pharmaceutical industry

Examines clinical drug trials in developing countries of Africa and Asia, discussing the pharmaceutical industry's motivation to test on poor people, the treatment of patients, and ethical issues involved; and providing what the author believes to be solutions to the problem.

An accidental meeting in Paris changes the lives of powerful businessman Peter Haskell and Oliva Thatcher, wife of a famous senator, leading them to question everything they have worked for and believed in, and giving them hope for the future.

When Maxwell Broadbent and his entire collection of priceless art, gems, and artifacts disappear, his three sons discover a video tape that leads them on a wild chase around the globe in search of their father.

Contains over twenty essays that offer varying perspectives on controversial issues related to prescription drugs, such as safety, the promotion of drugs by pharmaceutical companies, and cost.

Provides an overview of career opportunities in the twenty-first century in the pharmaceutical industry, and discusses education and training.

This book is a collection of articles in which authors debate whether pharmaceutical research is safe and unbiased, whether the FDA effectively regulates prescription drugs, and whether pharmaceutical marketing practices in the U.S. are adequately regulated.

Working undercover to stop the black market trade of a sleep-aid drug that has become aggressively sought by a world stricken by pandemic insomnia, Los Angeles cop Parker Haas finds his work compromised by pharmaceutical company corruption.

Discusses what has gone wrong with the American way of health to create the crisis in which the author feels the U.S. is embroiled, and offers a solution that calls for a completely new culture of health and medicine.

Contains twenty-three essays that provide varying perspectives on issues related to the pharmaceutical industry, debating the safety and bias of research, the regulation and cost of prescription drugs, and the ethics of marketing practices.

Examines how, over the last one hundred years, the pharmaceutical, chemical, and processed foods industries have created dozens of myths that are harming people's health and causing widespread illness and disease.