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The truth about the drug companies
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Marcia Angell |
Angell watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over their own fort… |
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Dangerous doses
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Katherine Eban |
Stolen, compromised, and counterfeit medicine increasingly makes its way into a poorly regulated distribution system-where it may reach unsuspecting patients who stake their lives on its effectivenes… |
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The Safe Use Initiative and health literacy
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Cori Vanchieri |
"Every year at least 1.5 million people suffer adverse effects from medication. These problems occur because people misunderstand labels, are unaware of drug interactions, or otherwise use medication… |
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Research methods for pharmaceutical practice and policy
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Rajender R. Aparasu |
This text provides the theory and practice for conducting pharmaceutical policy research. It covers all aspects of scientific research from conceptualising to statistical analysis. It also provides s… |
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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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Drug wars
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Robin Feldman |
"While the shockingly high prices of prescription drugs continue to dominate the news, the strategies used by pharmaceutical companies to prevent generic competition are poorly understood, even by th… |
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Find it, file it, flog it
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Hedley G. Rees |
"Taking on practices that put fast-track development and marketing ahead of good medicine, this riveting book provides and insider's view of an industry in crisis, busting myths and explaining how th… |
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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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Biosimilars
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Shein-Chung Chow |
"This is the first book entirely devoted to the design and analysis for assessment of biosimilarity and drug interchangeability of biosimilars, and test for comparability in manufacturing processes o… |
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Hep-cats, narcs, and pipe dreams
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Jill Jonnes |
Once upon a time in America, morphine and cocaine were routinely sold in pharmacies, and gamblers and rogues gathered in shadowy basements to smoke opium. So begins Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams, … |
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Inside the FDA
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Fran Hawthorne |
The forces that shape America's most powerful consumer agency Because of the importance of what it regulates, the FDA comes under tremendous political, industry, and consumer pressure. But the press… |
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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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