Blockbuster drugs : the rise and fall of the pharmaceutical industry / Jie Jack Li.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Li, Jie Jack.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drugs--United States.

Drugs.

Pharmaceutical industry--United States--History.

Pharmaceutical industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Blockbuster drugs - each of which generates more than a billion dollars a year in revenue - have revolutionized the industry since the early 1980s, when sales of Tagamet alone transformed a minor Philadelphia-based firm into the world's ninth-largest pharmaceutical company. In this volume, Jie Jack Li tells the fascinating stories behind the discovery and development of these highly lucrative medicines, while also exploring the tumult the industry now faces as the'patent cliff' nears.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Table of Contents Chapter 1 Before the Age of Blockbuster Drugs Chapter 2 The Beginning of an Era - The First Blockbuster Drug Tagamet Chapter 3 More Blockbuster Drugs for Ulcer Chapter 4 Antihistamines as Allergy Medicines Chapter 5 Blood Thinners, From Heparin to Plavix Chapter 6 Conquest of Pain

Analgesics: from Morphine to Lyrica Chapter 7 Lessons Bibliography Appendix Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-756301-5

0-19-991192-4

0-19-990904-0

OCLC:

863043527