1st Edition
Excessive Medical Spending Facing the Challenge
216 Pages
by
CRC Press
216 Pages
by
CRC Press
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This work contains a Foreword by Merrill Goozner, Author and Director, Integrity in Science, Center for Science and the Public Interest, Washington DC. This book exposes why healthcare costs have been rapidly increasing and includes a close examination of over-priced drugs. It contains a detailed explanation of how the drug industry takes billions of dollars from society each year and proposes... Read more
The cost of medical care: how much is too much? The nuts and bolts of medical research. Conflict of interest: a major problem in medical research. Drug regulation: two paradigms in conflict. The marketing of drugs: how drug companies manipulate the prescribing habits of doctors. Pricing pharmaceutical drugs in the USA. Potential savings from therapeutic substitution of ten of Canada's most dispensed prescription drugs. Statins: is the net being thrown too wide? Modern western medicine: lots of bucks: where's the bang? Genetics, genomic medicine, and achieving better population health: a flawed strategy. Issues in screening for cancer. The Canadian National Breast Screening Study: science meets controversy. Screening for breast cancer: benefits versus costs. Screening for cervical cancer by Pap tests. Paying for what works: the Reference Drug Program as a model for rational policy making. Disease prevention: the neglected alternative. Promoting the health of the medical profession: environmentalism and commercialism in medical education. A proposed new grand strategy: an integrated health system for the 21st century.
Biography
Norman J. Temple, Andrew Thompson, Anwar Khan
