The process of inventing, developing and testing new pharmaceuticals.
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Do typical modern pharmaceutical firms spend more on marketing than on R&D?
In Pharmageddon, David Healey alleges the following:
Where the research and development budgets of large pharmaceutical companies like Lilly and Pfizer were once much greater than their marketing ...
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Are 90% of new drugs useless?
An article in the german online newspaper Spiegel Online starts with the headline
90 Prozent aller neuen Medikamente taugen nichts (90 percent of new drugs are no good)
The article is a about a ...
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Have any “cures” been invented since the 1950's or so?
A well reputed professor of neurology once mentioned to me that no drugs have been invented to cure human afflictions since the 1950's or 60's. Are there any drugs that have been invented since that ...
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Is drug development far cheaper than Big Pharma wants us to believe?
In an article titled "The Make-Believe Billion - How drug companies exaggerate research costs to justify absurd profits" in Slate the author writes about a new study about the costs of drug ...
