Alexion Battles UK & France Over Kanuma Price
Executive Summary
Alexion is blaming arbitrary pricing systems in Europe for its reimbursement woes with ultra-rare disease drug Kanuma, but one analyst told the Pink Sheet that more creativity is needed from pharma when it comes to pricing orphan therapies.
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