How medicines are born
Subtitle: the imperfect science of drugs
By: Lisa Vozza (Italian Association for Cancer Research, Italy), Maurizio D'Incalci (Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Italy) ; translated by: Andreas Gescher
Contributors: D'Incalci, Maurizio, author; Gescher, Andreas, translator
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9781786342973; 9781786342980
Subjects: Drugs; Drug development; Design; Pharmaceutical technology; History
Work titles: Come nascono le medicine : la scienza imperfetta dei farmaci
Notes: Translated from the Italian.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: To cure, heal or repair; title: Hunting for drugs; title: Laboratory studies; title: First time in humans; title: Only probabilities, never certainties; title: Approval or rejection; title: Vigilance, revisions, new indications; title: Predicting the drugs of the future; title: Not every pill is a proper drug; title: If you want to know more; title: Myths to be dispelled; title: Did you know that.