Acupressure and gentle massage can be used to treat a pinched nerve. Acupuncture may treat a pinched nerve. The main treatment for a pinched nerve is rest. A woman with neck pain from a pinched nerve.
Yervoy is the first drug approved for treating this indication. The FDA has not approved any new first-line medicines in over ten years. A dosage of Yervoy is expected to cost about $30,000; therapy of four infusions over three months will cost around $120,000. The drug is estimated to have a market of more than $400m in 2011.
In cancer drug development, immunotherapies are hot, with none more closely watched than Bristol-Myers Squibb's nivolumab. Now, we have a window into the drug's future. What that glimpse tells us is that outsize cancer drug prices are about to rise even higher. As The Wall Street Journal reports, Bristol-Myers and its marketing partner Ono Pharmaceutical have rolled out nivolumab in Japan, the first and only country where it's approved by regulators. Name: Opdivo. Price: $143,000.