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Re:Humira’s Drug Formula: Start at a High Price, Go Higher by walshemj on Monday January 08, 2018 @06:30PM (#16101954)
Not the same professors salary and other costs rise with inflation a drug once developed and a production line is in place does not face the same cost increase
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Re:Humira’s Drug Formula: Start at a High Price, Go Higher by notlob on Monday January 08, 2018 @06:39PM (#16102021)
Drug company employee salaries and overhead also keep pace with inflation, better than academic salaries. I don’t understand your point.

A biologic production line requires extensive upkeep: it is a living product. Costs all around are higher. There are also Phase IV activities to consider.

Bottom line, all else being equal, biologics cost more than small-molecule drugs to make and distribute.

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