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Some BIG PHARMA Facts. . .
2008-05-29 18:09:00 With dems (notably Obama) constantly declaring war on every major business that make our lives better I think it's appropriate to debunk some of dems attacks on our pharmaceutical industry: Time to develop and market a new drug: 10-15 years Average Cost to develop a new drug (2006): $1.318 billion Total R&D spending on drugs in 2007: $58.8 billion Generic share of market in 2007:... Click the Headline Link to Visit Copious Dissent and Read the Full Story.
Big Pharma Uses Direct Tactics to Beat Parallel Traders
2008-04-22 17:19:00 Parallel traders are the thorn in the side for pharmaceutical companies operating in Europe. Local sales mangers see their bottom line eroded as independent exporters undercut them with their own product! The considerable efforts that pharma companies have gone to prevent this grey trade have largely failed. The majority of legal actions against traders ...
Despite Challenges- Big Pharma Companies Turn Attention to Emerging Markets
2008-03-19 16:41:00 Faced with dwindling growth rates in the US and Europe, pharmaceutical companies are turning their attention towards emerging pharmaceutical markets whose double-digit growth is fuelled by their recent economic booms. However, although the patient potential of the emerging market countries is enormous, foreign pharma companies are currently tapping into only a fraction of the consumers, ...
Need For Drug Detox Will Increase In Spite Of Big Pharma Cut-Backs
2008-01-28 21:01:00 Prescription drug detox numbers may likely grow as generic drugs replace brands. With 40,000 jobs lost and more cut-backs expected, Big Pharma is shrinking. But before you breathe a sigh of relief, the industry wide reductions occurring among most Big Pharma corporations will probably create even more of a need, not less, for prescription ...
Big Pharma Spends More On Advertising Than Research And Development, Study
2008-01-08 17:16:00 Wow, just think about this: ScienceDaily (Jan. 7, 2008) ? A new study by two York University researchers estimates the U.S. pharmaceutical industry spends almost twice as much on promotion as it does on research and development, contrary to the industry?s claim. The researchers? estimate is based on the systematic collection of data directly from the industry ...
Big Pharma Needs Small Biotech, Part Deux
2007-12-07 21:54:00 Back in October, I used the Small Cap Network site as a platform as something a little more op-ed than I usually write. The subject was the growing reliance on small biotech outfits that large pharmaceutical companies were experiencing. It was an interesting reality if I say so myself (how modest of me), and I think it was accented today by a similar article ...
Senators who protected Big Pharma received millions from drug companies
2007-11-26 03:41:00 Senators who received substantial donations from pharmaceutical companies were instrumental in making a new drug bill more industry-friendly
Doctors are Finally Exposing Big Pharma
2007-11-18 14:31:00 About 90 percent of the pharmaceutical industry?s $21 billion marketing budget is directed at physicians, according to JAMA. There are more than 90,000 pharmaceutical representatives that visit U.S.... A health blog with articles including fda, bird flu virus, cancer, weight loss, vaccines, medicare, conspiracy, hair loss, hpv, virus, politics, supplements and other health topics.
Big pharma and a big problem
2007-09-17 23:26:00 Depression, has always been a big issue with me like I imagine it being a big issue with everyone else. Life is too simple, we work, drive our cars, go to school, all in hopes of reaching some goal, some shiny brass ring at the top of a big ugly pile of old furniture, splintered, and moldy. You have to climb this pile of junk in order to get to prize. For me it seems like my pile of junk smoothed out into, well just a big pile of nothing, I had to keep climbing, because I was too far up to turn around, and going forward just seemed pointless because I lost sight of my brass ring a long time ago. so I just kept slowly climbing, no challenge, no reward. I needed something to avert my attention to other things. I was depressed. I was going nowhere. So I called up the shrink, had myself evaluated, and started taking Buproprion and Methylphenidate. The doctor didn't tell me I shouldn't take it if I had anxiety, he didn't know that much about me. he didn't care. The me...
More Bad Karma From Big Pharma
2007-08-22 22:08:00 This AP/Minnesota Public Radio story tells us of a law in that state that requires drugmakers to disclose how much money they spend on members of state advisory panels who select the drugs used in Medicaid programs, and what kind of revelations are discovered (hmm, can you smell just a whiff of collusion, boys and girls?).As noted?Those panels, most comprised of physicians, hold great sway over the $28 billion spent on drugs each year for Medicaid patients nationwide. But aside from Minnesota, only Vermont and Maine require drug companies to report payments to doctors for lectures, consulting, research and other services.An Associated Press review of records in Minnesota found that a doctor and a pharmacist on the eight-member state panel simultaneously got big checks - more than $350,000 to one - from pharmaceutical companies for speaking about their products.?The AP began looking at the records in mid-June. Soon after, the Minnesota Medicaid Drug Formulary Committee began consider...
?Big Pharma? must plan ahead as patent expiries stimulate generics growth
2007-08-08 11:06:00 Recent figures show that the global generics market grew by 20% in 2005 ? three times the amount by which the pharma sector grew, and four times the growth of patented drugs. In fact, Cygnus predicts continued growth for the sector in the next five years, forecasting a CAGR of 13.62% for 2006-2010. Analysts have identified ...
