E-Books →The New Medicines How Drugs are Created, Approved, Marketed, and Sold

Free Download Bernice Z. Schacter, "The New Medicines: How Drugs are Created, Approved, Marketed, and Sold"
English | 2005 | pages: 281 | ISBN: 027598141X | PDF | 13,2 mb
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.