Pharmaceutical research is very broken. It is startling how ineffective all but a few drugs are. Medical Nihilism by Jacob Stegenga is a great book on the topic.
It is startling how ineffective all but a few drugs are.
Presumably partly for this reason, a bunch of "new" drugs are minor modifications to some existing drug to secure a new patent and create a new branded product whose modest advantages over the old drug (if any) are inflated by the marketing machine into being some kind of revolutionary advance.
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Pharmaceutical research is very broken. It is startling how ineffective all but a few drugs are. Medical Nihilism by Jacob Stegenga is a great book on the topic.
Presumably partly for this reason, a bunch of "new" drugs are minor modifications to some existing drug to secure a new patent and create a new branded product whose modest advantages over the old drug (if any) are inflated by the marketing machine into being some kind of revolutionary advance.