Living Forever: The Pharmaceutical Industry

Most people need medicine at some point in their lives. It’s this fact that drives the pharmaceutical industry and makes it one of the most profitable industries today. So much goes into the making of a single pharmaceutical product before it even goes on the shelves, including research, manufacturing, clinical trials, and marketing. Readers discover these stages of development and learn what happens when a wonder drug turns out to have deadly side effects. They’ll read facts and figures th...