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In our daily lives, we use different products for various of reasons. In drugstores and in our local malls, there are categories of diverse items, which range from makeup, skincare, hair products, prescription medicine, and much more. They contribute in making our lives easier and more productive and are often designed to enhance our appearance and health. When we watch television or browse the Internet, we constantly see new products being advertised, and each label contains the ingredients and…

If someone uses viagra or any other drug used to treat erectile dysfunction (ED) then he must be getting alarmed by the price that he will pay for sexual satisfaction. I will not advice them that they should stop using viagra as a treatment but I would definitely suggest them to go for a cheaper choice that supplies the same result in the end. But let us first analyze what is the problem that makes a man use such medicines. It is erectile dysfunction. There are many things responsible for ED.…

quickly became the main topic of conversation among the public. As a result of these discussions, the prescribing of this new medication increased dramatically (32). The first known direct-to-consumer advertisement was in the 1980’s by the company Pfizer Inc., who began a campaign known as “Partners in Healthcare,” the goal of this campaign was “to increase consumer awareness of undiagnosed diseases such as diabetes, angina, arthritis, and hypertension” (32). Direct-to-consumer advertising has…

Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) Policy: The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act amends the Animal Enterprise Protection Act of 1992 and gives the U.S. Department of Justice greater authority to target animal rights activists. The law broadens the definition of animal enterprise to include "academic and commercial enterprises that use or sell animals or animal products". It also increases the existing penalties, including penalties based on the amount of economic damage caused, including…

What the highest price increases in a prescription drug? Will for the record there this a drug called Daraprim; this drug was raised up to 5000% of its own cost for per pill not per bottle. The prescription drug is a drug that use for medical reason daily life. Prescription drug is needed because cure major to minor illness in a person or at least reduce the illness from getting worsen. It is a method to help one sickness without visiting the doctor all the time. To get the drug prescription,…

royalties (Cline). Just in the year of 2013, drug companies paid out doctors with 1.2 million payments, totaling to nearly 1.4 billion dollars (Ornstein). There are an estimated 800,000 to 900,000 active doctors in the United States. The drug company Pfizer in 2014, was giving subsidies to about 142,600 medical…

Gupta College of Technological Sciences, Asansol Gupta College of Technological Sciences, Asansol was established in the year 2000 by the Trinity Trust. The vision of this college is to impart quality and continuous education to the young talents of the society. They believe that education process should be never ending and one must be open to new thoughts and learning at all times. Their mission is to provide good learning environment in college. The teaching faculty is highly interactive and…

Proposition 61 is The Drug Price Relief Act and it deals with the regulating of drug price by requiring state agencies to pay the same price that the US Department of Veteran Affairs pays for prescriptions. Although proposition 61 entices many voters, it excludes 88% of Californians. Voting Yes on Prop 61 means state agencies will be prohibited from raising drug prices on any of the lowest prescriptions paid for by the US Department of Veteran Affairs. This will limit the price state agencies…

For thousands of years, in order to ensure their longevity, mankind has had to find the cures to their diseases and illnesses within the world around them. For most of human existence, we did not have doctors and pharmacies as we know them today. Cures and therapies were made from plants and animals found around people’s native environments. As mankind progressed and industrialized the world, we learned how to control the world around us, how to manipulate it on an atomic and molecular level.…

Widening of these blood vessels lowers blood pressure. In angina, amlodipine increases blood flow to the heart muscle to relieve pain due to angina. (WHO, 2013). Amlodipine was discovered by a research team lead by Simon Campbell and created by the Pfizer Corporation. Amlodipine was introduced in the United State in 1992. Just two years after its discovery in 1994 the sale of amlodipine achieved a plateau of 2,000,000 new prescriptions per year (Davies et al, 2005). 2. The slow rate of…