* Body Plastic Color: Red, Green, Blue, White, Grey, Black * Buoy Cap Fabric: Buzz2 Tornado comes at no extra cost with all 6 body colors. Cogent:Connect Graphite is available with all 6 body colors for an extra charge. * Available on Black, White, Grey Body ONLY, for an extra charge: Cogent:Connect in Tangerine, Scarlet, Concord, Maya Blue, Blue Jay, Wasabi, Licorice, or Canary.
IN THE pharmaceuticals business there are few issues more loaded than the cost of developing a new drug. For a number of years estimates from industry groups on either side of the Atlantic have put it at $1.2 billion-1.8 billion.oseph DiMasi, director of economic analysis at the Tufts centre, says the most useful aspect of the $2.6 billion figure in his study is that it is comparable with previous figures. In 2003 his centre put the cost of drug development at $802m.
Thanks to the 1984 law, consumers have access to generic versions of many blockbuster treatments, including the cholesterol drug Zocor and the antidepressant Prozac, which can cost $3 to $5 a day. The generic forms of those drugs typically cost pennies a day. But biotech drugs weren't developed until the 1980s, when technology cleared the way for genetic engineering on DNA, allowing drug companies to rake in huge profits from this relatively new class of treatments.