Chemical & Engineering News, Vol.94, No.9, 27-28, 2016
Law meant to permit new drugs is blocking some generics
The only way to boost a price by more than 5,000% is to bend the laws of supply and demand in your favor. Turing Pharmaceuticals and its infamous chief executive, Martin Shkreli, presumably knew this before they upped the price of a tablet of Daraprim from $13.50 to $750.