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Ron Johnson Calls To Extend Treatment For Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Patients

Published March 10, 2026 | Video Starts at 18:51

So let me add the company, they didn't get a complete approval. The denial. They didn't get the complete denial, so they pulled the drug application so they wouldn't have it be denied. But again, They've been making it [the drug] available for free for 20 years. So this isn't exactly a money maker. A lot of these companies will develop these Drugs as part of their portfolio. (18:51–18:56)

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“Adelurin is available in Russia and other countries in Europe and South America.”
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“10 out of the 11 of those people on that advisory panel said no.”
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“Adelurin has been available under compassionate use, but we're here today because they will no longer have access to it.”
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“Congress has given you, year after year, all the flexibility to show some compassion and err on the side of what the patients want.”
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“Adalarn has helped me and many others [with Duchenne nonsense mutations] to maintain independence and quality of life well into adulthood…”
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“Without FDA approval or continued compassionate use, patients will face rapid decline, loss of essential abilities and preventable…”
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“Apparently there's a blacklist within the FDA of companies who make too much noise.”
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“Last time when they denied or they're going to, you know, they were going to disapprove of a drug. I did contact President Trump and this…”
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“Instead of removing that drug, it put a black box warning on it, which is the appropriate thing to do.”
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“In one of those cases, the complete response letter admitted they didn't look at like four or five of the submissions of information the…”
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“Adalurin, 20 years, it's helped people, they know it's helped people. It hasn't, you know, no reported harmful effects.”
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“It's very difficult to control these agencies.”
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“If there actually was a blacklist, you think they'd give that up?”
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“These companies again doing this for free is going to really reduce the incentive for these companies to address rare diseases.”
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“They'll never make a profit on it.”
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“We will dramatically decrease the number of new drugs available to be tried by people with rare diseases.”
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“Let those families with fully informed consent, let them make the decision. Not some faceless bureaucrat.”
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“Get pressure on the FDA and so they can reverse these horrible decisions.”
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