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Everything to Know About the Arrested Drug Price-Hiking CEO Everything to Know About the Arrested Drug Price-Hiking CEO. Victor Luckerson. Updated: Dec 18, 2015 12:48 PM ET | Originally published: Dec 17, 2015. Pharmaceutical company CEO Martin Shkreli first became notorious after he jacked up the price of a life-saving pill by more than $700 a pop earlier this year. Now, the 32-year-old entrepreneur has been arrested for securities fraud in a case tied to a separate pharma company that he used to run.
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- 2/8/2016, 2:36 pm. 1  For not cutting the pill costs and for being rich, Bernie Sanders is throwing Karl Marx’s book at Martin Shkreli, the Big Pharma executive who is responsible for a 4,000% price hike and who also donated $2,700 to Sanders in an attempt to bribe his way out of this.
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- Media captionTuring Pharmaceuticals boss Martin Shkreli had previously defended the price raise. The head of a US pharmaceutical company has defended his company's decision to raise the price of a 62-year-old medication used by Aids patients by over 5,000%.
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The 9 Most Expensive Medicines in the WorldâCourtesy of Big Pharma Hedge funder Martin Shkreli reminded everyone of the sky-high—and seemingly arbitrary—costs of prescription medicines in this country when he bought and immediately increased the price of an established drug used to fight a parasitic infection.
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Martin Shkreli: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know Martin Shkreli’s Net Worth: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know. Martin Shkreli, the CEO of Turning Pharmaceuticals who hiked a life-saving drug's price, was arrested on securities fraud charges.
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Why are HIV meds so expensive, and what can we do about it? Why are HIV meds so expensive, and what can we do about it? Last month, Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli sparked outrage in the HIV community—and beyond—by hiking the price of a generic drug used to treat an opportunistic infection by more than 5,500 percent to $750 a pill.
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Lipitor Lipitor (sold generically as atorvastatin calcium) is Pfizer’s premier cholesterol-lowering drug. With cumulative sales exceeding $130 billion, Lipitor holds the coveted status of the world’s top-selling prescription drug of all time — but not without risks.
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Top 100 Selling Drugs of 2013 News & Perspective. Hypothyroid medication levothyroxine (Synthroid, AbbVie) was the nation's most prescribed drug in 2013, whereas the antipsychotic aripiprazole (Abilify, Otsuka Pharmaceutical) had the highest sales, at nearly $6.5 billion, according to a new report from research firm IMS Health on the top 100 selling drugs in the United States.
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SEC Charges Martin Shkreli With Fraud SEC Charges Martin Shkreli With Fraud. The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Martin Shkreli, former CEO of pharmaceutical company Retrophin, with committing fraud during a five-year period when he also was working as a hedge fund manager.
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Martin Shkreli Martin Shkreli (/ˈʃkrɛli/, born March 17, 1983[3]) is an American businessman and former hedge fund manager.[4][5][6][7] He is the co-founder of the hedge funds Elea Capital, MSMB Capital Management, MSMB Healthcare,[8] co-founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of the biotechnology firm Retrophin, and founder and former CEO of Turing ...
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- Tesla surges to fresh record after Piper Jaffray upgrades to buy, raises price target by 65%. Tesla Inc. shares rocketed another 3% to a fresh record in early trade Monday, after Piper Jaffray upgraded the stock to the equivalent of buy from neutral and raised its price target by 65% to $368 from $223.
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The World's Most Expensive Drugs The World's Most Expensive Drugs Matthew Herper, Forbes Staff I cover science and medicine, and believe this is biology's century. When people talk about expensive drugs, they usually are referring to drugs like Lipitor for high cholesterol ($1,500 a year), Zyprexa for schizophrenia ($7,000 a year) or Avastin for cancer ($50,000 a year).
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Dose Optimization For example, let's take a look at America's best selling brand name medication, LIPITOR. Both the 20mg and 40mg strengths of LIPITOR are similarly AWP priced at $4.77 a table. A simple conversion from two 20mg tablets to one 40mg could save an estimated $1,717 over a 12 month time period.
