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Why does it take so long for new glaucoma medications to become available?
On average, it takes 12 years and millions of dollars to get one new medication from a laboratory to the pharmacist’s shelf. Only five in 5,000 compounds that enter preclinical testing make it to human testing. One of these five tested in people is approved.
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