Prescription for Change
Subtitle: The Looming Crisis in Drug Development
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781469630625
Subjects: Drugs, research; Pharmaceutical industry; Pharmacology
Description: "The introduction of new medicines has dramatically improved the quantity and quality of individual and public health while contributing trillions of dollars to the global economy. In spite of these past successes--and indeed because of them--our ability to deliver new medicines may be quickly coming to an end. Moving from the twentieth century to the present, this book reveals how changing business strategies combined with scientific hubris have altered the way new medicines are discovered, with dire implications for both health and the economy"--