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Martin Shkreli may face additional charges of securities fraud concerning his involvement with Retrophin, a drug company that he ran before heading Turing Pharmaceuticals, Reuters reports. At a federal court hearing in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Tuesday, a prosecutor said the added charges could be filed within a month.

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The US Food and Drug Administration warned of rare cases in which patients taking the Abilify antipsychotic pill experienced uncontrollable urges to gamble, binge eat, shop and engage in sex, STAT tells us. The drug was approved 13 years ago and, since then, only 167 reports of significant impulse-control problems were reported. In the United States, 1.6 million patients received Abilify prescriptions last year.

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