The New Medicines : How Drugs are Created, Approved, Marketed, and Sold
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“With more people than ever before taking prescription medications and with more drugs having questionable safety records, a wide range of consumers should be interested in this book, which explains how drugs are discovered, tested, approved, and marketed. Biomedical researcher, consultant, and writer Schacter explains the steps involved as new medicines make it to the market in the US. She focuses on two drugs (Celebrex, a pain medication, and Copaxone, used to treat multiple sclerosis) to illustrate the process, stressing that only 10 percent to 25 percent of drugs that begin the human testing process are approved. Schacter describes the different phases of drug testing, including animal testing, and ending with a description of post-approval studies. The text incorporates many statistics and figures; all the information is documented. In the last chapter, "Are We (Well) Served?" the author gives her opinion of the drug approval process, concluding, "We are doing pretty well." Although the book is geared to consumers, it is detailed and comprehensive enough to appeal to any health professional. Recommended. Public and academic library collections supporting lower-level undergraduates through graduate students, professionals, and general readers.”–
“Every year the pharmaceutical industry produces new medicines but are they safe? One of the best ways a consumer can find out more about how such new drugs are tested and presented is by reading The New Medicines: How Drugs are Created, Approved, Marketed and Sold, by biomedical researcher and teacher Bernice Schacter. Chapters provide historical and business background around major new drugs which have been controversial news topics, analyze the FDA's processes, and survey new marketing techniques aimed at consumers rather than physicians. From product launches to unknown factors in drug interactions, THE NEW MEDICINES provides an excellent historical overview.”–
“Schacter, a biomedical consultant, leads readers through the maze of the modern drug industry, explaining step by step how new medicines are invented, tested, and regulated. Writing in plain language for the general reader, she looks at controversies surrounding the rise and fall of the COX-2 inhibitors, the strengths and weaknesses of the Food and Drug Administration approval process, and the pharmaceutical industry's new marketing techniques.”–
Book Description
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? How are they tested? Who regulates their production - and who watches the regulators? How do drug companies produce the vast quantities needed for the marketplace, and why do they market their drugs as they do? The New Medicines leads the reader through the maze of the modern drug industry - from bench to bedside - and provides consumers with a step-by-step understanding of how new medicines are created, approved, marketed, and sold.
The New Medicines : How Drugs are Created, Approved, Marketed, and Sold
The New Medicines: How Drugs are Created, Approved, Marketed, and Sold,Bernice Schacter,Praeger Publishers,027598141X,Clinical trials,Consumer Health,Drug development,General,Health Care Issues,Pharmaceutical industry,Pharmacology,Popular works,Science,Science/Mathematics,Science / General
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