Neville Jackson, Dan Atar, Maria Borentain, Günter Breithardt, Martin van Eickels, Matthias Endres, Uwe Fraass, Tim Friede, Hakima Hannachi, Salim Janmohamed, Jörg Kreuzer, Martin Landray, Dominik Lautsch, Chantal Le Floch, Peter Mol, Huseyin Naci, Nilesh J Samani, Anders Svensson, Cathrine Thorstensen, Jan Tijssen, Victoria Vandzhura, Andrew Zalewski, Paulus Kirchhof
AIMS: Cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of mortality and morbidity in the world, but the pharmaceutical industry's willingness to invest in this field has declined because of the many challenges involved with bringing new cardiovascular drugs to market, including late-stage failures, escalating regulatory requirements, bureaucracy of the clinical trial business enterprise, and limited patient access after approval. This contrasts with the remaining burden of cardiovascular disease in Europe and in the world...
March 1, 2016: European Heart Journal