National pharmaceuticals policy

required to find an institution that we found was doing something problematic, and analyze it. This assignment opened my eyes to something that was affecting me personally. The topic I chose was the pharmaceutical drug pricing due to the recent Epipen scandal. Due to my connection with Epipens and pharmaceutical drugs, in general, this impacted my view. I never realize how easily companies could raise the prices without having any problems federally. The more I read and searched through this…

Prescription drug advertisements often “display before-and-after scenarios of symptoms a patient may experience prior to taking the advertised drug and the dramatic improvement in life after using the product. This type of advertising may create, whether consciously or not, a desire in the consumer to experience pre-treatment symptoms in order to meet the recommend course of therapy requirements (Melby 332-333). Direct-to-consumer advertising can be attributed to the various issues in the United…

PREPARATION OUTLINE Purpose Statement: To inform my audience about the basics of essential oils. Thesis Statement: Since biblical times, essential oils from plants have been harvested and distilled for topical, aromatic, and internal use by many as part of a wellness regimen. I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: Since the beginning of time, plants have been used for the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of people. Today, some of the most advanced pharmacological drugs mimic…

outrage over overpriced essential drugs has put another pharmaceutical company in the spotlight. Gilead Sciences Inc. apparently knew that their Hepatitis C treatment would be too expensive for most patients and would cause “extraordinary problems” for government health programs, Wall Street Journal noted. The 144-page US Senate report on Gilead's pricing practices is the latest in a chorus of criticisms launched against big pharmaceuticals. The committee overseeing the overpricing by Gilead…

Annotated Bibliography1:- Gibson, P. R., Elms, A. N. M., & Ruding, L. A. (2003). Perceived treatment efficacy for conventional and alternative therapies reported by persons with multiple chemical sensitivity. Environmental Health Perspectives, 111(12), 1498.‏ All The authors are working at School of Psychology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA. Therefore,This research is based on the stability of chemical treatments “conventional medicine” to check whether its…

The introduction of barbiturates at the beginning of the 20th century (López-Muñoz & Ucha-Udabe, 2005) offered critical and profound advances in the field of psychiatric and neurological developments (López-Muñoz & Ucha-Udabe, 2005). Barbiturates were used for the treatment of ailments ranging from sleep disorders, psychoses, neuroses and epileptic seizures (López-Muñoz & Ucha-Udabe, 2005). Barbiturates paved a monumental pathway in the field of intravenous anesthesia and were the first, truly…

Mylan Pharmaceuticals is a multi-billion dollar company that produces pharmaceuticals worldwide. The company produces EpiPens, an epinephrine autoinjector for people with life threatening allergies. Mylan recently raised the price of Epipens from $100 to $608.61 a pair (Bloomberg). Some would say that Mylan’s EpiPen is a virtual monopoly. Consumers and the community are crucial stakeholders in any company and Mylan is being unethical to both of them. They have complete control over the…

standards set up by various governments. Regulatory affairs specialists are needed in many biomedical industries, one of which is the pharmaceutical industry. A regulatory affairs specialist in the pharmaceutical industry has many duties that one has to perform. A basic overview of a regulatory affairs specialist job description is to ensure that a company’s pharmaceutical products are safe and efficient, as well as to receive the appropriate licensing to put their products…

company Mylan and CEO of Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Heather Bresch, during recent years due to the increased price of EpiPen. “… since the drug company Mylan acquired EpiPen in 2007, its price has soared more than 400%, to just over US$600.” For many Americans, the fear of losing a loved one simply because they can no longer afford the medication is very real, as according to the Wall Street journal, “some 3.6 billion Americans were prescribed an EpiPen [in 2015].” Pharmaceutical profiteering has…

regarding the fact there have been innumerable instances where scientific evidence has been misused and falsified, which sent defendants to jail or prison. A. (2012, October 11) The Daubert v. Merryl case was about a drug that the Daubert family pharmaceutical company had produced to cause birth defects. The Daubert Rule requires the testing of the theory, peer view, the known rate of error to a test, and general acceptance of the particular test within the relative scientific community. The…