Specialty Pharmacies Can Provide Support for Synagis Treatment

Following a severe season of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in the U.S., several companies have revealed that they have promising vaccine candidates for various patient populations in the late-stage clinical trial pipeline. The FDA could approve some of them as early as this year, for what is estimated to be a market worth more than $10 billion. Currently, only one agent has FDA approval for RSV prevention, and one specialty pharmacy recently shared with AIS Health, a division of MMIT, how it manages that treatment and members taking it.

The CDC estimates that children younger than 5 years old account for more than 57,000 hospitalizations and about 100 to 500 deaths per year. Older adults experience approximately 177,000 hospitalizations and 14,000 deaths annually, but no FDA-approved treatments indicated for this population are available.

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Angela Maas

Angela Maas

Angela has an extensive background of editing, reporting and writing for trade and consumer publications. She has written Radar on Specialty Pharmacy (formerly called Specialty Pharmacy News) since she joined AIS Health in 2005 and has broad knowledge of the various issues at play within the space. Before joining AIS Health, she was managing editor at Employee Benefit News and Employee Benefit News Canada and managing editor at HemAware (a hemophilia publication), Lupus Living and Momentum (a multiple sclerosis publication). She has a B.A. in English and an M.A. in British literature from Arizona State University.

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