Cost regulators for NHS therapies in England and Wales have published draft guidelines rejecting funding for Dompé’s cenegermin as a treatment for neurotrophic keratitis, a rare eye condition.
European regulators have agreed to review Italian drugmaker Dompe’s orphan drug Oxervate, opening the door to what may potentially become the first biotech treatment available to patients with the more severe forms of an eye condition called neurotrophic keratitis.