u/Boring_Cartoonist952

Hey everyone,

I am super interested in the pharmaceutical industry and so when I was seeing some of my patients taking drugs in other developed countries (think Western Europe) which are not available in US, I kept wondering why. Those drugs are similar in efficacy to say the drugs in the US.

Naturally, a lot of the regulatory authorities in Western Europe or Europe (I assume) are congruent in thought to the American FDA, as well as the standards of care between say Europe and US are not too dissimilar.

This naturally makes me want to know why there is this discrepancy between highly advanced countries?