Hemlibra reduces treatment cost while improving health of people with hemophilia A, says ICER

19 March 2018

The USA’s Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) has released an Evidence Report assessing the comparative clinical effectiveness and value of Hemlibra (emicizumab).

The report found that emicizumab, from Swiss pharma giant Roche’s (ROG: SIX) subsidiary Genentech, offers important improvements in outcomes for people with hemophilia A and inhibitors to Factor VIII, while lowering costs associated with the treatment of this condition.

Emicizumab was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in November of 2017 for prophylaxis (prevention of bleeding) in adults and children who have hemophilia A with coagulation factor VIII inhibitors. Factor VIII is the clotting protein that is deficient in those with hemophilia A, and inhibitors interfere with the factor replacement therapy that would typically be used to treat the condition.

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