The Cost of New Drugs

Why does it cost on average $800 million to bring a new drug to market?

But most medicines in clinical trials are likely to fail. Only one in 5,000 of the compounds invented in drug company labs is thought to make it into patient testing at all.  And according to the Tufts Center for Drug Development, only one in five of those medicines that does get tested in humans ever makes it to market at all.

The beneftis of this testing are enormous. Click on any of the diseases under "New Drugs to Watch," to see the drugs currently in various testing stages.