What Can Economics Say about Alzheimer's Disease?
Un article de JEL ens aporta dades d'interès sobre aspectes econòmics de l'Alzheimer. Vull destacar-ne un especialment, el cost de produir un nou medicament:
The average cost of AD [Alzheimer’s Disease] drug development is estimated (based on a host of assumptions) to be $5.6 billion, largely due to high preclinical and phase 3 trial costs (Cummings, Reiber, and Kumar 2018). This number greatly exceeds R&D costs for other drugs, for which the median cost of development is estimated to be $2.5 billion (DiMasi, Grabowski, and Hansen 2016). One reason for the high cost is the long trial time needed to see results, the average length of AD drug development being 13 years.
Però jo em pregunto, si encara no en tenim que siguin efectius de veritat, podem parlar-ne tant clarament?. Crec que no, penso que ningú sap ben bé què pot arribar a costar i això és només un ancoratge per a fixació de preus futurs.
Al KBR, Jules Ainaud, Montserrat 1871
