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Take it to Akin - Daraprim

By Emily Akin, FOX 26 News
Published September 22, 2015
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HOUSTON (FOX 26) - Turing Pharmaceuticals is getting a lot of heat for dramatically raising the price of a drug used to treat toxoplasmosis. 

The drug is called Daraprim.  It's one of the few drugs that can cure Toxoplasmosis, a parasitic infection. Now it may be out of reach for some patients.

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