Pharma and Profits

Pharma and Profits

Balancing Innovation, Medicine, and Drug Prices

LaMattina, John L.

John Wiley & Sons Inc

09/2022

112

Mole

Inglês

9781119881339

15 a 20 dias

190

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Acknowledgments ix

Introduction x

Chapter 1 The $1000 Pill: the Fiscal Consequences of Curing Hepatitis C 1

Chapter 2 Enter the Payers: Fda Approval Does Not Guarantee Commercial Success 10

Chapter 3 Pandemic: mRNA Vaccines And The Race For A Cure 19

Chapter 4 Federal Investment in R&d: Why the Government Does Not Deserve a Piece of Biopharma's Profits? 34

Chapter 5 Insulin: the True Cost of a 100- Year- Old Drug 44

Chapter 6 The Costly Alzheimer's Disease Drug: a Questionable Breakthrough 50

Chapter 7 Gene Therapy: How Much Is a Life Worth? 60

Chapter 8 Proving the Value of Expensive Drugs: Should We Pay For Drugs Whose Ultimate Value Is Unknown? 70

Chapter 9 Generic Drugs: Built- in Cost Controls 74

Chapter 10 About Those Soaring Pharma Profits: Are They Driving Healthcare Costs? 80

Chapter 11 Schemes to Lower Drug Prices: the Impact of Reduced Resources on R&d 84

Final Thoughts 96

Index 98
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biopharmaceutical industry; pharma profits; pfizer; pharmaceutical medicine; pharmaceutical ethics; hepatitis c; mRNA vaccines; drug prices; pharmaceutical R&D; pharmaceutical profits; pharmaceutical industry and government; insulin prices; gene therapies; Alzheimer's disease drugs; generic drugs; financing R&D