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Re:‘Trojan horse’ drug treated British patients with six dif... by gregcrv on Sunday February 10, 2019 @10:07AM (#19128032)
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescription_costs

“A study has placed the amount spent on drug marketing at 2-19 times that on drug research”

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Re:‘Trojan horse’ drug treated British patients with six dif... by JoeAltmaier on Sunday February 10, 2019 @10:21AM (#19128085)
Wow drug research must be really cheap! To judge by the cretinous late-night ads for junk medicine. They can't have cost much to throw together...
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Re:‘Trojan horse’ drug treated British patients with six dif... by merpnderp on Sunday February 10, 2019 @10:31AM (#19128117)
I’ve always assumed the vast amount of marketing is the armies of incredibly high paid door to door salesmen who always seem to be visiting your doctor with some new pitch to reward them for prescribing their pet drug.
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