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Valeant, Glaxo, Novartis Skin Drug Prices Have Soared

Prices for prescription skin drugs to treat everything from acne to skin cancer are skyrocketing, a report out Wednesday found, adding to the public debate about how much drugmakers ought to charge. A study published in JAMA Dermatology said that a survey of 19 brand-name prescription drugs, including those from Valeant Pharmaceuticals (VRX), GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Novartis (NVS), found their prices jumped 401% on average between 2009 and 2015.

Black Friday Hacked: Retailers ‘Already Compromised’

The post-Thanksgiving shopping frenzy will be Christmas come early for cybercriminals already gearing up for a mass credit-card haul on Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday, a Check Point Software Technologies executive told IBD. And if retailers haven’t already fortified their digital bulwarks, customer data are at risk as point-of-sale breaches skyrocket. “There are retailers already compromised right now … they just don’t