The New Medicines: How Drugs Are Created, Approved, Marketed, and Sold

by Bernice Schacter

Book Overview

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?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027598141X
• ISBN13: 9780275981419
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"