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The $800 million pill : the truth behind the cost of new drugs

Author: Merrill Goozner
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Drug companies insist that [prescription drug] prices reflect the millions they invest in research and development ... Merrill Goozner contends that American taxpayers are in fact footing the bill twice: once by supporting government-funded research and again by paying high prices for prescription drugs. Goozner demonstrates that almost all of the important and life-saving new drugs of the past quarter-century  Read more...
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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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"Drug companies insist that [prescription drug] prices reflect the millions they invest in research and development ... Merrill Goozner contends that American taxpayers are in fact footing the bill twice: once by supporting government-funded research and again by paying high prices for prescription drugs. Goozner demonstrates that almost all of the important and life-saving new drugs of the past quarter-century actually originated from research at taxpayer-funded universities and the National Institutes of Health ... [Goozner] suggests ways that the government's role in testing new medicines could be expanded to eliminate private-sector waste driving up the cost of existing drugs--p. [2] of jacket.

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