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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. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
"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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- 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.

