Pharmaceutical marketing

Introduction In recent news Turing Pharmaceuticals has been on the news for raising the price on their medicine at skyrocketing costs. One in particular, is a medicine known as Daraprim which cost only $13.50 per tablet, saw an increased on its cost overnight by $736.50 dollars per tablet after being bought by Turing Pharmaceuticals. Daraprim is used in curing a parasitic infection that can be life threatening if left untreated.Turing Pharmaceuticals has obtain other older medicines and…

the industry of epinephrine. After a company creates a unique drug, it is issued a patent that prevents any other sellers from entering the industry, giving the single company the power to charge whatever price that they see fit. Patents give pharmaceutical companies monopolies…

Johnson & Johnson is the largest manufacture of health care products worldwide which include pharmaceutical, and medical devices and consumer goods. Johnson & Johnson has been in the manufacturing business for over 100 years with many more years to come without a quality management system this company would not be able to maintain their position in the production industry. There are many factors that go into quality management of any organization such as quality control, quality practices,…

INTRODUCTION: Pharmaceutical field is the research and development intensive field. The search for safe and effective drugs continues to be major efforts for all the pharmaceutical industries. There are enormous complexities for discovering and testing new drugs because of the many aspects of safety, efficacy and economics which determines the acceptability of a drug. Nose is one of the delicate organs of the human body, as a result of which nasal drug delivery is challenge for formulator.…

Drug dissolution testing is important so that we can be able to understand the trend followed by the drug in the biological system. USP Apparatuses are used for dissolution testing but the shortcoming of some of these apparatuses is not being able to mimic the conditions in the biological system. USP Apparatus 3 have recently been developed and has shown to have superiority over the other USP Apparatuses 1 and 2 based on the mentioned disadvantage, and others. USP Apparatus 1 is called the…

they are more susceptible to the placebo effect. Besides, Kaptchuk (2005) take notice that the high dependency on drug companies’ funding for drug experiments makes doctors are more likely to say that the drugs are working. Similarly, in most pharmaceutical trials, it is too hard to find people, so doctors admit the patients who don’t have certain symptom, and they are much more sensitive to the placebos. He pays attention to the genes that may influence the placebo effect in his recent…

On Wednesday 29th April 2014, I was assigned to the same four patients I had the day prior. One of my patients was admitted for sepsis of the R) knee following a total knee joint replacement two months prior. He was a 67 year old Maori gentleman, MRSA positive with a history of gout, hypertension, GORD, bilateral total hip joint replacements and R) sided weakness following a MVA in 2011. During handover, it was stated to us that this patient was due to have his IVABs at both 1300 and 1400.…

Alcohol and drugs have been known to have consequences, but once the use turns into abuse it can lead to grave danger. People who are abusive with are likely to have medical struggles along the way due to the damaging effects of the substance. Often disorders seem to exist with alcohol and drug abuse. Use of alcohol and drugs can turn into more than just a one time thing and can lead to addiction and abuse. The risk of drug abuse grows substantially during a time of change. There are different…

Pharmacy is a branch of health-care system which deals with the medicines, its dosage, drug delivery system, its effects on human body, and drug interactions. Pharmacy is a combination of chemical science and health science which ensures the effective and safe use of the medications. Since my childhood, my curiosity was developed in the field of medicinal science, which developed a keen interest to know mechanism of drugs on human body. During the course of my previous education, I was…

of the government in pharmaceutical regulation will be explored. Examples of how the government regulates the pharmaceutical industry will be presented; furthermore, each event will be analysed to determine whether the regulation was from a public or private interest theory perspective. In the end the goal is to reveal the dominant theory of regulation in the industry and which theory better predicts the outcome of events presented. The government’s role in the pharmaceutical industry always…