Eroom's Law

Derek Lowe · 8 Mar 2012 · web.archive.org ↗

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Our reading
Drug research is heading, at speed, for a world in which fewer and fewer useful medicines are discovered while more and more people want them.

Their wordsWe are heading, at speed, for a world in which fewer and fewer useful medicines are discovered, while more and more people want them.

Interesting
Our reading
Every new drug has to beat the cheap generics that came before it, and that competition with our own back catalogue is why drug discovery gets harder over time.

Their wordsI think that this is insufficiently appreciated outside of the drug business. Nothing goes away unless it's well and truly superseded.

Interesting