Martin Shkreli, the former hedge fund manager vilified for buying a pharmaceutical company and jacking up the price of a life-saving drug more than fiftyfold, has been arrested on securities fraud charges unrelated to the furore.

Hillary Clinton may have found the perfect target to show that she’ll be as tough on corporations as her Democratic presidential rival, Bernie Sanders: Big Pharma.

THIS has not been a good week for tooth-and-claw capitalism. The excesses of the process and its utter indifference to the common good have been highlighted in startling ways that demand a meaningful international response.

A US company that raised the price of a drug for treating a deadly parasitic infection by more than 5,000% says it will roll back some of the increase.

The chief executive of a US pharmaceutical company has defended his firm’s decision to raise the price of an Aids medication by more than 5,000% practically overnight.