Pharma Price Probes To Persist With Or Without Shkreli
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
While Martin Shkreli, who was arrested last week and charged with fraud and misappropriating funds, is gone as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals AG – ousted on Dec. 18, with the company's chairman, Ron Tilles, taking over as interim chief – the hellfire over drug pricing he helped to reignite when he jacked up the price of Daraprim (pyrimethamine) by more than 5,000% is nowhere near cooling down.
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