Screen LibraryThe world's health care crisis：from the laboratory bench to the patient's bedside
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Elsevier,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam Boston |
| Publication Dates: | 2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: |
Elsevier insights |
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| Carrier Form: | xxiii, 271 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780123918758 0123918758 |
| Index Number: | R19 |
| CLC: | R19 |
| Call Number: | R19/S211 |
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Includes bibliographical references. The world's health care crisis : the United States' leadership -- The health care crisis in other parts of the world -- A brief commercial history of the biopharmaceutical industry up to the year 2000 -- The biopharmaceutical industry in the twenty-first century : titanic challenges ahead -- Understanding research and development and marketing in a biopharmaceutical company -- The pharmaceutical regulators -- The academia-industry relationship -- Translating academic innovation into health care products -- The biotechnology world and its challenges -- Causes of the pharmaceutical crisis -- W At present, human society is facing a health care crisis that is affecting patients worldwide. In the United States, it is generally believed that the major problem is lack of affordable access to health care (i.e. health insurance). This book takes an unprecedented approach to address this issue by proposing that the major problem is not lack of affordable access to health care per se, but lack of access to better, safer, and more affordable medicines. The latter problem is present not only in the United States and the developing world but also in countries with socialized health care syste |