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Drug development costs: Is $2.6B correct? Big pharma may profit from inflated estimates.

Drug costs are astronomical – this we know. But we don’t have a transparent, informed way of calculating – or understanding – the true costs of drug development, argued Dr. Jerry Avorn, a professor of pharmacoeconomics at Harvard University, in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine.  And this ignorance may be helping big pharma inflate the price of drugs. He […]