Potential blockbuster drug down the drain.

本可一鸣惊人的药品现在血本无归。

Prosecutors and the public have zeroed in on Purdue Pharma, which introduced the blockbuster drug OxyContin in 1996.

检察官和公众将矛头对准了普渡制药公司，该公司于1996年推出了轰动一时的药物奥施康定。

It is too early to tell whether any blockbuster drugs will result.

现在判断是否会产生轰动的药物还为时过早。

Virtanen didn't have any blockbuster drugs in the pipeline.

维尔塔南制药没有什么拳头产品要退出。

Imagine you're a big pharmaceutical company, say, and you're transferring information about your blockbuster drugs between your offices.

假设您是一家大型制药公司，并且您正在办公室之间传输关于您的重磅炸弹药物的信息。

Just a couple of weeks ago, Eli Lilly released this kind of blockbuster drug that was shown to slow the development of Alzheimer's.

就在几周前， 礼来公司发布了这种重磅药物， 该药物被证明可以减缓阿尔茨海默氏症的发展。

You said for some companies, sort of a blockbuster drug is a one-billion-dollar treatment, but that for you, a blockbuster is it reaches one billion people.

你说对一些公司来说， 一种重磅炸弹药物是一种价值 10 亿美元的治疗方法，但对你来说， 重磅炸弹药物是它可以覆盖 10 亿人。

That's because development of a new antibiotic runs about $2 billion and takes about 10 years-with little hope of ending up with the sort of blockbuster drug that justifies such an investment.

这是因为一种新型抗生素的研发耗资约20亿美元，耗时约10年，几乎不可能研制出能够证明这种投资合理的畅销药物。

It's a strict choice about capitalism, about the market.In some ways, the market isn't really helping us here, because the choices these companies are making are to develop the big blockbuster drugs that people have to take for life.

这是关于资本主义和市场的严格选择。在某些方面，市场并没有真正帮助我们，因为这些公司做出的选择是开发人们必须终生服用的重磅炸弹药物。