At six months pregnant, Sonja Lee Finnegan flew from Switzerland to France to buy $20,000 worth of drugs from a person she had never met. The drug she was after, Trikafta, is legal in Switzerland ...

I got dangerously sick while waiting for double-lung and liver transplants. But then I got a second chance at life after starting Trikafta, even though I have two rare mutations.

Trikafta, made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, is, as its name suggests, a combination of three drugs. It works for 90 percent of patients with cystic fibrosis, and will be priced at $311,000 per year.

But when she found out about the drug Trikafta, she started thinking, “we can manage this”. Cystic fibrosis is a condition that produces thick and sticky mucus and mainly affects the lungs and ...

As expected, the bulk of Vertex's revenue came from its flagship cystic fibrosis (CF) treatment, Trikafta/Kaftrio ... in the United States of $15.50 per pill, it could become a serious revenue ...