Pharmaceutical industry
How important was establishing drug standards to the evolution of pharmacy as a profession?
The USP is celebrating its bicentennial in 2020. How relevant is it today?
What made you curious about this week’s content?
As the American pharmaceutical industry matured, what has been the primary positive things that have occurred? What have been the most negative things?
What impact has the maturation of the pharmaceutical industry had on health care in the United States?
Are there parallels between the late 1910s and today (100 + years later)?
Additional material:
https://www.usp.org/about
https://www.usp.org/about/usp-timeline
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249017438_The_Process_of_Drug_Development_I_The_Historical_Interplay_of_Political_Economics_Research_and_Regulation
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240534302_The_Process_of_Drug_Development_II_The_Historical_Interplay_of_Therapeutics_Clinical_Research_and_Scientific_Education
