Do large pharma companies provide drug development innovation? Our analysis says no.

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10 December 2019 - Large pharmaceutical companies oppose legislation being considered by Congress to lower the prices of prescription drugs. Reducing their revenues, they contend, will reduce their investment in drug development and the discovery of new medicines, and thus lead to a decline in drug innovation.

If that argument is credible, there should be evidence to show that the large pharmaceutical companies are responsible for discovering innovative new drugs.

To test that claim, we examined the provenance of the highest-selling prescription medicines of Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, the two largest pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in 2018.

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