In Sickness and in Health : The Future of Medicine - Added Value and Global Access.

Front -- Table of contents -- Part one -- The Future of Health Care - A Global Perspective -- Unmet medical needs: only cooperation between all partners will lead to solutions -- Access to innovative medicines and orphan drugs -- The Increasing Need for Independent Research -- The cost and added value of personalized medicine -- Breaking the deadlock of budgetary autism: what are the paradigms for future health care organization in Belgium? -- Part two -- WILLINGNESS TO PAY AND SOLIDARITY -- Notes from a Traveler on the Road to Cell Therapy in Diabetes -- Sharing responsibility in the discovery, development and delivery of medicines -- Why health care systems are not patient-centered and what this means -- PHYSICIANS AND THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY : A SENSITIVE ISSUE -- Part three -- Common goals to guarantee accessible health care: a potential win-win situation or just a (bad) dream ? -- Co-Payment and Future Socio-Fiscal Models -- Why We Need A New Approach to Pharmaceutical Innovation: A Pragmatic Answer to a Moral Question -- Challenges and opportunities of Cancer clinical research at Pan-European Level -- Open source drug discovery: the Tropical Disease Initiative -- EPILOGUE -- Cradle to Grave -- LIST OF PICTURES -- Index.

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