As US Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) patients may be hit with a 50 to 70 times more expensive price for a steroid they have been importing from the EU and Canada for about $1,000 per year, eight Democratic senators sent a letter on Friday to Marathon Pharmaceuticals questioning the orphan drug Emflaza’s (deflazacort) $89,000 list price, while three Republican senators on Friday also asked the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) to look into orphan drugs in ge...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) on Monday wrote to Illinois-based Marathon Pharmaceuticals CEO Jeffrey Aronin, calling the company’s plan to charge $89,000 annually for its recently approved treatment “outrageous.” Not only did Marathon not develop the steroid, known as Emflaza (Deflazacort) and approved by the US Food and Drug Administration last week to treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, but the letter notes that the steroid is curren...