Jon Louis Mann wrote: >> 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)... > I don't know why it is too much. Ever hear of Thalidomide? The charge given to the FDA is to ensure both the safety and the efficacy of drugs, and that sort of thing costs money. There is an argument that the drug companies cannot be trusted to test their own products, but even if you moved all testing to the government, it would still cost a lot of money.
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