As much as we hate having our collective lives polluted by the ceaseless and nauseating prescription drug ads (See No, I Don't Want To Hear About Your Bent Penis While Dining) as well as being toyed with by insurance companies that seemingly create arbitrary rules to avoid paying for new, high priced drugs, there is a definite upside to many of the new products that drug companies are discovering and developing.
One area I've covered extensively is the discovery of biological drugs that have revolutionized the treatment of asthma (See...