From Aspirin to Viagra - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Aspirin to Viagra write by Vladimir Marko. This book was released on 2020-07-06. From Aspirin to Viagra available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Aspirin to Viagra, insulin to penicillin, and vaccines to vitamin supplements, drugs have become part of our everyday lives. This staggering global industry wasn’t born overnight; advancements in pharmaceutical science have been happening for a long while, over the course of decades and even centuries. This book tells the history of ten prominent substances and how they came to be common household names. It shows how the creation of such influential drugs often began with the right person at the exactly right—or wrong!— time. The chapters tell the stories of geniuses and charlatans; scholars and amateurs; advances won through hard work or pure luck; and ultimately, the handful of resounding successes that revolutionized a global industry. Beyond the pioneers of the most famous drugs in our culture, the book analyzes how our perspective on medical treatment has shifted over the decades. Modern standards for testing and administering substances have created a new set of advantages, setbacks, and stigmas, all of which are discussed herein.
The Rise of Viagra
The Rise of Viagra - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise of Viagra write by Meika Loe. This book was released on 2004-08-11. The Rise of Viagra available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on interviews with men who take the drug, their wives, doctors and pharmacists as well as scientists and researchers in the field, this fascinating account provides an intimate history of the Viagra's effect on America.
Hard Sell
Hard Sell - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hard Sell write by Jamie Reidy. This book was released on 2010-09-14. Hard Sell available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jamie Reidy is the guy who's been there, done that, and walked away with the insider stories. Inside Hard Sell: Now a Major Motion Picture LOVE and OTHER DRUGS, you'll find yourself rooting for Reidy and shocked by the realities of the world that paid his salary. This comedic expose traces Reidy's experiences from Pfizer training to life as the "V-Man," when Reidy became Pfizer's number-one drug rep during the Viagra craze. With equal parts self-confidence and self-mockery, Reidy takes the reader on a hilarious romp through pharma-culture while revealing the controversial side of the drug industry. From viewing a circumcision to gaining a doctor's rapport to providing insight on why doctors choose to prescribe Drug X over Drug Y, and from how to bargain "sigs" and "scripts" to why the Viagra pill is shaped as a diamond, Reidy discloses everything. A witty, behind-the-scenes look at an industry that touches everyone in America with a prescription, Hard Sell uncovers truths about the pharmaceutical industry you'd rather not know and practices you'd like to believe weren't employed. Hard Sell has been adapted into a major motion picture starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway.
Sildenafil
Sildenafil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sildenafil write by Udo Dunzendorfer. This book was released on 2004-10-25. Sildenafil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This drug is a landmark discovery, which consequently has become the definitive therapy for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED). Following the major breakthrough in the field of nitric oxide (NO)-physiology and pharmacology leading to sildenafil being marketed, the most current information is presented in this reference book, including ongoing research from several disparate groups about NO as endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) and also as a neurotransmitter for nerves innervating erectile tissue in mammals. The development of sildenafil as an oral phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE5) inhibitor drug for the treatment of ED resulted in one of the first products, which made its way successfully from basic NO research to routine clinical therapy. This volume addresses all fields of sildenafil application in both men and women. In a highly competitive research environment with a critical medical need for drug improvements the reader will learn more about clinical resistance to sildenafil treatment and the modalities to overcome the failure rates. The individual chapters cover clinical use, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, biochemistry, and cultural aspects. They are written by leading experts in their respective fields. Therefore, readers a?? whether professionals in the pharmaceutical industry, physicians treating ED, biochemists, chemists or pharmacologists a?? will find a detailed and up-to-date knowledge base about current research activities and an excellent overview for further research on this compound class and its cultural impact.
Laughing Gas, Viagra, and Lipitor
Laughing Gas, Viagra, and Lipitor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Laughing Gas, Viagra, and Lipitor write by Jie Jack Li. This book was released on 2006-09-07. Laughing Gas, Viagra, and Lipitor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Jie Jack Li is a medicinal chemist and is intimately involved with drug discovery. Through extensive research and interviews with the inventors of drugs, including those of Viagra and Lipitor, he has assembled an astounding number of facts and anecdotes, as well as much useful information about important drugs we know and use in our lives today. Figures, diagrams, and illustrations highlight the text throughout."--BOOK JACKET.
