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Volume 332:1178 April 27, 1995 Number 17

Searching for Magic Bullets: Orphan drugs, consumer activism, and pharmaceutical development

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By Lisa Ruby Basara and Michael Montagne. 266 pp. Binghamton, N.Y., Pharmaceutical Products Press, 1994. $19.95. ISBN 1-56024-859-9.

Searching for Magic Bullets is a primer for consumers and health care professionals on the drug-development enterprise, from the laboratory bench to the medicine cabinet. We learn about the process of discovering new drugs, the development of drugs from testing in animals to large-scale clinical trials, regulations governing how drugs are tested and marketed, the special case of orphan-drug development, and the growing trend among consumers to turn away from this enterprise and seek nontraditional therapies. The authors hope to inform consumers and care givers about the interests of each party in the development and delivery of drugs — . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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