Aim­mune's peanut al­ler­gy treat­ment could 'change prac­tice' — with safe­ty chal­lenges and a price any­thing but peanuts

Aim­mune Ther­a­peu­tics $AIMT has de­tailed the re­sults of its Phase III study of its peanut al­ler­gy ther­a­py known as AR101 in the New Eng­land Jour­nal of Med­i­cine in an ar­ti­cle — and in­de­pen­dent as­sess­ment — that will like­ly stoke its sup­port­ers as much as the skep­tics in the field. 

And once it is mar­ket­ed, if it gets that far, you can ex­pect a se­vere blow­back on the price, con­sid­er­ing this is a nat­ur­al byprod­uct that al­so has been used at the same dose that costs vir­tu­al­ly noth­ing to make — but wouldn’t have the same stamp of ap­proval that a prod­uct OK’d by the FDA would have.

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