An October 2015 email to Turing Pharmaceuticals from a University of North Carolina professor.
Given your company’s recent move to raise the price of pyrimethamine over 5,000% to an incredible $750 a pill, I have decided not to meet with representatives from Turing. … I am also urging my colleagues here at UNC, as well as at Duke, ECU, Wake Forest and other clinical centers across our state to do likewise, until Turing announces a reasonable and ethical reduction in the price of this important medication — a drug we rely on most to treat toxoplasmosis.
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UD thanks dmf.
February 3rd, 2016 at 2:58PM
This seems like a reasonable response. I won’t use textbooks from several publishers because of their outrageous pricing, and I always let the reps know this is the reason.
February 3rd, 2016 at 3:22PM
tp: Yup. Though you can always assign other books. Turing has this guy by the balls.
February 4th, 2016 at 1:17PM
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/its-not-funny-mr-shkreli-drug-exec-grins-before-congress/ar-BBp7IO0?li=BBnb7Kz
February 5th, 2016 at 3:05PM
http://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2016/feb/05/big-pharmas-worst-nightmare