02717nam 22006251 450 991079078060332120230803220408.00-19-756301-50-19-991192-40-19-990904-0(CKB)2550000001159459(EBL)1561211(OCoLC)863043527(SSID)ssj0001040131(PQKBManifestationID)12442743(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001040131(PQKBWorkID)11001310(PQKB)11497193(MiAaPQ)EBC1561211(StDuBDS)EDZ0002341519(Au-PeEL)EBL1561211(CaPaEBR)ebr10796867(CaONFJC)MIL542663(EXLCZ)99255000000115945920130425h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBlockbuster drugs the rise and fall of the pharmaceutical industry /Jie Jack LiOxford ;New York :Oxford University Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (238 p.)Oxford scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2014.0-19-973768-1 1-306-11412-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Oxford scholarship online.DrugsUnited StatesPharmaceutical industryUnited StatesHistoryDrugsPharmaceutical industryHistory.338.4/76151Li Jie Jack440094MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790780603321Blockbuster drugs3713438UNINA