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[2023]
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English
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"For Blood and Money tells the little-known story of how an upstart biotechnology company created a one-in-a-million cancer drug, and how the core team-denied their share of the profits-went and did it again. In this epic saga of money and science, veteran financial journalist Nathan Vardi explains how the invention of two of the biggest cancer drugs in history became (for their backers) two of the greatest Wall Street bets of all time. In the multibillion-dollar...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Meet Jeremiah Adams. There are two of him. The offer is too tempting: be part of a scientific breakthrough, step out of his life for a year, and be paid hugely for it. When ViMed Pharmaceutical asks Jeremiah to be part of an illegal cloning experiment, he sees it as a break from an existence he feels disconnected from. No one will know he's been replaced -- not the son who ignores him, not his increasingly distant wife -- since a revolutionary drug...
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Pub. Date
1995.
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English
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The romance of two Americans in Paris, both staying at the Ritz hotel. He is Peter Haskell, 44, a pharmaceutical executive working on a cancer cure who is the father of three sons. She is Olivia Thatcher, 34, wife of a U.S. senator with presidential ambitions, and she is grieving for her son, dead from cancer.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Hard to say when the human species fractured exactly. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion Zorn is the first of his kind--an empathy tracker, an emotional soothsayer, with a felt sense for the future of the we. In simpler terms, he can spot cultural shifts and trends before they happen.
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English
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Maxine Justice is an ambulance-chasing lawyer desperate for relevance and cash when aliens hire her to represent them before the United Nations. An off-planet consortium wants to heal humanity of every natural disease in exchange for 30 percent of Earth's gold reserves. The deal launches Max to legal stardom and makes her an international target for assassins. MediCorp, Star Cross, PharFuture--the big medical companies all have good reasons to want...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Pharmaceutical breakthroughs such as antibiotics and vaccines rank among some of the greatest advancements in human history. Yet exorbitant prices for life-saving drugs, safety recalls affecting tens of millions of Americans, and soaring rates of addiction and overdose on prescription opioids have caused many to lose faith in drug companies. Now, Americans are demanding a national reckoning with a monolithic industry.
13) Deadly proof
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Series
Atlanta justice novels volume 1
Language
English
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In the biggest case of her career, attorney Kate Sullivan has been appointed lead counsel to take on Mason Pharmaceutical in a claim involving an allegedly dangerous new drug. She hires former Army Ranger turned private investigator Landon James to do some digging. When a whistleblower is found dead, it's clear the stakes are higher than ever. Will this case prove deadly for Kate?
14) Crisis
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's involvement with narcotics, and a university professor battles unexpected revelations about his research employer, a drug company with deep government influence bringing a new non-addictive painkiller to market....
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Series
Nick Heller volume 4
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Nick Heller, private spy, exposes secrets that powerful people would rather keep hidden. At the funeral of his good friend Sean, an army buddy who once saved Nick's life and had struggled with opioid addiction since returning wounded from war, a stranger approaches Nick with a job. The woman is a member of the Kimball family, whose immense fortune was built on opiates. Now she wants to become a whistleblower, exposing evidence that Kimball Pharmaceutical...
16) The price
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Series
Bitter Creek series volume 4
Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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When a young man lawyer takes on the defense of a pharmaceutical company in an explosive wrongful death suit that could make or break his career, he delves into a dangerous web of corruption that involves his client and his firm.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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At the beginning of 2020, McCullough was a program director at a major academic medical center in Dallas, Texas. Searching for a treatment for the disease, he followed the longstanding principle that it is best to tackle a sickness early. McCullough and his colleagues developed an early treatment protocol-- which was not welcomed by public health officials. News of their promising results was dismissed; McCullough and his colleagues were attacked...
19) Poison pill
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English
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"After years of struggle, Emma Conway is living the dream: a happy second marriage and a great career. She is the driving force behind Acordinol, a hugely successful product that has pharmaceutical giant Percival & Baxter riding high. But her dream life becomes a nightmare when a Wall Street raider threatens P&B with a hostile takeover. Worse, the raider is no ordinary cut-throat, but her ex-husband Josh Katz, father of their 16-year-old son"--
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