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Science and innovation Science and innovation 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 … OL10582901W
The drugging of the Americas The drugging of the Americas 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… OL1152768W
Why our health matters Why our health matters 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… OL145312W
The pharmaceutical industry The pharmaceutical industry 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… OL16002317W
Deadly Monopolies Deadly Monopolies 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… OL16262848W
Die Schering AG in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus Die Schering AG in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus 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… OL16331674W
Micro Micro 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… OL16421115W
Sleepless Sleepless 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,… OL16981473W
Poison pill Poison pill Glenn Kaplan "After years of struggle, Emma Conway is living the dream - a happy second marriage and a great career. She is the driving force behind Acordinol, a hugely successful product that has pharmaceutical … OL17874587W
The last pirate The last pirate 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, … OL17896075W
Bad Pharma: How Medicine is Broken, and How We Can Fix it Bad Pharma: How Medicine is Broken, and How We Can Fix it 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… OL18818714W
Find it, file it, flog it Find it, file it, flog it 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… OL20025446W
Blitzed Blitzed 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… OL20049184W
The Truth About the Drug Companies The Truth About the Drug Companies 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 … OL2076616W
India and the Patent Wars India and the Patent Wars Murphy Halliburton India and the Patent Wars examines struggles over patents and access to medicine among pharmaceutical producers, activists and others under a new global intellectual property regime. In the past two … OL20930886W
Captive Captive A. J. Grainger Sixteen-year-old Robyn Knollys-Green struggles to keep faith in her father, the British Prime Minister, while being held hostage by a group of extremist that includes an attractive, kind young man ca… OL21272721W
Strong medicine Strong medicine Arthur Hailey 476 pages ; 18 cm OL2475119W
The toppled pawn The toppled pawn Robert T. O'Brien The story matches wits between newly appointed South Station Chief of Police, Kristi Christopher, and the Painter Group, an international financial cartel orchestrating a grand conspiracy designed to… OL26172699W
The Side Effect The Side Effect Bob Reiss It's the night the President has resigned. In a Manhattan town house, the head of Lenox Pharmaceuticals, the world's most powerful drug company, lies dead. Through the morning darkness, security chie… OL2949582W
Parenteral quality control Parenteral quality control Michael K. Akers,Dan Larrimore,Dana Guazzo,Michael J. Akers Describes the most recent breakthroughs in the validation and execution of testing schemes for parenteral quality control. Emphasizes testing methodologies for the evaluation of package integrity, f… OL3932535W
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