Do-It-Yourself Blood Drug May Help CSL Eclipse Baxter
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Sara Ahrens pinches her thigh, pushes a half-inch needle into her skin and turns on a pump. Then she sits back to watch “Grey’s Anatomy” at her Long Beach, California, home as life-saving liquid flows into her body.
Ahrens is one of about 10 million people worldwide whose bodies don’t produce enough antibodies, leaving them vulnerable to infections healthy people fend off without help. Last month, the 36-year-old teacher began home injections of the Hizentra immune-system booster from CSL Ltd., ending a seven-year ritual of monthly trips to a clinic to have rival products pumped into a vein.