STAT+: Pharmalittle: Bluebird’s sickle-cell screwups may prompt a sale; drugmakers raised prices on widely used meds without new clinical evidence

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s historic approval of the first gene therapies for sickle cell disease sparked discussion, debate, and, above all, measured optimism at this year’s meeting of the American Society of Hematology, STAT
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