Members of a clan can recognise each other by their smell. The badger has a special opening (called the subcaudal gland) under its tail, which produces a smelly liquid called musk. This musk is a soapy cream-coloured fatty substance (a bit like margarine in colour and texture).
The total average cost of the TAVI procedure was â¬ 22,876, of which 85% was attributable to the valve price, 7% to other material, 7% to staffing and 1% to logistics (Table 2).
Billions of Dollars in Play. But never mind those unanswered questions and the multiple problems with the PARADIGM-HF trial, Entresto, the trade name for valsartan-sacubitril will not be cheap. Per the NY Times, Novartis said Entresto would cost about $12.50 a day, or about $4,500 for a year....Novartis wants to convince you that it's not really that expensive. Mr Epstein said the price was 'really quite reasonable,' given that some drugs for other diseases cost many times that amount and confer less benefit.xpectations for Entresto have been building since it won early U.S. approval and Novartis set a higher than expected price, with analysts now forecasting $4.7 billion of sales in 2020, according to Thomson Reuters Cortellis.