Trends in clinical development timeframes for antiviral drugs launched in the UK, 1981-2014: a retrospective observational study

Recent decades have witnessed the development of highly innovative new antiviral drug therapies. However, there are concerns that rising costs and lengthening development times could have implications for future patient access to innovative new drugs. We sought to establish whether the time taken for the clinical development of new antiviral drugs launched in the UK had increased since the 1980s.Retrospective observational study of all new...