Crisis in Science Prompts Sharing of Data

Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "'The crisis in "translational science," or turning basic discoveries into therapies, has been brewing for years, but it hit a depressing nadir in 2005, when just 20 new drugs won approval from the Food and Drug Administration,' Sharon Begley writes in the Wall Street Journal. Concerned researchers and foundations are pushing for more sharing of data between basic scientists and clinical investigators, and Stanford is launching a program to train doctoral students in bench-to-bedside research."

Comments

Re:only 20 new drugs?

[GigsVT]

someone starts designing new diseases so you can then trot out the cure to them as a new product...

They do that already, it's called psychology.

Or they could just fund it better

[antifoidulus]

I was bored at work today and was poking around Wikipedia when I found this article on HIV vaccines and people are doing some pretty interesting and imaginative stuff. However the article also notes that worldwide HIV research gets about $650 million annually. IE about 1/200th of what the US spends each year on the war in Iraq....