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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016 file photo, former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli attends the House Committee on Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. In 2015, Shkreli reneged on a pledge to lower the price of the life-saving anti-infection drug Daraprim after raising it 5,000 percent. Instead, his company offered hospitals a sliding discount and the option to buy a 30-pill bottle for $22,500 instead of the original 100-pill bottle, which cost $75,000. The $750 price per pill didn’t budge. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Outcry Doesn’t Dent Drug Prices

by Matthew Perrone AP Health WriterNovember 16, 2016

OxyContin pills are arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. Drug overdose deaths rose for the 11th straight year, federal data show, and most of them were accidents involving addictive painkillers despite growing attention to risks from these medicines. As in previous recent years, opioid drugs — which include OxyContin and Vicodin — were the biggest problem, contributing to 3 out of 4 medication overdose deaths. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Messaging Shaped Drug Policy

by Matthew Perrone Associated Press and Center for Public IntegritySeptember 20, 2016

FILE - This Aug. 20, 2013 file photo shows blood donated in Indianapolis. On Friday, Aug. 26, 2016, the Food and Drug Administration recommended that all U.S. blood banks start screening for the Zika virus, a major expansion intended to protect the nation's blood supply from the mosquito-borne disease. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

FDA: Screen All Blood For Zika

by Matthew Perrone AP Health WriterAugust 27, 2016

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf, center, accompanied by Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell, left, US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, second from right, and Food and Drug Administration Center for Tobacco Products Director Mitch Zeller, right, speaks at a news conference at the Hubert H. Humphrey Building in Washington, Thursday, May 5, 2016, to announce new regulation extending the FDA's authority to all tobacco products including e-cigarettes. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Government Will Require Review of E-Cigarettes, Other ‘Vaping’ Products

by Matthew Perrone AP Health WriterMay 6, 2016

Senate Special Committee on Aging Chair Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and the committee's ranking member Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., prepare for their committee's hearing on drastic price hikes by Valeant and a handful of other drugmakers that have stoked outrage from patients, physicians and politicians nationwide, Wednesday, April 27, 2016, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Lawmakers Grill Drug Firm Execs

by Matthew Perrone AP Health WriterApril 28, 2016