A new study says that pharmaceutical companies have been putting medical discoveries on the back burner in favor of making profits with inefficient drugs, the Daily Mail reports.
According to the British Medical Journal, 85 to 90 percent of all prescription drugs developed in the past 50 years provide few benefits, but many have caused hazardous side-effects.
For every dollar that goes toward finding breakthrough medicine, $19 goes to marketing and promoting mediocre drugs.
Read more: http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/health/study-claims-drug-companies-putting-profits-ahead-of-medical-breakthrough-treatments#ixzz23Rk3yX4K
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