Tag: Mylan

EpiPen’s price-gouging response “sickens” Congressional panel

Susan Jaffe | Washington Correspondent for The Lancet | 28th September 2016

The latest drug company chief to appear before Congress did not dodge questions by taking refuge in the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self-incrimination, as did Martin Shkreli, the former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticalthe-lancet-usa-blog-logo1s.  But after a nearly four-hour congressional hearing last week investigating spikes in Mylan’s EpiPen prices, Maryland Democrat Elijah Cummings told Mylan CEO Heather Bresch, “You might as well have taken the Fifth, too, with the kind of information that we’ve gotten here today.” [Continued here]