Johnson & Johnson maintains its game-changing antibiotic bedaquiline for drug-resistant tuberculosis is priced "fairly" at $400 for a six-month course, and terms calls by public health advocates to cut the cost to $1 a day “not realistic.”
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Johnson & Johnson is maintaining that its planned $400 price for a six-month course of bedaquiline that kicks in early this month for many tuberculosis-affected countries is sustainable and fair.
“That $400 is equivalent to the cost of many of the old generic antibiotics that don’t work” for treating drug-resistant...
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