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Would Aspirin Be Approved Today?
I've often said that if aspirin were invented today it would not be approved by the FDA. Drug researcher Derek Lowe says I'm wrong - aspirin wouldn't even make it out of the lab. Read the whole thing.
Thanks to Ted Frank for the pointer.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on November 21, 2005 at 07:46 AM in Economics, Medicine | Permalink
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