Questions tagged [drug-development]
The process of inventing, developing and testing new pharmaceuticals.
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Is there any evidence that constraining the prices of pharmaceuticals significantly would reduce R&D spending on new drugs?
Why is this a new issue?
Historically, the prices of new drugs were largely unconstrained in their biggest market, the USA. The USA probably accounts for more than half of the worldwide profits in the ...
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Do US Pharma firms have an incentive to develop useless cancer drugs?
An economic analysis of cancer drug approvals in the USA was recently published.
Drug regulators’ acceptance of any statistically significant improvement shown in a single randomized trial and lofty ...
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Are there approved drugs where it's unknown how they work?
A couple of months ago, I saw a YouTube video, stating that it is still not known how some common drugs really work. I think it might be Healthcare Triage, and I think it might be about ...
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Is Amovir an effective anti-viral drug?
According to this article (in French) on the (usually respectable) website, Capital, Robert Vachy discovered an drug named Amovir which destroys viral envelopes. According to the article, the anti-...
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Do 90% of new drugs not improve over previous drugs?
An article in the german online newspaper Spiegel Online starts with the headline
90 Prozent aller neuen Medikamente taugen nichts (90 percent of new drugs are no good)
The article is a about a new ...
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Have any "cures" been invented since the 1950's or so? [closed]
A well reputed professor of neurology once mentioned to me that no drugs have been invented to cure human afflictions since the 1950's or 60's. Are there any drugs that have been invented since that ...
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