Turning Back the Clock: Drug Approvals Hit 25 Year Low
This article was originally published in RPM Report
Executive Summary
You have to go back to 1983 to find a year as bad as 2007 for R&D output. It was a terrible year by any measure. The key question for industry: does it need to learn to subsist on a trickle of new drugs coming to market each year, or is the current drought in fact a sign of a transition to a new, more innovative R&D model? The sparse class of 2007 does offer some glimmers of hope.
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