Scottish Funding No For Two Orphans As SMC Tries To Catch Up After COVID-19 Backlog
Executive Summary
Two orphan drugs, Chiesi’s Proscybi and Insmed’s Arikayce, were rejected for funding on the Scottish National Health Service.
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