Research-Based Industry Facing Challenges

摘要

The research-based pharmaceutical industry's key contribution to medical progress is to turn research findings into innovative treatments. Its successes in researching and developing new medicines have helped in the fight against previously fatal diseases such as smallpox, tuberculosis, syphilis, diphtheria and polio, and have spurred medical progress in the treatment of other diseases and conditions, including hiv-aids, cancer, nervous disorders, stomach ulcers, asthma and hypertension, to name a few.