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Drug companies spend more on advertising and marketing than on research, more on research on lifestyle drugs than on life saving drugs, and almost…

— Joseph Stiglitz

If drug development becomes the domain of government researchers, it's a sure bet that political lobbying will eventually trump scientific promise and commercial viability…

— Scott Gottlieb

Drug companies say they need to charge ever-higher prices to cover their research costs, but they spend far less on research and development than…

— Marcia Angell

Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of the major…

— Pierre Bosquet

If you look at the expenses of a great pharmaceutical company, they pay between about 10 to 15 percent of their expenses for research,…

— Pascal Couchepin

Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those…

— David Mixner

The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between those doctors…

— Chuck Grassley

“But why, then, do these ideas persist? Why haven’t the scientists with the better and more accurate ideas eclipsed these old theories? Hart tells…

— Johann Hari

Philanthropic funding can play a vital role in testing and stimulating innovation that, when proven, can be implemented at scale by business or government.

— Sergio Ermotti

I believe that we not only feed the public demand for useless and harmful drugs, but also go far to create that very demand.…

— Richard Clarke Cabot

You can think of the Health Impact Fund as a mechanism that would keep the benefits and burdens of pharmaceutical innovation for the affluent…

— Thomas Pogge

It seems paradoxical that, as medical scientists make huge advances in discovering the mechanisms of common diseases, fewer and fewer innovative drugs are reaching…

— Mark Walport