Endocrinology and Metabolic Disorders

NICE Rejects Gilead Sciences’ Yescarta on Cost Concerns The United Kingdom’s government-funded health service isn’t being so nice to Gilead Sciences’ CAR-T blood cancer treatment Yescarta. The country’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) said the therapy is too expensive for the agency to justify. The announcement by the U.K. agency came one day after Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel) received approval from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for use across the European Union. Yescarta is the first CAR-T treatment in Europe to be approved for two types of aggressive non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. In the United States, tre...