"45 of the 50 top-selling drugs during 1992-1997 stemmed from NIH-funded research"
Find something besides industry propaganda. I know that since we've grown up with it the lie seems normal. The Roman Catholic Church used to say, "Give us a child until he is six years old and we'll have him for life."
NIH research budget
"In addition, the NIH spent more than $1 billion on drug research in 1996 and 45 of the 50 top-selling drugs during 1992-1997 stemmed from NIH-funded research, the Boston Globe reported in 1998."
There's more, not worth going into. You'll go to your grave feeling sorry for the poor drug companies, who have to make a living off America's poor in order to sell drugs at WAY, WAY below cost for the sake of foreign poor.
Damned kind of them.
Arf