They must jump through the irrational and expensive hoops of the FDA, and patents are only 20 years (compare with corporate copyright of 75 years). This makes them pursue only blockbuster and knockoff drugs. Stuff for chronic diseases you're going to buy for years.
The boot device is the device from which the operating system is loaded. A modern PC BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) supports booting from various devices. These include the local hard disk drive, optical drive, floppy drive, a network interface card, and a USB device.
1 On some bootable devices, you may be prompted with a message to press a key before the computer will boot to the flash drive or other USB device. 2  If you do nothing, your computer will check for boot information on the next boot device in the list in BIOS (see Step 1) which will probably be your hard drive. Jeffrey Coolidge/Photodisc/Getty Images. You might want to boot from a USB device, like an external hard drive or a flash drive, for many different reasons. When you boot from a USB device, what you're actually doing is running your computer with the operating system that's installed on the USB device.