January 2008
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
4h 39m
English
It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions, but hard to get one single remedy. | ||
| --Chinese proverb | ||
The form and structure of the modern pharmaceutical industry has a lot to do with high drug prices. The ways in which marketing and sales of drugs have evolved are as much a result of government regulation as they are of the progress of science and technology over the decades. Let’s look at how drug companies have evolved since World War II to the way they do business today. Then we’ll explore how their drug discovery and development processes have changed.
The pharmaceutical industry and the U.S. government are closely entwined, and the industry—particularly since the 1960s—works diligently to develop and influence ...
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