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"When the application for a new sedative called Kevadon--commonly known as thalidomide--landed on Frances Kelsey's desk at the FDA in 1960, it seemed destined to sail through the review process. The drug, billed as entirely risk-free, was already being sold in forty-six countries. But when Kelsey learned that the drug caused terrible birth defects, she and a team of dedicated doctors, parents, and journalists fought Merrell, the drug's American manufacturer,...
2) Cure
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With her son's neuroblastoma in remission, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work, only to face the case of her career: the investigation into the death of CIA agent Kevin Markham. Markham's autopsy results are inconclusive, and though it appears he's been poisoned, toxicology fails to corroborate Laurie's suspicions. She enlists the help of her husband, Jack Stapleton, and together they must race to crack the case before...
3) Misconduct
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Lionsgate Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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When an ambitious young lawyer takes on a big case against a powerful and ruthless executive of a large pharmaceutical company, he soon finds himself involved in a case of blackmail and corruption.
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The romance of two Americans in Paris, both staying at the Ritz hotel. He is Peter Haskell, 44, a pharmaceutical executive working on a cancer cure who is the father of three sons. She is Olivia Thatcher, 34, wife of a U.S. senator with presidential ambitions, and she is grieving for her son, dead from cancer.
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Twelve
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"American Cartel is an unflinching and deeply documented dive into the culpability of the drug companies behind the staggering death toll of the opioid epidemic. It follows a small band of DEA agents led by Joe Rannazzisi, a tough-talking New Yorker who had spent a storied 30 years bringing down bad guys, along with a band of lawyers led by West Virginia native Paul Farrell Jr., who fought to hold the drug industry to account in the face of the worst...
6) Whiteout
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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When a canister of a deadly virus disappears and a lab technician starts bleeding from the eyes, Toni Gallo, the security director of a Scottish medical research firm, knows she has problems. When a Christmas Eve blizzard whips out of the north, a group meets in a remote family house: Stanley Oxenford, the research company's director, who has developed a drug to fight the virus; his children who have their eyes on the money it will bring; Toni Gallo...
7) Whiplash
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Yale professor Dr. Edward Kender's father is undergoing chemotherapy when the supply of a critical accompanying drug suddenly runs out. Unwilling to accept the drug company's disingenuous excuse of production line problems, Dr. Kender hires private investigator Erin Pulask to prove there is something more sinister going on at Schiffer Engel's manufacturing facility in Indiana.
8) The price
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Bitter Creek series volume 4
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Kobo has some problems. His cybernetics are a decade out of date, he's got a pair of twin sister loan sharks knocking on his door, and his work scouting for a baseball league run by pharmaceutical companies is about to go belly-up. Things couldn't get much worse. Then his childhood best friend--Monsanto Mets slugger J.J. Zunz--is murdered at home plate. Determined to find the killer, Kobo plunges into the dark corners and glittering cloud condos...
10) Bloodstream
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Dr. Claire Elliot, having moved from the city with her son to set up practice in Tranquility, Maine, is looking forward to a peaceful life, but when the town's teenagers start committing violent acts, Claire knows she has to find the cause before it ruins Tranquility and her family.
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