Pharmaceutical marketing

Protection of Human Subjects. After receiving approval from Baptist Hospital and University of Florida IRB committees data collection began. Data was gathered by Tanya Warner, DNP student and employee of Baptist Hospital. Data was kept in Tanya Warner’s office on campus at Baptist Hospital. Computer data and patient’s medical records were password protected. No identifiable data was included in data collected. 2014 Results 2014 Age and Gender. Patient’s identified as being discharge with…

Pharmaceutical companies usually only increase the price of the drug if a competition is found between companies, this is not the case. Some patients do not notice the drastic price increase due to insurance masking the cost. Mylan (EP) is not the only drug that has seen a drastic increase in prices over the past couple of years. After reading several articles it was found that Mylan could only increase the price due to no competition within the pharmaceutical marketplace. Over…

At some point or another in our lives, we have all had to take a trip to the doctor’s office. Often times our visits end with a pricy medical bill and a prescription for some sort of medication: whether it be vitamins, antibiotics, or ointments, at the end of the day we have to pick them up from our local pharmacy. Amongst those who have taken their annual trip to the doctors are patients with Type 2 Diabetes. The horrible diseases that interferes with people’s blood sugar sends diabetics…

Description of the Clinical Experience The purpose of this reflection is to inform the reader of my second and third day in the hospital, where we went out on the floor and interacted with our clients. We got to meet our clients and experience some of the tasks the register nurses do on a daily basis (#C6, #C10). Reflection Initially, on both days my group met in the lobby of the hospital and then followed our instructor to the third floor, where we would wait for the nurses to give shift…

predictable and reproducible kinetics for a predetermined period throughout the course of GI transit and also the system that target the delivery of a drug to a specific region within the GI tract for either local or systemic action. All the pharmaceutical products formulated for systemic delivery via*throw the oral route of administration, irrespective of the mode of delivery (immediate, sustained or controlled release) and the design of dosage form (solid dispersion or liquid), must*should…

The futuristic, seemingly inconceivable concept of a medication that could replicate exercise is examined by Nicola Twilley in “A Pill To Make Exercise Obsolete”, published in The New Yorker. Investigating several such exercise-supplements that exist today, Twilley explores the idea of exercise and its health implications on a broad scale; Assessing how exercise was viewed throughout human history, how it exists in the natural world, and how it seemingly benefits innumerable systems in the human…

will local, state, and federal governments regulate and control the sale, distribution, and or production of medical marijuana? Government reports, medical organizations, and scientific studies have shown medical marijuana as a safe option to pharmaceuticals for relieving symptoms associated with many illnesses. Patients suffering from debilitating or terminal conditions undergo much pain and suffering. However, properties found in marijuana have been proven to relieve them greatly. Medical…

3. Application of Inferential Statistics in Pharmacy With inferential statistics, conclusions that extend beyond the immediate data alone are trying to be reached. For instance, inferential statistics are used to try to infer from the sample data what the population might think. Or, inferential statistics are also used to make judgments of the probability that an observed difference between groups is a dependable one or one that might have happened by chance in this study. Thus, inferential…

many Americans are able to enroll in a healthcare plan because of the Affordable Care Act. The Affordable Care Act “have improved access, affordability, and quality in healthcare for Americans” (hhs.gov). However, the price inflations of the pharmaceutical drugs have created an adverse effect on affordable healthcare, and the presidential candidates are outraged on this effect. Due to the dramatic price inflation of Daraprim, many people are outraged at the new price. Patients are outraged…

Hydroxytriazole, Tosylated compound, Deshydroxy posaconazole and Benzylated posaconazole. (Fig.1) [10]. Therefore, it was thought worth determining the impurities of Posaconazole to ensure the quality, efficacy and safety of the active ingredient and final pharmaceutical formulation. The four processes related impurities, a method for analyzing Posaconazole in the presence of these impurities, and the degradants obtained during forced degradation studies was required to be developed for the…