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more like 1000s of millions. It's incredibly expensive to demonstrate safety and efficacy, and many promising candidates fail at the later stages (after 100s of millions already spent) when the response in humans is different from that of animal models.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_development




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