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Re:Cancer patients are being denied drugs, even with prescri... by taneq on Saturday August 03, 2019 @02:31PM (#20601858)
That is awful and I'm so sorry to hear. :( It also doesn't invalidate my point, although it highlights that I should have said the government should run its own competent R&D
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Re:Cancer patients are being denied drugs, even with prescri... by idrios on Saturday August 03, 2019 @03:27PM (#20602141)
I believe what you just described is the NIH.
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Re:Cancer patients are being denied drugs, even with prescri... by Irene on Saturday August 03, 2019 @03:58PM (#20602329)
You are right, according to medical journal "The Lancet", 85% of (government-funded) research funding is “avoidably wasted across the entire biomedical research range (e.g., clinical, health services, and basic science)” Government-funded medical R&D (budget for the NIH: $34.4 billion for 2019) needs smarter spending.
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