The $800 Million Pill

Description

"Drug companies insist that [prescription drug] prices reflect the millions they invest in research and development ... Merrill Goozner contends that American taxpayers are in fact footing the bill twice: once by supporting government-funded research and again by paying high prices for prescription drugs. Goozner demonstrates that almost all of the important and life-saving new drugs of the past quarter-century actually originated from research at taxpayer-funded universities and the National Institutes of Health ... [Goozner] suggests ways that the government's role in testing new medicines could be expanded to eliminate private-sector waste driving up the cost of existing drugs--p. [2] of jacket.

First Sentence

Eugene Goldwasser retired in 2002 after a forty-seven-year career as a biochemistry professor at the University of Chicago.

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Other Editions

• The $800 Million Pill: The Truth behind the Cost of New DrugsHardcoverUniversity of California Press2004-04-22
• $800 Million PillUniversity of California Press2004-01-01
• $800 Million PillUniversity of California Press2004-01-01
• The $800 Million PillPaperbackUniversity of California Press2005-10-10