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Author Werth, Barry, author.

Title The antidote : inside the world of new pharma / Barry Werth.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  338.47615 WERTH    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  338.4761 WERTH    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  338.4761 WER    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  338.476151 WER    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  338.4761 WE    Check Shelf
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description x, 435 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-416) and index.
Summary In 1989, the charismatic Joshua Boger left Merck, then America's most admired business, to found a drug company that would challenge industry giants and transform health care. Journalist Barry Werth described the company's tumultuous early days during the AIDS crisis in The Billion-Dollar Molecule, a celebrated classic of science and business journalism. Now he returns to tell the story of Vertex's bold endurance and eventual success. The pharmaceutical business is America's toughest and one of its most profitable. It's riskier and more rigorous at just about every stage than any other business, from the towering biological uncertainties inherent in its mission to treat disease; to the 30-to-1 failure rate in bringing out a successful medicine; to the multibillion-dollar cost of ramping up a successful product; to operating in the world's most regulated industry, matched only by nuclear power. Werth captures the full scope of Vertex's 25-year drive to deliver breakthrough medicines.--From publisher description.
Subject Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated.
Drugs -- Marketing.
Pharmaceutical industry -- United States.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated.
Drug Industry -- United States.
Drug Industry -- history -- United States.
History, 20th Century -- United States.
History, 21st Century -- United States.
Technology, Pharmaceutical -- United States.
ISBN 9781451655667 hardback
1451655665 hardback
9781451655674 (pbk.)
1451655673 (pbk.)
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