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Science and innovation
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Alfonso Gambardella |
This book examines an increasingly important phenomenon for competitiveness and innovation in industry: namely, the growing use of scientific principles in industrial research. Industrial innovation … |
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The drugging of the Americas
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Milton Morris Silverman |
In the United States, drug companies promoting their products to physicians are required by law to limit their claims to what they can prove, and to make full disclosure of all known hazards. Dr. Sil… |
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Why our health matters
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Andrew Weil |
A landmark book that shows us exactly how we have let health and medicine become a crisis in our society and what we can all do to resolve it Healthcare is no longer just a public issue; for millions… |
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Altered state
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Gregg R. Luke |
Homer and Morgan Winegar believe they may have finally found happiness in the quiet college town in which they have settled. Perhaps now in their new life together with Morgan's nine-year-old son, t… |
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The pharmaceutical industry
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Roman Espejo |
"The Pharmaceutical Industry: Is Pharmaceutical Research Safe and Unbiased?; Are Prescription Drugs Appropriately Regulated?; Are Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices Ethical?; Is the Cost of Prescript… |
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Deadly Monopolies
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Harriet A. Washington |
Think your body is your own to control and dispose of as you wish? Think again. The United States Patent Office has granted at least 40,000 patents on genes controlling the most basic processes of hu… |
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Die Schering AG in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus
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Gert J. Wlasich |
Vor 160 Jahren eröffnete Ernst Schering in Berlin die »Grüne Apotheke«, aus der später der Chemie- und Pharmakonzern Schering hervorging. Aus diesem Anlass werden Geschichte und Kultur dieses Unterne… |
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Micro
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Preston, Richard,Richard Preston,Michael Crichton |
An instant classic in the vein of Jurassic Park, this boundary-pushing novel has all the hallmarks of Michael Crichton s greatest adventures with its combination of pulse-pounding thrills, cutting-ed… |
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Cleaning validation manual
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Syed Imtiaz Haider |
"With over 20 easy-to-use template protocols for cleaning validation of extensively used equipments, this book provides technical solutions to assist in fulfilling the training needs of finished phar… |
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Sleepless
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Charlie Huston |
Parker T Haas is a straight-arrow LAPD cop whose cast-iron sense of right and wrong has made him a lone wolf on the force. But when a plague of sleeplessness attacks Los Angeles and the world beyond,… |
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The last pirate
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Tony Dokoupil |
"NBC News"senior writer Dokoupil offers a gripping examination of his longtime marijuana-dealing father, as well as a researched look at the evolution of American narcotics laws. In the early 1970s, … |
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Bad Pharma: How Medicine is Broken, and How We Can Fix it
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Ben Goldacre |
We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair tests. In reality, those tests are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors are familiar with the researc… |
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The antidote
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Barry Werth |
In 1989, the charismatic Joshua Boger left Merck, then America's most admired business, to found a drug company that would challenge industry giants and transform health care. Journalist Barry Werth … |
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Blitzed
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Norman Ohler |
"The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World Wa… |
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The Truth About the Drug Companies
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Marcia Angell |
During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from … |
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Call to witness
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Sherry Blackman |
"Call to Witness is the true story of one woman's battle with disability, discrimination, and a leading pharmaceutical powerhouse. Jane Gagliardo was a throwaway employee, fired after working nearly … |
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A collusion of powers
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V. Christian Kingsford |
"Ralph Simon is once again whisked-off to work in conjunction with the agency and occupation he's detested for over thirty-years. This time it's to aid a friend in need and to help the man who's take… |
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Tono-Bungay
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H. G. Wells |
George Ponderovo's quiet young life is changed forever when he is forced to leave home and is apprenticed to his dynamic Uncle Edward in his chemist's shop. Edward, determined to "strike out", invent… |
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The King of Torts
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John Grisham |
The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real… |
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Virus Mania
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Torsten Engelbrecht,Claus Koehnlein |
A daily scan through the news gives the impression that the world is constantly invaded by virus epidemics. The latest headlines feature the human papillomavirus (HPV) alleged to cause cervical cance… |
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