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The 800 Million Pill
Author | : Merrill Goozner |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2005-10-10 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0520246705 |
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"Goozner shows how drug innovation is driven by dedicated scientists intent on finding cures for diseases, not by pharmaceutical firms, whose bottom line often takes precedence over the advance of medicine. Stories of a university biochemist who spent twenty years searching for single blood protein that later became the best-selling biotech drug in the world, a government employee who discovered the causes for dozens of crippling genetic disorders, and the Department of Energy-funded research that made the Human Genome Project possible - these accounts illustrate how medical breakthroughs actually take place.".
The 800 Million Pill
Author | : Merrill Goozner |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2005-10-10 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780520246706 |
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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.
Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic
Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Pain Management and Regulatory Strategies to Address Prescription Opioid Abuse |
Publsiher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 483 |
Release | : 2017-09-28 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780309459570 |
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Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.
Bad Pharma
Author | : Ben Goldacre |
Publsiher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2014-04 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780865478060 |
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Argues that doctors are deliberately misinformed by profit-seeking pharmaceutical companies that casually withhold information about drug efficacy and side effects, explaining the process of pharmaceutical data manipulation and its global consequences. By the best-selling author of Bad Science.
It s Enough to Make You Sick
Author | : Jeffrey M. Lobosky |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2012-04-16 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9781442214644 |
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It's Enough to Make You Sick explains how the American health care system developed and how it has deteriorated into a national disgrace. Lobosky indicts the special interests who have played a role in the demise of American health care, examines the current attempts at reform, and offers a practical, compassionate blueprint for effective change.
What If Medicine Disappeared
Author | : Gerald E. Markle,Frances B. McCrea |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2014-02-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780791479025 |
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Argues convincingly, if counterintuitively, that modern medicine has little impact on longevity or mortality.
Deadly Monopolies
Author | : Harriet A. Washington |
Publsiher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2012-11-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780767931236 |
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From the award-winning author of Medical Apartheid, an exposé of the rush to own and exploit the raw materials of life—including yours. Think your body is your own to control and dispose of as you wish? Think again. The United States Patent Office has granted at least 40,000 patents on genes controlling the most basic processes of human life, and more are pending. If you undergo surgery in many hospitals you must sign away ownership rights to your excised tissues, even if they turn out to have medical and fiscal value. Life itself is rapidly becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the medical-industrial complex. Deadly Monopolies is a powerful, disturbing, and deeply researched book that illuminates this “life patent” gold rush and its harmful, and even lethal, consequences for public health. Like the bestselling The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, it reveals in shocking detail just how far the profit motive has encroached in colonizing human life and compromising medical ethics.
Insomniac
Author | : Gayle Greene |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2008-03-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780520246300 |
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Describes the causes, effects, treatment options, and research in the field of insomnia.