In case you needed one more reason to despise the United States pharmaceutical industry, here it is. Connecticut-based Alexion Pharmaceuticals has earned over $6 billion in revenue over the past eight years by selling Soliris, a drug widely known as the most expensive in the world. Soliris treats two rare blood diseases
Fantastic work, keyboard warriors! The most evil man in the world of the 39th week of 2015, Martin Shkreli, says he will lower the price of a life-saving drug he inflated by 5000 per cent just two days ago. “I think that it makes sense to lower the price in response
Yesterday we told you the story of Martin Shkreli, the 32-year-old weasel who bought a drug that’s been around for over six decades and raised the price by 5000% per cent overnight so his company could “turn a profit on [it].” Shkreli used to be a hedge fund manager and evokes
[ad_bb1] A few months ago we reported that flibanserin, the “female Viagra” with an astoundingly un-arousing name, could be on the verge of approval pending a few tweaks to remedy its concerning side-effects. Well, those tweaks weren’t really made – but it’s been approved anyway. The drug is the first
You may want to put down that beer if you want to avoid a future of lighting freebase cocaine in a spoon to have a good time. We always knew those PSAs of the 80s depicting weed as a prerequisite to impending illicit drug use were mostly bullshit, but there’s finally some
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