Day: March 5, 2020

This week FDA approved the first generic drug version of Daraprim. This drug was made famous about 5 years ago when a company increased its price by 5000% almost overnight due to a manufacturing monopoly and the CEO of the company, Martin Shkreli, became the poster-boy of bad pricing and illegal business practices. The fact … Read more

World’s response to COVID-19, the flu-like disease caused by the latest strain of coronavirus, highlights key aspects of how we would handle any potential pandemic. Although most of the measures to control the spread, rapid diagnosis, and management of the disease have been taken by the Chinese government where the disease originated and has caused … Read more