The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs - Rilegato

Goozner, Merrill

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ISBN 10: 0520239458 ISBN 13: 9780520239456

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 2004

Riassunto

Demonstrates that important new drugs are the results of innovative work done at taxpayer-funded universities and at the National Institutes of Health, rather than by pharmaceutical firms who reap the profit and drive up the cost of prescription drugs.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Merrill Goozner is former Chief Economics Correspondent at the Chicago Tribune. Winner of six Peter Lisagor Awards, Goozner is a contributing editor forThe American Prospect. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, Washington Monthly, Fortune Small Business, Slate.com, andSalon.com, among other publications.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

"The $800 Million Pill is a masterful work of explanatory and investigative journalism. Merrill Goozner has versed himself in the interlocking worlds of medicine, business, politics, and basic science to explain how pharmaceutical breakthroughs truly occur. He also explains why drug costs are now so needlessly high. This is a compelling and important book."James Fallows ofThe Atlantic Monthly, author of Breaking the News

"Merrill Goozner does a superb job at explaining just how the pharmaceutical industry gets away with systematic overcharging, and why bio-medical advances do not require the current profiteering. This is the definitive book on this vital topic."Robert Kuttner, Co-Editor of The American Prospect and author of Everything for Sale

"Why do your prescription drugs cost so much? The real answers may surprise you. In a lively and straightforward narrative, veteran journalist Merrill Goozner goes behind the headlines and pharmaceutical industry spin to uncover the politics and the practices that drive up drug costs. His diagnosis and prescriptions make a valuable contribution to the growing national debate over safe, quality and affordable health care for all Americans."Clarence Page, syndicated columnist for theChicago Tribune

"Merrill Goozner has written an important book. The high-stakes national debate over what to do about prescription drug coverage and costs too often suffers from a dearth of facts and analysis. This volume helps to fill that gap by illuminating the seemingly opaque world of pharmaceutical research and development."Susan Dentzer,Health Correspondent forThe News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0520239458
• ISBN 13: 9780520239456
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 296