Keyword: toxoplasmosis

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“Pharma Bro” Ordered to Pay $7.4 Million

09.03.2018 - Martin Shkreli, who gained notoriety in 2015 for jacking up the price of Daraprim (pyrimethamine), a 62-year-old drug used to treat toxoplasmosis, has been ordered by a US federal...

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Jury Convicts Martin Shkreli of Fraud

09.08.2017 - Martin Shkreli, the eccentric former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, who made headlines in 2015 by jacking up the price of Daraprim (pyrimethamine), a 62-year-old drug used to treat...

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Turing Chief Arrested for Securities Fraud

22.12.2015 - Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharma, which made headlines by raising the price of the 62-year-old drug, Daraprim (pyrimethamine) from $13.50 to $700 a tablet shortly after...

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Express Scripts to List Dariprim Alternative for $1

02.12.2015 - Express Scripts Holding, the biggest pharmacy benefits manager in the US, said it plans to list Imprimis Pharmaceuticals’ cheaper alternative to the toxoplasmosis treatment...

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Imprimis Touts Cheaper Daraprim Alternative

26.10.2015 - California-based Imprimis Pharmaceuticals is touting a customizable compounded formulation of pyrimethamine and leucovorin as a low cost alternative to Daraprim, the drug that made...

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Valeant under Pressure From US Legislators

30.09.2015 - Shares of US-listed Canadian drugmaker Valeant came under additional severe pressure early this week when Democratic party members on the House of Representative committee on...

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Turing Says it Will Cut Daraprim Price

25.09.2015 - Turing Pharmaceutical, the company that sparked an angry backlash for raising the US price of Daraprim (pyrimethamine), a drug for treating the deadly parasitic infection...