The New Medicines - How Drugs are Created, Approved, Marketed, and Sold (Hardcover)

Today, most people use prescription medications. Every year, the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry produces new medicines that treat everything from arthritis to AIDS, from high cholesterol to depression. But, despite recent controversies regarding the safety of drugs, consumers know little about the medications that they ingest and inject. How are these new medicines invented? How do consumers know that drugs are safe and effective? How are they tested? Who regulates their production - and who watches the regulators? How do drug companies produce the vast quantities needed for the marketplace, and why do they market their drugs as they do? The New Medicines leads the reader through the maze of the modern drug industry - from bench to bedside - and provides consumers with a step-by-step understanding of how new medicines are created, approved, marketed, and sold. In addition to explaining how drugs reach the medicine cabinet, the author - an experienced researcher and teacher - provides the scientific and business background for understanding the current controversial issues surrounding new medicines, such as:

• The rise and fall of the COX-2 inhibitors, Vioxx and Celebrex, and the process by which they were invented, approved, and re-evaluated.
• The saga of the cancer drug Erbitux and its creator, the company Imclone, made famous as the centerpiece of the Martha Stewart insider-trading scandal
• The strengths and weaknesses of the approval process of the Food and Drug Administration
• The controversial new marketing techniques of the pharmaceutical industry

A balanced work that provides readers with an unbiased look at the drugindustry, The New Medicines will answer the questions of anyone who has ever looked at a bottle of their prescription pills and wondered, "how did that get here?"

General

Imprint:	Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2005
First published:	March 2006
Authors:	Bernice Z Schacter
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-0-275-98141-9
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Medicolegal issues Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Manufacturing industries > Pharmaceutical industries Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Pharmacology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-275-98141-X
Barcode:	9780275981419

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