At six months pregnant, Sonja Lee Finnegan flew from Switzerland to France to buy $20,000 worth of drugs from a person she had never met. The drug she was after, Trikafta, is legal in Switzerland ...

But when she found out about the drug Trikafta, she started thinking, “we can manage this”. Cystic fibrosis is a condition that produces thick and sticky mucus and mainly affects the lungs and ...

Trikafta, made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, is, as its name suggests, a combination of three drugs. It works for 90 percent of patients with cystic fibrosis, and will be priced at $311,000 per year.

Just since the beginning of 2021, Trikafta/Kaftrio has been approved and reimbursed/accessible in 12 countries outside the U.S., including Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Switzerland ...