ABSTRACT

As the most common health-care intervention, prescription drug use shares the most important characteristics of the health-care system in the United States. When everything works well, it makes possible breathtakingly successful applications of science to the prevention and cure of human suffering. But everything doesn‘t always work well. Pharmaceu

chapter 1|24 pages

Policy Process

chapter 8|18 pages

8U.S. Food and Drug Administration

chapter 10|10 pages

Drug Shortages

chapter 16|16 pages

Health Technology Assessment

chapter 18|22 pages

Market for Pharmaceuticals

chapter 23|26 pages

Medicaid

chapter 28|24 pages

Public Health Service