Wednesday, March 20, 2013

The Real Cost of the Epanutin Scandal | binscombe.net

Last year I published two posts on the scandalous price rise in the cost of Epanutin (phenytoin), an important treatment for epilepsy. You can read the posts here and here, but in short, here is the gist of what happened: Pfizer, the manufacturers of Epanutin, struck a deal with Flynn Pharma, a far smaller pharmaceutical company. Pfizer would continue to make the drug in the same way as before, but Flynn would now re-brand it, and in the process they would increase the price over 23-fold.via binscombe.net

http://binscombe.net/blog/?p=597#

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