Medicine beyond magic bullets: a formal case for multilevel interventions
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Western medicine’s paradigmatic search for ‘magic bullet’ interventions is facing increasing difficulty: Between 1950 and 2010 the inflation-adjusted research cost per USFDAapproved drug has increased exponentially in time, an draconian inverse of the famous Moore’s Law of computing. A sequence of empirically-oriented statistical models suggests that carefully designed synergistic multifactorial and multiscale strategies might evade this relationship.
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