Josh Benner

Tag: medicine

  • The most expensive medicine ever approved

    I heard a fascinating story from NPR last week. The Federal Drug Administration recently approved a new gene therapy that has a whopping $2.125 million dollar price tag. It’s the most expensive drug on the market. The gene therapy is a treatment for a rare disease called Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). According to the NPR…

  • The story of the time I had to go to the Emergency Room

    I’ve gone to the emergency room once in my life. And it was a year ago today. This is that story… So last summer, for a few days, I kept having these shooting pains in my side. At times, they weren’t so bad. At other times, they were terrible. So I sought medical advice (although…