Andrew Pollack

New York Times

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Correspondent for the New York Times, covering the business and science of biotechnology

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Specialists who treat rare diseases are protesting gigantic increases in the prices of old and familiar drugs. The cost of one medicine jumped 5000 percent -- overnight.

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