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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Merrill Goozner |
| ISBN: | 0520239458 9780520239456 0520246705 9780520246706 |
| OCLC Number: | 53223691 |
| Description: | 297 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1: Biohype. The longest search ; Rare profits ; The source of the new machine -- pt. 2: Directed research. A public-private partnership ; The divorce ; Breakthrough! ; The failed crusade? -- pt. 3: Big Pharma. Me too! ; The $800 million pill ; The future of innovation. |
| Other Titles: | Eight hundred million dollar pill |
| Responsibility: | Merrill Goozner. |
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"American expenditures on prescription drugs doubled between 1990 and 2000 and currently account for close to ten percent of total healthcare costs. Concerns about availability to seniors and the poor have led many to question these high costs, which pharmaceutical companies have always justified as necessary to spur the creation of new and better drugs. In this well-researched book, Goozner, former chief economics correspondent at the "Chicago Tribune, disputes these claims. He chronicles the actual clinical process by which new drugs come into being, from basic scientific research on disease processes conducted at universities and government labs to the synthesis of new chemicals."--"Library Journal Read more...
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- Prescription pricing.
- Drugs -- Prices.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Consumer education.
- Drug Industry -- economics.
- Biomedical Research -- economics.
- Drug Therapy -- economics.
- Médicaments -- Prix.
- Industrie pharmaceutique.
- Consommateurs -- Éducation.
- Arzneimittelforschung.
- Forschungsausgaben.
- Arzneimittelpreis.
- Öffentliche Förderung.
- Forschungsfinanzierung.
- Staatliche Einrichtung.
- Pharmazeutische Industrie.
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