Medicines save lives, relieve pain, cure and prevent disease. Medicines help keep families together longer and improve the quality of life for patients.
Medicines keep employees on the job and productive in the community.
The following pages provide examples of how pharmaceuticals provide value, to real patients and their families, as well as to bottom lines and expenditures charts and the health care system and society as a whole. Both kinds of evidence should be in the forefront of the debate. We stand on the threshold of a golden age of medical and scientific discovery. Our ever expanding knowledge of the human body, the processes of disease and our genetic makeup will be translated into new medicines to prevent, cure and treat diseases that now seem all but invincible. Like all sound investments, medicines may not always yield a quick return.