The Drug Hunters
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"A must-read for a 'behind the scenes' look at new drug development.” —Madelyn Fernstrom, PhD, NBC News Health Editor. 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…
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1 author picked The Drug Hunters as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love this book because of the author’s choice of words in tracing the genealogy of solutions to age-long diseases ravaging the early man, as well as some habitual practices that could cause disease infestation.
The book explicitly navigated through these practices through the Neolithic ages to the Italian Alps, Bronze-ages, and to the present day Big Pharma conglomerates spending billions of dollars on state-of the art laboratories well equipped with knowledgeable personnel to discover blockbuster drugs.
The title of the book is so catchy and fact-filled, providing narrative history of solution to human health challenges. The author infuses the…
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