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    For well more than two decades, resistance to use medicines has been a test to the pharmaceutical manufacturers. Rebelliousness has been a test in a genuine medical services concern and adds to the expanding expense of therapeutic care. When prescriptions are utilized erroneously or not taken by any means, social insurance supplier’s time, exertion, and aptitude must be reused and rehashed. Accordingly, the patient stays at hazard for unabated illness. Suppliers and patients can be deceived to…

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    Oxycontin Case Study

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    marketing skills to increase the use of Valium, thereby creating the first 100 million dollar drug. His marketing approach included: indulging doctors with expensive dinners; offering generous speaking fees; and fancy junkets. This approach has been so effective that the entire industry has adopted it. Arthur was so ingenious, that he realized from completing research that the growth area in pharmaceuticals was pain medication. Consequently, in 1984, Purdue Pharma took a cancer pain…

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    individual variations in drug responses for this week through the class lesson. Other medical conditions, cultural factors, lifestyle, race and ethnicity are all variables influence individual response to the medication administration. Recommended dosage and treatment if it is determined that can be a reason to be changed to achieve the desired effect must be considered such individual variation. Progress must include this knowledge to provide the appropriate treatment of drug. Genetic makeup,…

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    ADHD medication is wrongly used in attempt to market the drug to doctors, parents, and patients. To shed some light upon how ADHD medication came to be, Mr. Griggs bought a small pharmaceutical company. He soon discovered that his weight loss pill, Obetrol, might be effective for the treatment of ADHD. Griggs then published his findings and marketed the pill. Later, selling his company to Shire for $186 million (Schwarz 3). Spending millions more to promote this "life changing" pill to doctors.…

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    adviser stated, “we cannot count on drug companies to make necessary medicines affordable or count on them to develop the drugs we most need” (Bernstein). HIV Medication falls under the healthcare market. It’s not ethical to drive up the prices on commonly used drugs that people use to survive. The inflation of prices can create market failure. The issue at hand is that an individual’s pursuit of pure self-interest leads to results that are not efficient. A drug called Daraprim, was acquired in…

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    Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, recently became one of the most hated CEOs in America. After his company acquired the rights to Daraprim, a drug relied upon by patients with weak immune systems (AIDS), he raised the price over 5,000%, from $13 to $750 a pill. Shkreli’s reasoning for the sudden rise in price was that the extra money received would be put towards research and development, and it was only fair since other pharmaceutical companies have made similar price hikes. As he…

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    Turing Pharmaceuticals

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    think that it is right to set such a high price on these drugs just because you can take advantage of the fact that the use of these drugs can be a matter of life and death. I understand that in today’s society making money rules our motives and actions, but you have to ask yourself where do you draw the line? In this case on skyrocketing life saving drug prices I believe the line was way overstepped. According to nytimes.com Turing Pharmaceuticals justified this price jump of Daraprim by…

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    The Medicines Company Case

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    Company acquires drugs that have been abandoned from other pharmaceutical companies due to lack of early state research results. Medicines Company’s success relies on their ability to save “rejected” compounds, receive FDA approval for their used, and to make a profit of the drug. This case study mainly focuses at the first years of this new startup company, mainly on the initial review of their first “saved” drug called Angiomax. Angiomax is a former abandon anticoagulant drug of Biogen.…

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    Relationships between Physicians and Pharmaceuticals Valencia Cave, Holly Costanzo, Sean McCart, Josh Mosholder Towson University Dr. Michael Kim is new to the profession of being a doctor. He is a hard working pediatrician with the health of his patients at the front of his mind. But when a pharmaceutical company, Apativ, come to him with a new drug, Paxaflora, that could save a patient’s life (yet has possible side effects), he is at an impasse. The pharmaceutical gives him gifts like golf…

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    Injectable Drug Shortage

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    In 2011 drug shortages rose to 251 separate medications in short supply (Woodcock, Wosinska. 2012) Commonly these shortages are significantly pronounced, as there is no adequate substitute for these medically necessary medications. The Food and Drug Administration…

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