Highest grossing pharmaceuticals don’t help majority of patients

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” The top ten highest-grossing drugs in the United States help between 1 in 25 and 1 in 4 of the people who take them…”

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Schork, N. Personalized medicine: Time for one-person trials. Nature 520, 609–611 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/520609a

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