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Humira Pen topped per-person drug spending in 2016 Humira Pen had the next-largest increase from 2015 – a mere 28% – while the hepatitis C drug Harvoni (ledipasvir/sofisbuvir) had the largest decrease in per-person spending among the top 10, dropping 54%, the report noted.
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Meet the guy behind the $750 AIDS drug Shkreli's company raised the price on a drug called Daraprim from $13.50 a pill to $750 overnight. The Daily Beast quickly declared Shkreli the most-hated man in the United States, surpassing the dentist who killed Cecil the Lion. The drug is used by some AIDS and cancer patients. It's been around for 62 years, but Shkreli's company bought the rights to it from another firm in August. The main use of the drug is to treat life-threatening parasitic infections.
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- But prosecutors say these handsome payoffs were only possible because of an elaborate shell game in which Shkreli used Retrophin cash and assets to pay off discontented investors in his hedge fund, MSMB Capital. — chicagotribune.com, The fascinating legal argument at the heart of the 'Pharma Bro' trial, 10 July 2017.
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- Otezla’s market share. Celgene (CELG) expects Otezla to earn revenue of up to $1 billion in 2016 and in the range of $1.5 billion–$2 billion in 2017. The company has adopted an aggressive pricing strategy to increase Otezla’s prescriptions and market share. Otezla was launched at a 30% discount to the average price of biologic drugs. It’s currently priced 35% lower than its competitor drugs. Celgene plans to continue with this pricing strategy to dominate the I&I (immunology and inflammation) space in 2016.
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Top 100 Most Prescribed, Top Selling Drugs After aripiprazole, the next best selling drugs for the period April 2013 through March 2014 were esomeprazole magnesium (Nexium, AstraZeneca) at nearly $6.3 billion, and the arthritis drug adalimumab (Humira, AbbVie), at $5.9 billion.
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Drug price increases 5,000 percent overnight The rights to Daraprim were purchased in August by a new company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, which promptly increased the price from $13.50 per tablet to $750 per tablet -- a 5,000 percent jump -- the New York Times reported.
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J&J, Pharmacyclics slap $130,000 price on Imbruvica for rare lymphoma Another cancer drug approval, another nosebleed-level price. Johnson & Johnson and Pharmacyclics' breakthrough drug Imbruvica (ibrutinib) won FDA approval yesterday for a rare form of lymphoma. Soon after, the companies said Imbruvica would be priced at more than $90 per pill. At four pills per day, that's about $130,000 per year.
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Here's How Much Martin Shkreli Is Actually Worth Here’s How Much Martin Shkreli Is Actually Worth. Update 2/4: Since this article was published the value of Shkreli's E*Trade account has dropped by more than $40 million. On his way out of jail last month, Martin Shkreli dropped a major clue about his riches, federal prosecutors disclosed Thursday. After the hedge fund manager turned biotech CEO was arrested in December on allegations that he plundered his own companies in a Ponzi-like scheme, Shkreli was released after putting up a $5 million bond.
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- By Michael E. Miller By Michael E. Miller September 23, 2015. Former hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli has the Internet ablaze after hiking the price of the drug that's been on the market for decades. Here's what happened. (Gillian Brockell/The Washington Post) By now, you’ve probably heard of Martin Shkreli. Over the past week, the 32-year-old has become Public Enemy No. 1 thanks to his company’s decision to raise the price of a lifesaving drug by more than 4,000 percent, from $1,130 to $63,000.
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Pharmaceutical industry gets high on fat profits In the UK, for example, there was widespread anger when the industry regulator predicted energy companies' profit margins would grow from 4% to 8% this year. Last year, five pharmaceutical companies made a profit margin of 20% or more - Pfizer, Hoffmann-La Roche, AbbVie, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Eli Lilly. 'Profiteering' With some drugs costing upwards of $100,000 for a full course, and with the cost of manufacturing just a tiny fraction of this, it's not hard to see why.
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