Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology

The gripping and shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in the stories of Valium, OxyContin and the opioid crisis. The inspiration behind the Netflix series Painkiller, starring Uzo Aduba and Matthew Broderick.The...

Now with a new afterword covering the months-long landmark trials of Theranos founders Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani.'I couldn't put down this thriller . . . a book so compelling that I couldn't turn away' - Bill Gates'A story so incredible you'd...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307452429Author Robert WhitakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

A visit to a physician these days is cold: physicians spend most of their time typing at computers, making minimal eye contact. Appointments generally last only a few minutes, with scarce time for the doctor to connect to a patient's story, or explain...

A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR. An undercover investigation into the synthetic-drug epidemic. A new group of chemicals is radically transforming the recreational-drug landscape. Known as novel psychoactive substances (NPS), they range from so-called...

Everyone knows that antidepressant drugs are miracles of modern medicine. Professor Irving Kirsch knew this as well as anyone. But, as he discovered during his research, there is a problem with what everyone knows about antidepressant drugs. It isn't...

Preserving the Promise: Improving the Culture of Biotech Investment critically examines why most biotech startups fail, as they emerge from universities into an ecosystem that inhibits rather than encourages innovation. This "Valley of Death" squanders...

The 2022 edition of the Rules and Guidance for Pharmaceutical Distributors, the 'Green Guide', is the essential reference for all distributors, brokers of human medicines, importers and distributors of active substances in the UK.It provides you with the...

Join journalist Barry Werth as he pulls back the curtain on Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical company, and witness firsthand the intense drama being played out in the pioneering and hugely profitable field of drug research.Founded by Joshua Boger, a...

The 2022 edition of Rules and Guidance for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Distributors, known as 'The Orange Guide', is the essential reference for all manufacturers and distributors of medicines in the UK.It provides you with a single authoritative...

'[An] immersive debut... with detailed accounts of his trips and vivid descriptions of the scents ... [Roques'] rich travelogue will transport readers' Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)In Search of Perfumes is a fragrant journey across the world,...

With increasing pressure on national healthcare budgets, there has evolved in recent years a greater appreciation of the costs of medical interventions. This has resulted in the burgeoning field of health economics in which the costs versus benefits of...

THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY IS BROKENFrom the American hedge fund manager who drastically hiked the price of an AIDS pill to the children's cancer drugs left intentionally to expire in a Spanish warehouse, the signs of this dysfunction are all around. A...

Synthetic biology will revolutionize how we define family, how we identify disease and treat aging, where we make our homes, and how we nourish ourselves. This fast-growing field-which uses computers to modify or rewrite genetic code-has created...

From the thought leaders at Boston Consulting Group come lessons on how leading health systems around the world are delivering patient-centered, value-based care by focusing on the health outcomes that matter to patients.Delivering better health outcomes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733058919Author Peter KolchinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Evelexa PressPublisher Evelexa PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Big Pharma Puts Profits Over PeopleIn Pharmanomics, investigative journalist Nick Dearden digs down into the way we produce our medicines and finds that Big Pharma is failing us, with catastrophic consequences.Big Pharma is more interested in profit than...

Now a major film streaming on NETFLIX'I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. A tour de force.' - Patrick Radden Keefe, award-winning author of Empire of Pain'Everyone should read this book' - Sheelagh Kolhatkar, author of Black EdgeJohn Kapoor had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375760945Author Marcia AngellFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

The pharmaceutical industry is broken. From the American hedge fund manager who hiked the price of an AIDS pill from $17.50 to $750 overnight to the children's cancer drugs left intentionally to expire in a Spanish warehouse, the signs of this...

A New York Times bestseller and winner of a 2015 Prose Award!There is a threat lurking online. A secret war with the power to destroy your finances, steal your personal data, and endanger your life.In Spam Nation, investigative journalist and...

The contemporary opioid crisis is widely seen as new and unprecedented. Not so. It is merely the latest in a long series of drug crises stretching back over a century. In White Market Drugs, David Herzberg explores these crises and the drugs that fueled...

In this original work, Tom Lawry takes readers on a journey of understanding what we learned from fighting a global pandemic and how to apply these learnings to solve healthcare's other big challenges. This book is about empowering clinicians and...

For Blood and Money tells the little-known story of how an upstart biotechnology company created a one-in-a-million cancer drug, and how members of the core team-denied their share of the profits-went and did it again. In this epic saga of money and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451655674Author Barry WerthFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm...

The inside story of an unprecedented feat of science and business.At the start of 2020, Moderna was a biotech unicorn with dim prospects. Yes, there was the promise of its disruptive innovation that could transform medicine by using something called...

In virtually every decision, a pharmaceutical executive considers some type of forecast. This process of predicting the future is crucial to many aspects of the company - from next month's production schedule, to market estimates for drugs in the next...

'A tour de force' - Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain From the doctor's office to the opioid crisis, The Hard Sell is the story of a pharmaceutical company that got Americans hooked on fentanyl - and how it was finally held to account. Now a...

Mutant Ecologies traces the spinning of new synthetic threads into the web of life. It is a critical cartography of the shifting landscapes of capital accumulation conjured by recent developments in genomic science, genome editing and the biotech...

A vision of the future where the latest Silicon Valley tech meets cutting-edge genetics.Decoding the World is a buddy adventure about the quest to live meaningfully in a world with such uncertainty. It starts with Po Bronson coming to IndieBio.Arvind...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998407500Author F.S. DavidFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Pharmagellan, LLCPublisher Pharmagellan, LLC

Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald Posner traces the heroes and villains of the trillion-dollar-a-year pharmaceutical industry and uncovers how those once entrusted with improving life have often betrayed that ideal to...

New Horizons in Natural Compound Research provides the latest updates in natural compound research (plant, microbes, algae, fungi) and their novel applications in health, agriculture and environment. The book gives recent advances in the extraction of...

Alderley Park Discovered is written by former AstraZeneca chemist George Hill, whose carefully researched text is presented in a wonderfully lively and readable style. The 400-acre site is a unique and beautiful natural environment with a rich, varied...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525566328Author Evan HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm...

A comprehensive overview of the new business context for biopharma companies, featuring numerous case studies and state-of-the-art marketing models Biotechnology has developed into a key innovation driver especially in the field of human healthcare. But...

High-level commentary on various facets of the pharmaceutical industry from a key leader in the field This book clearly explains the value that the pharmaceutical industry offers to society which is often underreported against the more negative topic of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905472147Author T. A. B. CorleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Crucible BooksPublisher Crucible BooksDimensions(mm) 234mm * 158mm * 18mm

Key Account Management Excellence in Pharma & Medtech is designed to help life sciences practitioners develop and execute innovative and effective key account management (KAM) strategies and capabilities. Pharmaceutical and medtech companies are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640095069Author Alexander ZaitchikFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 160mm *...