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Re:How I Got the $84k Hepatitis C Drug for $1500 by Buying I... by forgotpwagain on Sunday May 08, 2016 @10:22PM (#11657214)
Typically quoted values are (in the current market), approx. $2-3B per product brought to market.

Drug development is incredibly difficult -- for very good reasons. The FDA has to be risk-averse in order to protect the health of the public and to prevent harm to be done.

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Re:How I Got the $84k Hepatitis C Drug for $1500 by Buying I... by philh on Monday May 09, 2016 @05:55AM (#11658600)
More cynically, the FDA has to be risk-averse because people get much more upset over "this person died because the FDA approved a bad drug" than over "this person died because the FDA didn't approve the drug that would have saved her".
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