A Mathematical Approach to Multilevel, Multiscale Health Interventions : Pharmaceutical Industry Decline and Policy Response.
This book, based on published studies, takes a unique perspective on the 30-year collapse of pharmaceutical industry productivity in the search for small molecule "magic bullet" interventions. The relentless escalation of inflation-adjusted cost per approved medicine in the United States -...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore :
World Scientific Publishing Company,
2013
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | This book, based on published studies, takes a unique perspective on the 30-year collapse of pharmaceutical industry productivity in the search for small molecule "magic bullet" interventions. The relentless escalation of inflation-adjusted cost per approved medicine in the United States - from 200 million in 1950 to 1.2 billion in 2010 - has driven industry giants to, at best, slavish imitation in drug design, and at worst, abandonment of research and embracing of widespread fraud in consumer marketing. The book adapts formalism across a number of disciplines to the strategy for design of mu. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (238 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781848169975 1848169973 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