A Republican Takes on Big Pharma
2007-08-04 14:18:00 The pharmaceutical industry would prefer that the public remain in a drug-induced stupor when it comes to the industry’s far too cozy relationship with the doctors who peddle their products. Fortunately, many people, including some lawmakers, are wise to the pernicious influence of Big Pharma and are demanding greater openness. As reported by ...
By: Kmareka.com
Want some insight into Big Pharma?
2007-06-13 06:33:00 We all know that Big Pharma has been getting away with highly profitable near-criminality for years but because pretty much everyone is on the take, it’s hard to get any real information about the sheer scale of their antics. Open Source with Christopher Lydon, Public Radio International’s hour-long nightly interview/discussions has a terrifically interesting MP3 on ...
By: Carson's Post
The Unbounded Sleaziness of Big Pharma
2007-06-03 13:31:00 I know that I should be long past the point where I am surprised by anything the pharmaceutical industry perpetrates in its pursuit of profits, but the following report by Gardiner Harris and Janet Roberts of the New York Times simply stunned me. The more I read and hear and witness, the more evident ...
By: Kmareka.com
Nigeria Takes On Big Pharma
2007-05-30 16:27:00 It’s bad enough when powerful nations and corporations in the developed world exploit the natural resources of the developing world. But it’s simply egregious when those same powerful entities seek to further their wealth and influence by exploiting people in the developing world. In today’s Washington Post, Joe Stephens reprises some of his ...
By: Kmareka.com
The Big Brother Tactics of Big Pharma
2007-05-22 14:33:00 How many sundry and insidious schemes will the pharmaceutical industry employ to push their products on doctors and patients? The following news article from the Washington Post suggests that these companies will do virtually anything?including use intrusive data mining tactics?to pad their profits: Doctors, Legislators Resist Drugmakers’ Prying Eyes Seattle pediatrician Rupin Thakkar’s first inkling that ...
By: Kmareka.com
Big Pharma and Profit priorities
2007-05-05 18:15:00 Big Pharma and profit priorities: why business ethics never trickle upWednesday, October 19, 2005 by: Mike AdamsBrowse more health books...One of the things I've observed while doing public speaking, being a part of business councils and interacting with a lot of well-connected people in society, is that many people work with the pharmaceutical company known as Merck. Merck seems to be everywhere, with drug reps, consultants, marketing people, email marketing people, scientists, lobbyists and so on. It seems impossible to go anywhere in society without running into somebody who works for Merck.At the same time, I've never met a person who worked for Merck who wasn't a really interesting and capable person. Every person I've met has been intelligent and appeared to be honest. So you may wonder: If Merck is made up of lots of ethical, professional people, how is it that Merck could ultimately be an organization that so aggressively markets products that inarguably cause widespread...
Big Pharma and profit priorities
2007-05-05 18:07:00 Big Pharma and profit priorities: why business ethics never trickle upWednesday, October 19, 2005 by: Mike AdamsBrowse more health books...One of the things I've observed while doing public speaking, being a part of business councils and interacting with a lot of well-connected people in society, is that many people work with the pharmaceutical company known as Merck. Merck seems to be everywhere, with drug reps, consultants, marketing people, email marketing people, scientists, lobbyists and so on. It seems impossible to go anywhere in society without running into somebody who works for Merck.At the same time, I've never met a person who worked for Merck who wasn't a really interesting and capable person. Every person I've met has been intelligent and appeared to be honest. So you may wonder: If Merck is made up of lots of ethical, professional people, how is it that Merck could ultimately be an organization that so aggressively markets products that inarguably cause widespread...
Thailand Kicking Big Pharmaceutical Ass
2007-04-28 07:53:00 Thailand’s health minister Mongkol na Songkhla is kicking some serious pharmaceutical ass. Thus far in his short but effective tenure, Dr Mongkol has done what any sensible health minister should do: namely making drugs affordable for common people. Which in turn has lead the greedy fat fucks who run the pharmaceutical industry accuse Thailand of ...
By: Turd on a Stick
Too Cozy with Big Pharma?
2007-04-26 17:31:00 In today’s Chicago Tribune, Bruce Japsen reports on a recent study that sheds additional light on just how pervasively cozy the relationship between physicians and pharmaceutical companies has become in this country: Doctors refuse to take bitter no-gift medicine Whether it be Subway sandwiches for the office staff or reimbursement for continuing education, gifts showered upon doctors ...
By: Kmareka.com
Big Pharma Plays God Stealing And Altering Pant Compounds Making Synthetic
0000-00-00 00:00:00 It has been claimed by the Nutritional Health Alliance NHA that the pharmaceutical companies are formulating their pharma drugs using natural plant-derived substances This is not totally groundbreaking news of course since the whole pharmaceutical industry was based on natural products such as aspirin derived from willow bark and antibiotics derived from the penicillin mold
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