America's research-based biopharmaceutical companies are committed to continuing and expanding innovative research and developing new and better medicines and treatments.

Every year, dozens of new medicines and therapies are added to the medical arsenal in the fight against disease. These new medicines are part of the steady-stream of medical and therapeutic advances that are revolutionizing and improving healthcare. They are the result of medical research and development that can take as long as 15 years and cost more than $800 million dollars to bring a new medicine from the laboratory to the pharmacy shelf.

Disease is our common enemy. These medicines and therapies in development described in the left menu are giving patients and physicians new weapons in the fight against disease.

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