The Price of a Peanut Allergy
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🗓️ 19 September 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
A buzzy new drug to help treat people with a peanut allergy was recommended for approval by an FDA advisory board this week. It would be the first government-approved method intended to combat these kinds of allergic reactions. The story behind that drug helps explain how the cost of many prescription drugs ends up being so high.
Guest: James Hamblin, staff writer at The Atlantic.
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| 0:00.0 | How do I pronounce this drug? |
| 0:05.2 | Palphorcia? |
| 0:06.7 | Well, I've never heard it said. |
| 0:10.0 | I've been saying palphorsia. |
| 0:12.0 | James Hamblin writes for the Atlantic. |
| 0:15.0 | It's so funny. |
| 0:16.0 | They just make this, you know, they actually wanted to make it sound high tech, you know. |
| 0:20.0 | Palfourziah treats peanut allergy. |
| 0:22.8 | Last week, it moved one step closer to getting approved by the Food and Drug Administration. |
| 0:28.1 | In fact, the FDA declared it a breakthrough therapy. |
| 0:31.1 | What is it? |
| 0:31.8 | What's inside of it? |
| 0:33.3 | It's peanut flour. |
| 0:35.4 | Like peanut? |
| 0:36.4 | Peanut? |
| 0:37.3 | Peanut flour? Yeah, actual peanut flour. But they guarantee that it's peanut flour. Like peanut? Peanut? Peanut flower? Yeah, actual peanut flour. |
| 0:39.4 | But they guarantee that it's pure peanut flour. |
| 0:43.7 | The thing is, this drug being made out of something you could find in your grocery store. |
| 0:48.5 | It's not the craziest thing about it. |
| 0:50.9 | And James, who is not just a writer, by the way, he's a physician. |
| 0:55.4 | He can't stop thinking about this peanut flower pill, how it supposedly works, who it supposedly |
| 1:01.5 | helps. |
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