, which are cumulatively down 21% since the beginning of the pandemic. This means that to-date, almost 48,000 new therapy starts have not taken place, a substantial impact to rare disease patients.