19 September 2016 - The newly approved Sarepta Therapeutics drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy will cost about $300,000 a year for the average patient in the United States, which is less than what some Wall Street analysts had expected.

Sarepta CEO Dr. Edward Kaye said the pricing was “in the middle of the range” for rare disease drugs. “And given the sensitivity to pricing, we tried to be reasonable when looking at all the costs,” he said on a phone call Monday with securities analysts.

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