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Ceredase

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Ceredase®
 A recombinant glucocerebrosidase used for Gaucher's disease


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When Congress called Genzyme to task for profiteering, the company's CEO, Henri Termeer, fired back in the pages of The Wall Street Journal that the company had every right to charge what the market would bear, because it had risked everything to develop Ceredase.
The only medicine currently available to treat it, called Ceredase, costs an average of $160,000 a year, said Cramer.
The nonrecombinant products ceredase and adenosine deaminase (PEG-ADA) illustrate the potential impact of chronic lifetime administration of drugs.
 
 
 
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