Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Portfolio Management in a Changing Global Environment explores some of the critical forces at work today in the complex endeavour of pharmaceutical and medical product development. Written by experienced professionals, and including real-world approaches and best...

Biodiversity -- Contents -- 1 Natural Products - History, Diversity and Discovery -- Microbial Natural Products: A Past with a Future -- New Concepts and Approaches to Biodiversity -- Natural Products Drug Discovery at the National Cancer Institute. Past Achievements and New Directions for the...

Ein kompliziertes System besser verstehen. Das deutsche Gesundheitswesen ist hochkomplex und für Außenstehende nur schwer durchschaubar. Sogar Experten haben Schwierigkeiten, die Struktur und Funktionsweise der verschiedenen Teilsysteme und Versorgungsbereiche insgesamt zu überblicken. Durch...

In India today only 35 percent of people have access to medicines. This book examines the rise of drug prices in India, and develops a new healthcare model, which if implemented, would extend access to medicines to India's entire population. Sensitivity tests show that the proposed model is...

This book modifies the existing economic theory of health analysis by integrating the issues and principles of moral philosophy in an extended framework. It also develops some operational mathematical models to show how this framework can be applied to health economics and policy evaluation.

How are pharmaceutical technologies developed and controlled in our societies? To what extent should the availability of these technologies be determined by scientific experts, a democratic state, the interests of final users, or ethical principles? This unique collection brings together the...

The pharmaceutical industry has come under intense criticism in recent years. One poll found that 70% of the sample agreed that drug companies put profits ahead of people. Is this perception accurate? Have drug companies traded ethics for profits and placed people at risk?In Profits before...

This paper develops a novel theory linking quantity discounts to bargaining power in scenarios where retailers, organized as a trade association, negotiate uniform wholesale prices with suppliers. Our theory predicts that suppliers offer greater quantity discounts in regional markets where they...