Healthy Skepticism Library item: 16482
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Publication type: Journal Article
Dispelling myths about drug research
The Lancet 2009 Sep 5; 374:(9692):758
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)61574-9/fulltext
Abstract:
The widely held belief that US firms dominate drug research discovery compared with their European counterparts is challenged in a paper published online on Aug 25 by Health Affairs .
Donald Light analysed data from a 2006 study by Henry Grabowski and Richard Wang, which examined the discovery of new drugs between 1982 and 1992 and between 1993 and 2003. Grabowski and Wang concluded that US firms had outshone European companies in terms of productivity. But when Light measured research productivity b …