To Your Health: NLM update: The $2.6 billion pill: Scrutiny of drug development cost estimates

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The revised, estimated $2.6 billion cost to develop a new drug merits scrutiny for overall accuracy as well as the inference that drug companies spend most developmental costs on research, finds an insightful editorial recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Source: What's New on MedlinePlus - July 6, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news