Trikafta, AZT, statins, and DAAs provide clear examples of the enormous positive effects that pharmaceutical innovations can have on people and on society.
And there are many, many other important drugs like them, impacting billions of lives. It is highly probable that you or a loved one would not be alive right now if it were not for a medication developed through a rigorous, expensive, and lengthy process.
Yet it’s easy to take this innovation for granted. Most of us don’t understand how the drug innovation process happens, nor why it is so costly.