2012's New Drugs

Thanks to Lisa Jarvis at C&E News, here's a chart (PDF) of the 39 drugs approved last year by the FDA. Last year was a good year, by almost any measure. The question as we go on will be whether this was a one-time spike, or the start of a long-awaited turnaround. If the latter, I think it will be as much of a regulatory phenomenon as a scientific one (faster reviews, etc.)...