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Cancer patient nearly went broke paying for Hugin cancer drug in new Menendez ad

October 18, 2018 1:26 pmOctober 18, 2018 1:26 pm

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez today released a new TV ad that features a South Jersey cancer patient who says he nearly lost his home to pay for a life-saving drug sold by Republican Bob Hugin’s pharmaceutical company. Mark Wilson, a...

Booker calls news that Hugin discounted cancer drug in Russia a ‘mortal blow’

August 7, 2018 1:17 am

U.S. Senator Cory Booker says he was stunned by the revelation that Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Hugin sold a cancer drug in Russia for about the half the price in the United States. “To me, I think it’s a...

Hugin doubled price of live-saving cancer drug, report says

July 23, 2018 10:00 amJuly 23, 2018 11:49 pm

Jackie Trapp was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a terminal but treatable blood cancer in 2015. After chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, she was put on Revlimid, a live-saving cancer drug that costs $21,197 a month. Even with good health...

Super PAC spends $1.5 million attacking Hugin

July 12, 2018 10:46 pmJuly 15, 2018 1:52 pm

A new super PAC, Patients for Affordable Drugs Action, is spending an estimated $1.5 million on a TV ad slamming Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Hugin for earning more than $100 million as head of a pharmaceutical company that raised...