This book is a cautionary tale. A modern democracy is a fragile thing. Laws must be balanced with freedoms. Corruption and greed must be controlled, without infringing on the rights of individuals to earn a living. Sometimes ideologies clash. Sometimes people and political parties cheat. Sometimes the people pay.

2016 was one of the worst years ever in the United States of America. And not just as it relates to the presidential election. The whole process brought forth the sheer ugliness that mankind has to offer. Hidden biases were exposed. As were the shameless ways campaigns conducted their operations. The Republican National Committee was caught red-handed supporting its favored candidates over an outsider. Democrats gloated gleefully, but not for long. Just weeks later the Democratic National Committee was busted for doing exactly the same thing. Heads rolled. Fingers were pointed. Lies were...

This book offers a wide-ranging description and analysis of recent developments and current trends in health policy with regard to cancer drug safety. The book opens with an overview of pharmacovigilance for cancer blockbuster drugs, covering both general considerations and efforts to develop a structured framework for the identification and reporting of adverse drug reactions (ADRs). A number of important examples of serious ADRs to hematology and oncology drugs are then reviewed, with evaluation of the lessons learned and the policy implications of the ensuing legal cases and their...