Uploaded September 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Find out what it takes to get a medicine to patients and how the process ensures that medicines are safe and effective for the patients taking them.

Sources:
http://csdd.tufts.edu/news/complete_story/pr_tufts_csdd_2014_cost_study

Lamberti Mary Jo. 2015 Profiles of New Approaches to
Improving the Efficiency and Performance
of Pharmaceutical Drug Development. Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development. http://csdd.tufts.edu/files/uploads/CSSD_PhRMAWhitePaperNEWEST2.pdf

Torjesen Ingrid. 2015. Drug development: the journey of a medicine from lab to shelf. The Pharmaceutical Journal.