A fascinating, fast-moving narrative history of the search for medicines since earliest times, from Neolithic hunter gatherers to the professional drug hunters of today.
The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race.
"Few scientists have the knowledge to perform the studies that are necessary to discover and characterize enzyme inhibitors, despite the vested interest the pharmaceutical industry has in this field.
While the scientific literature covers the use of novel and routine biomarkers for health maintenance and disease intervention, informed perspectives and advice on the unique challenges drug hunters f
An eye-opening look at Big Pharma's unethical and exploitative drug trials in the global South."Medical research imposes burdens. But generally speaking, we don't like to know it .If the history of h
An expose of what the author believes to be the pharmaceutical industry's exploitative drug trials in the global south charges that big pharmaceutical companies covertly engage in unethical drug testi
Nemesis is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel, and perhaps Brazil's most wanted criminal. It's a gripping tale of gold-hunters
Nemesis is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel, and perhaps Brazil's most wanted criminal. It's a gripping tale of gold-hunters
King Driftwood teems with characters and narratives: treasure hunters, drug dealers, small-town eccentrics - blue-rinsed Mrs Dawes-Llewellyn, John the Song and Mothman, George Bush and Saddam Hussein
Ronnie Sears has a college degree, a promising future, a boyfriend, and a plan. But, her perfect life comes crashing down around her in the blink of an eye. Arrested, framed for drug smuggling, and fa