Drug Development Costs Skyrocket

One reason new medicines are more expensive is that the cost of discovering and producing new therapies is soaring. A new study from the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development puts the cost of developing a new prescription medicine at a whopping $802 million. That represents a rise that is double that of inflation over the past 15 years, largely because of expanding clinical trial expenditures.

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Pharmaceutical Executive, Jan 1, 2002 .
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