Britain's pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of pounds in a search for new drugs and treatments which has not delivered the breakthroughs that were promised when the money was spent. It's a problem for the whole global industry, too. Peter Day asks if there are better ways of undertaking this quest for a cure.
Producer: Sandra Kanthal
Editor: Stephen Chilcott
Published on Thursday, 9th December 2010.
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