Demythologizing the high costs of pharmaceutical research

Donald W. Light1,2, Rebecca Warburton3
1University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, NJ, USA
2Program in Human Biology, Stanford University, CA, USA
3School of Public Administration, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada

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