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October 10, 2018 News by Larry Luxner

Advocacy Groups, Doctors Question Rising Prices of Rare Disease Treatments

Half a year has gone by since disgraced pharma executive Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in federal prison for securities and wire fraud while heading San Diego-based Retrophin. As founder and CEO of another company (then known as Turing Pharmaceuticals), in late 2015 Shkreli bought the rights…

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