| 1 Anyu breaks through the unsolved question |
| Medicines are necessary for disease treatment, but they may also induce the occurrence of some disease. How to handle such a puzzle, therefore, is an important task should the scientists and medicine development organizations be faced with.. |
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1 The cost for the development of modern medicine
Peoples always place the hope on the development of new medicine for curing stubborn diseases. However, the process needed for the development and marketing entrance of a new medicine is very complicated and full of challenge.
As reported by the “Health News”, the main medium of Chinese public health circles, it was said that: “According to the statistical data in the year 2000, the average cost for the development of every new medicine approved by FDA in the United States reached 880 million USD on the average, which was almost twice as many as the cost 10 years before, and such cost is continuously going upward.” |
It has been reported that “Merely in the United States, the cost for medicine development reached 30.5 billions in 2001” (QUANQIU KEJI JINGJI LIAOWANG <An Outlook on the worldwide scientific and technological economy> published by Chinese Institute of Scientific and Technological Information). The incomplete statistical data showed that the worldwide yearly cost for new medicine development was as high as more than $ 70 billion in 2003. Even though, a lot of stubborn diseases are still not curable.
What causing people further worried are the untoward side effects that seriously imperil human health and life are also in parallel with disease treatment. |
2 Various puzzles in modern medical science
Along with the development of modern medicine are the rapid development of pharmaceutical industry and the day-by-day increase of medicinal varieties. However, the untoward side effects are also increasing, and many peoples have suffered from these side effects. Anyu’s question is: what has been brought to us by the development of modern medicine, happy or puzzling? |
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