Living Forever delves into the world of pharmaceuticals to discover how companies are making billions by keeping people healthy. Find out how pharmaceuticals make money from treatments, the lengths they go to in order to find and develop new drugs and how an ever-ageing population means that business will continue to boom for this supergiant industry.

Discover the world's biggest money-making industries and the secrets of their success in Big-time Business. From the pharmaceutical industry and entertainment world through to the business of beauty, banking, social networking and energy, find out why these enterprising worlds have a grip on the global economy and are considered the biggest money-generators on the planet. A high-interest exploration of the business world for 9+ readers.

This book features in the following series: Big Time Business, Big-Time Business .

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by Hachette Children's Group .

Matt Anniss is a highly experienced music journalist and writer. He regularly reviews band performances and contributes features for a number of music magazines.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: Rise of the Pharmaceutical Industry
• 1: Making Medicines: research and development, clinical trials, patents, marketing medicines
• 1: The Big Players: taking risks, investments, image management
• 1: Controversies and Challenges: using people's fear of illness, drug trials and error, relationships between pharmaceuticals and the health industry
• 1: Global explorations and exploitations of resources
• 1: Future of Pharmaceuticals: use of the Internet, illegal medicines
• 1: Glossary
• 1: For More Information
• 1: Index