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10,000 X's that are thought of in laboratories,
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only one of them eventually gets approved by the FDA.
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This is why drug development
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costs so much money in this country,
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because you have to look at a lot of compounds
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and test them pretty extensively to find the one
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that's really useful for treating disease.
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I don't think we want to change that,
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because this process of FDA approval was
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introduced early in this century
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when people were selling drugs
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out of the back of covered wagons and moving from town to town.