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Paper Declares that with Respect to Drug Innovation, "Europe Is Ahead"

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- A paper published in the latest issue of the policy journal Health Affairs disputes the widely held notion that the United States has eclipsed Europe in terms of pharmaceutical research productivity. In the article, entitled "Global Drug Discovery: Europe Is Ahead," Dr. Donald Light, a professor of social medicine in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, reexamined a data set originally collected by Dr. Henry Grabowski (professor of economics at Duke University) and Richard Wang (director of health services research and policy analysis at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals) and concluded...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on September 04, 2009 (boomark / email).