TY - BOOK ID - 88193585 TI - The future of drug discovery : who decides which diseases to treat? AU - Bartfai, Tamas. AU - Lees, Graham V. PY - 2013 SN - 9780124095199 0124095194 9780124071803 0124071805 PB - Amsterdam, Netherlands : Academic Press, DB - UniCat KW - Ethics and addiction KW - Economics KW - Pharmaceutical industry. KW - Drug industry KW - Drug trade KW - Medicine industry KW - Medicines industry KW - Prescription medicine industry KW - Chemical industry KW - Drug development. KW - Drugs KW - Design. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:88193585 AB - The Future of Drug Discovery: Who decides which diseases to treat? provides a timely and detailed look at the efforts of the pharmaceutical industry and how they relate, or should relate, to societal needs. The authors posit that as a result of increasing risk aversion and accelerated savings in research and development, the industry is not developing drugs for increasingly prevalent diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, untreatable pain, antibiotics and more. This book carefully exposes the gap between the medicines and therapies we need and the current business path. By ana ER -