Drugs, lotteries and much more! Sicker Than Your Average Health Show (STYAHS) is releasing our first episode, where we talk about the most expensive drug in the world and how you can get it.

Join us as we dig into the headlines you might know and more about the ones you don’t.

Credits

Logo design: Brad Hart

Musical theme: Don’t Wake Me Up – by Indian Summer. Special thanks to RitualMusic.com

Vocal contributions from: Kassie, Joel, Hosam, Mackenzie, Lucas, Mike, Kim, Chris, Athina, and Sarah

Guest: Dr. Stan Bardal

Twitter & Instagram: @SickHealthShow

Music: https://www.ritualmusic.com/

Research For Today’s Show:

https://cadth.ca/onasemnogene-abeparvovec

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/canadian-baby-with-spinal-muscular-atrophy-to-get-world-s-most-expensive-drug-1.5153521

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-08-20/how-parents-get-zolgensma-the-world-s-most-expensive-drug

https://www.uptodate.com/contents/spinal-muscular-atrophy

https://curesma.ca/about-spinal-muscular-atrophy/

https://www.keionline.org/charity-nih-funding-related-to-zolgensma

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/drug-gene-therapy-lottery-cheo-ethics-orphan-disease-1.5420371

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/sky-high-cost-sma-treatment-spinraza-1.5085211

https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2020/average-cost-developing-new-drug-could-be-15-billion-less-pharmaceutical#:~:text=The%20study%20estimated%20that%20the,as%20high%20as%20%242.8%20billion.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/10/doctors-with-borders/503786/

https://www.msf.org/when-free-not-fair-case-vaccine-donations