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A Prescription for Change

The Looming Crisis in Drug Development

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A Prescription for Change

By: Michael Kinch
Narrated by: William Hughes
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The introduction of new medicines has dramatically improved the quantity and quality of individual and public health, while contributing trillions of dollars to the global economy. In spite of these past successes - and indeed because of them - our ability to deliver new medicines may be quickly coming to an end. Moving from the 20th century to the present, A Prescription for Change reveals how changing business strategies combined with scientific hubris have altered the way new medicines are discovered, with dire implications for both health and the economy.

To explain how we have arrived at this pivotal moment, Michael S. Kinch recounts the history of pharmaceutical and biotechnological advances in the 20th century, relating stories of the individuals and organizations that ushered in the modern era of translational medicine. He shows that an accelerating cycle of acquisition and downsizing is cannibalizing the very infrastructure that had fostered the introduction of innovative new medicines. As Kinch demonstrates, the dismantling of the pharmaceutical and biotechnological research and development enterprises could also provide opportunities to innovate new models that sustain and expand the introduction of newer and better breakthrough medicines in the years to come.

©2016 Michael Kinch (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Biological Sciences Biotechnology Business Development Business Development & Entrepreneurship Medicine & Health Care Industry Pharmacology Science Medicine Business Genetic Disease Health Care

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