The $800 million pill : the truth behind the cost of new drugs /
"Drug companies insist that [prescription drug] prices reflect the millions they invest in research and development ... Merrill Goozner contends that American taxpayers are in fact footing the bill twice: once by supporting government-funded research and again by paying high prices for prescrip...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2004.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | "Drug companies insist that [prescription drug] prices reflect the millions they invest in research and development ... Merrill Goozner contends that American taxpayers are in fact footing the bill twice: once by supporting government-funded research and again by paying high prices for prescription drugs. Goozner demonstrates that almost all of the important and life-saving new drugs of the past quarter-century actually originated from research at taxpayer-funded universities and the National Institutes of Health ... [Goozner] suggests ways that the government's role in testing new medicines could be expanded to eliminate private-sector waste driving up the cost of existing drugs--p. [2] of jacket |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-283) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780520939288 052093928X 1417510625 9781417510627 1597344508 9781597344500 1282358243 9781282358249 |