STAT Plus: STAT’s guide to the most important, beneficial drugs approved in the past decade
The new year will end in a zero, making this a perfect opportunity to look back at the past 10 years of drug approvals.
Complaints abound that the drug industry lacks innovation. A quick perusal of the new drugs approved over the last decade shows that isn’t so. We dug through every drug that passed muster with the Food and Drug Administration starting in 2010 and identified ten — along with a dozen honorable mentions — that have had the biggest impact on the companies that sell them, on medicine, and on society as a whole.

