The SAGE Handbook of Healthcare
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The SAGE Handbook of Healthcare

  1. 753 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The SAGE Handbook of Healthcare

About this book

With escalating healthcare costs, changes to the regulatory control on pharmaceutical industries and the inevitable adjustments made in policies and investment in healthcare there is enormous interest in the commercial as well as the scientific aspects of today?s healthcare industry.

The SAGE Handbook of Healthcare provides an authoritative analysis of the current (and anticipated) developments in the global healthcare industries. Providing a unique perspective that interfaces between the science and business aspects, it combines information on the latest scientific developments with applied, commercial business data from the global marketplace.

The Handbook focuses on the aspects of paramount importance in the healthcare sector:

- Pharmacoeconomics

- Pharmacogenomics

- Therapeutics

- Diagnostics

Areas covered include:

- The role of nanotechnology, genomics and cell therapy in medicine

- Diagnostics; Biomarkers and technological advances

- Case studies in oncology and cardiovascular and CNS therapeutics

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Information

Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9781847870483
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781847877000
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Work
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Preface
  3. Foreword
  4. PART I Pharmacoeconomics
  5. Medicare Part D: An Outlook
  6. Changes in US Oncology Drug Reimbursement: Medicare Sets the Pace
  7. Prospective Payment Systems: Opportunities and Threats for the Pharmaceutical Industry
  8. Off-label Prescribing: Overcoming the Reimbursement Barrier
  9. Pricing and Reimbursement Issues in Neurology
  10. Authorized Generics: Look before You Leap
  11. Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement in Canada
  12. Contrasting European and US Patent Laws: Issues for the Pharmaceutical Industry
  13. The Changing Face of European Drug Registration
  14. The Impact of Reference Pricing in Europe
  15. Pharmaceutical Pricing, Reimbursement, and Prescribing in the United Kingdom
  16. Pharmaceutical Pricing, Reimbursement, and Prescribing in Italy
  17. Pharmaceutical Pricing, Reimbursement, and Prescribing in Spain
  18. The Impact of German Reference Pricing on Statins
  19. Opportunities and Challenges in the Japanese Market for Cancer Therapies
  20. Cancer Therapies Face Increasing Reimbursement Pressures in Europe and Japan
  21. The Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Environment in China
  22. Will Point of Care Come of Age by 2010?
  23. PART II Pharmacogenomics
  24. Has Genomics Failed to Deliver?
  25. The Role of Pharmacogenomics in Personalized Medicine
  26. Cell Therapy: A Decade of Opportunity
  27. Nanotechnology in Medicine: Its Time Has Come
  28. Clinical Proteomics:An Engine for In vitro Diagnostics Growth?
  29. PART III Therapeutics
  30. Novel Strategies in Oncology Clinical Trials: The Use ofBiological and Imaging Biomarkers
  31. Antitumor Biologics: Strategies for Success in an Expanding Market
  32. Outlook for Cancer Vaccine Development
  33. Advances Imminent in Antiangiogenesis Therapeutics
  34. Discoveries and Challenges in Early-stage Apoptosis Drug Development
  35. Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Monoclonal Antibodies Will Drive Steady Growth
  36. Opportunities in the Pharmacotherapy of Addiction
  37. Prevention of Organ Transplant Rejection: Current Therapiesand Novel Strategies
  38. Cardiovascular Drugs and Devices Market: Some Successes and Setbacks in Recent Years
  39. Renin Inhibitors: A Novel Approach to Hypertension
  40. Future of VLA-4 Antagonist Drugs and Implications for the Regulatory Process
  41. Impact of Inhaled Insulin on the Insulin Market
  42. Impact of the PROactive Study on the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes
  43. PART IV Diagnostics
  44. Integrating Diagnostics and Therapeutics for Targeted Therapies – Part 1: Optimizing the Comarketing Plan
  45. Integrating Diagnostics and Therapeutics for Targeted Therapies – Part 2: The Importance of Calculating the Return on Investment
  46. Emerging Diagnostic Markers in Alzheimer’s Disease
  47. How Are Translational Medicine Biomarkers Impacting Industry?
  48. Unlocking the Potential of Biomarkers in Targeted Oncology
  49. From Bioterrorism to Predictive Medicine: New Applications of Salivary Diagnostics
  50. Index

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