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?"
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