Aaron Kesselheim on Niche Drugs

What happens when a drug is critical to patients, but a commercial failure?

15-month-old Christian
Erica Mumm, with her children and husband, holds her 15-month-old son Christian, who has severe epilepsy, at home in New Hartford, Connecticut. (Kevin Hagen/For The Washington Post)

Drug companies’ investor-driven business model allows them to make risky research bets to develop innovative drugs. But at the end of the day, it means products that are essential to sick people are being made by businesses.

Center faculty member Aaron Kesselheim is quoted.

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