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ICYMI: Drug Development is Complicated. Let’s Start with the Facts.

Here’s a fact you might not have known: 90% of drug development programs fail. Yet a recent paper published by JAMA Internal Medicine attempts to tell a different story – one that neglects to consider the years of hard work and billions spent on R&D driving biopharmaceutical innovation.
In a thoughtful Wall Street Journal opinion this week, Peter Pitts of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest shed light on the flawed study.
“The authors admit that the selection cri
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