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True, but what did doctors do before these new drugs? “Fuck around” with “inferior” products... reason I’m cynical is because many new drugs that hit the market are not novel - for example loteprednol (older drug) vs difluprednate (newer): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28628490/

By the way, some of these newer drugs don’t have to be “superior” to be approved, they just have to be none-inferior to current therapy. https://www.raps.org/regulatory-focus™/news-articles/2016/11...




From what I gathered, it was more effective than the cheaper options, not that it was chosen because it was new and shiny.




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