MPs call for 'life-changing' Kuvan to be made affordable
A number of MPs are calling on a drug company to make a"life-changing" treatment affordable to UK patients., MPs across several parties have written to BioMarin, which markets Kuvan but did not initially discover it.
The MPs, who include Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and shadow chancellor John McDonnell, say that BioMarin did not even discover the drug itself but licensed it from a laboratory in Switzerland. It was then researched, using public money, as a treatment for PKU. However, in their letter, MPs say:"BioMarin currently has no competition for pharmacological treatments for PKU. This monopoly position carries a particular obligation to have regard to your responsibility to patients.
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