> To bring a new drug to market, with all of
> the drugs that fail at some point during
> the development and testing process, often
> costs the company on theorder of $1 billion
> before they sell one pill or treatment,
> much less making a profit.
> Do you have any suggestions how to reduce the
> cost for the "enormous profits" you mention
> without impacting R&D for new medicines?
> . . . ronn! :)
i'm not aware that it costs that much, and if it does, that is way too much.
maybe theses pharms should just do their R&D on drugs like viagra and let the
government subsidize better research on life saving drugs without ill side
effects (instead of financing unnecessary wars)...
jon
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