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"This is a comprehensive behind-the-scenes look at issues that affect everyone: our shortage of data comparing the worth of similar drugs for the same condition; alarming lapses in the detection of lethal side effects; the underuse of life-saving medications; lavish marketing campaigns that influence what doctors prescribe; and the resulting upward spiral of costs that places vital drug beyond the reach of many Americans." "Using clinical case histories taken from his own work as a practitioner, researcher, and advocate, Dr. Avorn demonstrates the impressive power of the well-conceived prescription as well as the debacles that can result when medications are misused. He describes an innovative program that employs the pharmaceutical industry's own marketing techniques to reduce use of some of the most overprescribed and overpriced products. Powerful Medicines offers timely and practical advice on how the nation can improve its drug-approval process, and how patients can work with doctors to make sure their prescriptions are safe, effective, and as affordable as possible."--BOOK JACKET.
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Pharmaceutical Preparations, Pharmaceutical Economics, Arzneimittelwirtschaft, Prescription, Médicaments, Delivery of Health Care, Pharmaceutical industry, Prescribing, Arzneiverordnung, Gesundheitsgefährdung, Side effects, Arzneimittelschaden, Prescription pricing, Geneesmiddelen, Drug Evaluation, Drugs, Effets secondaires, Prix, Industrie pharmaceutique, Coût, Gesundheitsausgaben, Case Reports, Voorschrijven, Costs, Drugs, side effectsPlaces
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Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs
August 9, 2005, Vintage
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Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs
August 17, 2004, Knopf
in English
0375414835 9780375414831
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Powerful medicines: the benefits, risks, and costs of prescription drugs
2004, Knopf
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-436) and index.
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