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Comment by greygoo222

8 hours ago

Examples aside, 5 years isn't long enough for a treatment to move from early mice trials to clinical use. The average time from application to FDA approval is about 10 years.

The breakthroughs happening now will benefit average patients later. It's frustrating, but it's not because we've run out of innovations.

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