{"id":60647,"date":"2023-05-23T22:06:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T14:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=60647"},"modified":"2023-05-23T22:06:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T14:06:11","slug":"commentary-how-can-singapore-help-those-with-rare-diseases-afford-life-saving-gene-therapy-that-costs-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=60647","title":{"rendered":"Commentary: How can Singapore help those with rare diseases afford life-saving gene therapy that costs millions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zolgensma, used to treat a rare but often fatal genetic disease, has been approved in Singapore. It is an opportunity to rethink how innovative, expensive gene therapies are financed, say doctors Ng Qin Xiang, Chan Hwei Wuen and Jeremy Lim.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/commentary\/singapore-healthcare-expensive-gene-therapy-zolgensma-rare-disease-3494681\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zolgensma, used to treat a rare but often fatal genetic disease, has been approved in Singapore. It is an opportunity to rethink how innovative, expensive gene therapies are financed, say doctors Ng Qin Xiang, Chan Hwei Wuen and Jeremy Lim.Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":60648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-60647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sgnews","tag-cna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}