Patients renew call for urgent access to expensive ‘life-saving’ drugs Orkambi and Symkevi
Cystic fibrosis patients in Scotland have called for an end to their “tragic wait” after the rejection by an NHS watchdog of two expensive new drugs that they believe would change the lives of children and young adults with the condition.
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