Tell your friends about this item:
Tpa for Stroke: the Story of a Controversial Drug Zivin, M.D., Ph.D. Justin A. (Professor of Neurosciences and Staff Physician, Professor of Neurosciences and Staff Physician, University of California San Diego & San Diego VA Medical Center)
Tpa for Stroke: the Story of a Controversial Drug
Zivin, M.D., Ph.D. Justin A. (Professor of Neurosciences and Staff Physician, Professor of Neurosciences and Staff Physician, University of California San Diego & San Diego VA Medical Center)
Authors Zivin and Simmons explain how the remarkable drug tPA came to be used for stroke survivors, the drug's infancy and childhood within the pharmaceutical giant Genentech, and its eventual marginalization due to a convergence of unfortunate political, fiscal, and medical circumstances.
224 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 3, 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195393927 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 208 |
| Dimensions | 163 × 241 × 21 mm · 476 g |
| Language | English |