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Drug discovery

proposed cause of falling drug R&D efficiency in which each new drug must beat an ever-growing library of effective, cheap generic drugs.

In drug discovery, better than the Beatles problem refers to proposed cause of falling drug R&D efficiency in which each new drug must beat an ever-growing library of effective, cheap generic drugs. This meaning comes from Scannell (2012) in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery.[1]

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Scannell, J. W., Blanckley, A., Boldon, H., & Warrington, B. (2012). Diagnosing the decline in pharmaceutical R&D efficiency. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 11(3), 191-200. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrd3681

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