Re:A Doctor Trying to Stop Heart Attacks
by hammock on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @10:55PM
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>The cost of bringing a drug to market is mostly in the clinical trials.
I would not say mostly, although clinical trials are a large part of the cost. (Roughly speaking) For every drug that makes it through final approval, there are ten that failed in trials. However, for every drug that makes it into trials, there were ten that didn't - and the R&D for those unseen drugs is also a huge cost for pharma companies.
I would not say mostly, although clinical trials are a large part of the cost. (Roughly speaking) For every drug that makes it through final approval, there are ten that failed in trials. However, for every drug that makes it into trials, there were ten that didn't - and the R&D for those unseen drugs is also a huge cost for pharma companies.