Turing offers hospitals Daraprim discount

Turing Pharmaceuticals AG (Zug, Switzerland) said it will provide discounts of up to 50% to hospitals on the price of toxoplasmosis drug Daraprim pyrimethamine, but will not cut the drug's list price.

The company came under fire in September for raising the price of the drug fiftyfold (see BioCentury, Sept. 28). ...