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UK: Pfizer and Flynn accused of overcharging

By  |  August 9, 2015

Pfizer and Flynn Pharma are under investigation amid claims they charged “excessive and unfair” prices for a widely-used epilepsy drug in the UK.

The probe by the Competition and Markets Authority is focusing on phenytoin sodium, a drug that has been used to treat epilepsy for decades, which is manufactured by Pfizer but sold in the UK by Flynn Pharma.

It is estimated that around 50,000 people in the UK take phenytoin to control tonic-clonic and focal seizures caused by epilepsy as well as those caused by head trauma or brain surgery.

Pfizer’s brand name for the drug in the UK was Epanutin and according to the CMA the NHS spent around £2.3m on the drug before it sold the UK distribution rights to Flynn Pharma in 2012, which promptly de-branded the product.

Full content: Mail Online

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