Examples of Cerezyme in a sentence
Cerezyme, a treatment for Gaucher’s disease and one of the company’s main products, has garnered more than $1 billion in annual sales, though it is used to treat fewer than 6,000 patients.
Check the expiry date printed on the bottom of the vial pack (do not use Cerezyme after the expiry date).
After reconstitution, Cerezyme should be inspected visually before use.
We are told that, as from 1 July 2005, Genzyme has made supplies of Cerezyme available to Careology and Healthcare at Home at a discount of 6.5 per cent off the new NHS list price.
With effect from the beginning of 2005, the NHS list price for Cerezyme was itself reduced by 7 per cent in the context of the PPRS negotiations affecting the pharmaceutical industry as a whole.
We found, at paragraphs [528] and [530] of that judgment, that there was no doubt in our minds that Genzyme’s NHS list price for Cerezyme included the cost of Homecare Services, as defined in the decision, and that provision of Homecare Services is an independent economic activity which is separate from, albeit ancillary to, the supply of the drug Cerezyme (paragraphs [355] to [357] and [532]).
The OFT notes that Genzyme’s latest offer of 6.5 per cent of the new list price of Cerezyme is exactly in the middle of the OFT’s range of between 5.3 per cent and 7.7 per cent.
On that issue we agree with the OFT that in considering delivery costs account needs to be taken of the more complex nature of the delivery process for Cerezyme (Supplementary Report, 3.2 to 3.7).
The underlying vice to which these proceedings are directed is that Genzyme, the dominant supplier of drugs for the treatment of Gaucher disease, has failed or refused to supply such drugs (i.e. Cerezyme) to independent Homecare Services providers at a price such as to enable the latter to operate competitively in the downstream market for Homecare Services, for which there is a separate demand.
There would, however, be nothing to prevent the OFT from modifying the direction at some later date if it were satisfied that changes in NHS funding arrangements and procedures were such as to obviate the need to maintain an NHS list price for Cerezyme in the sense traditionally understood.