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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790780603321

Autore

Li Jie Jack

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2014

ISBN

0-19-756301-5

0-19-991192-4

0-19-990904-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

338.4/76151

Soggetti

Drugs - United States

Pharmaceutical industry - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2014.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.