GlaxoSmithKline is a U.K.-based pharmaceutical powerhouse formed by a merger in the late 90’s, with the most important merger being that between Glaxo Wellcome and Smith Kline Beecham. The merger created a pharmaceutical industry giant with operations in over 100 countries and annual sales over $25 billion. In the U.S. alone, prescription drugs account for 10% of all medical costs with sales tripling over the past decade and price increases of 150 percent.…
The Medicines Company Case Write-Up: Terence Cho, Felipe Duarte, Aleks Loiko, Robert Shaw, and James Wang…
PharmaCARE (We CARE about YOUR health®) is one of the world’s most successful pharmaceutical companies, enjoying a reputation as a caring, ethical and well-run company that produced high-quality products that saved millions of lives and enhanced the quality of life for millions of others. The company offers free and discounted drugs to low-income consumers, has a foundation that sponsors healthcare educational programs and scholarships, and its CEO serves on the PhRMA board. PharmaCARE recently launched a new initiative, We CARE about YOUR world®, pledging its commitment to the environment through recycling, packaging changes and other green initiatives, despite the fact that the company’s lobbying efforts and PAC have successfully defeated environmental laws and regulations, including extension of the Superfund tax, which was created by Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA).…
Representing the side for prescription usage is Dr. Christopher Gacek and Moira Gaul of the Family Research Council. In their article “Plan B: A Grave Threat to Women’s Health” published in August of 2006, Gacek argues, “Birth control pills, which are essentially a lower dose regimen of Plan B, requires a prescription” (Gacek 1). He later goes on to say birth control pills require an appointment with a licensed doctor to determine contraindications, obtain a prescription, and they must provide medical oversight throughout the usage period of the birth control. Birth control pills are available only for medical reasons because they can cause significant or life-threatening conditions such as blood clots and heart attacks. Their contraindicated…
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The media constantly bombards viewers with the so-called “war on drugs”; indeed the issue that many nations face is one of concern. Due to competition among drug cartels, innocent people suffer injuriously; therefore, these nations wage a theoretical war against the spread and corruption of drugs. However, aside from there being a “war on drugs”, it seems that in today’s modern quest for perfect health, or at least prolonged health, the drug industries in the United States (also addressed as Big Pharma) compete to find and sell the next big drug. These drug industries do not wage war against drugs, instead a “war for drugs”.…
Americans are not skeptical enough about prescription pills. They never really look into what they are taking and that is going to negatively affect their health in the long run. American people will hear that a pill will take away pain and they will do anything to get it. It is truly a disease to be addicted to opioids since you won’t even be able to function without your daily dose because the mind is telling the people that they need it. Other countries are much better off without having all these medications and that will result in a healthier population for those…
HIPPA Privacy Law and Patients’ Bill of Rights are supposed to protect an individual privacy when it comes to their medical information. These laws were created and put into place to establish patient confidentiality and not have patients’ information disclosed without prior consent. In 1998, Dawn Castellano, a pharmacy technician who worked for Arbor Drugs in Mount Clemens, Michigan, violated a patient’s confidentiality by disclosing information to her son regarding one of her customers. The pharmacy technician was filling a prescription for AIDS medication and discovers the customer was a parent of her son classmates. The technician informed her child of the customer condition and later her son taunted his classmates about their father disease. The customer children had no prior knowledge of the disease.…
I’m sorry you had to go through what you did. But may I say, and hopefully you will forgive me for saying this, for a slave, your life was better than most other slaves. After all, you became free. I must apologize for almost giving you away. I should not have trusted that man who told me you were going to run away, after all, you were a loyal slave and a good one. You saw the abuses that many slaves experienced. They had iron muzzles and thumbscrews. Though it must have been scary to watch, it is much worse to have to personally experience such abuses. You also survived the horrible slave ships, one of the many acts of God that fell upon you.…
Nowadays, there is practically a pill for almost any condition, symptom, or slightest abnormality in the human body. The moment when someone starts to feel any minor inconvenience or discomfort, they go running to their doctor to write a prescription to make it all better. Whether it’s taking a pill to lose weight, or being unable to “perform” sexually, America has become a pill-popping nation. Last year, researchers from Mayo Clinic (a non-profit medical and research center) found that nearly 70 percent of Americans were on at least one prescription drug, and 20 percent of them were taking more than five prescriptions at once (“Public Citizen”). There is no doubt that for many people, prescriptions are beneficial and even lifesaving in some cases, but hundreds of millions of these prescriptions are either entirely unnecessary or incredibly dangerous. I believe that America has become dependent on taking prescription drugs for instant relief and it is time for alternative methods to be put into action.…
Class of antibiotic w/c GABHS is very sensitive to: Penicillin - no reported resistance despite decades of use…
The Pharmaceutical industry in India is the world's third-largest in terms of volume.[1] According to Department of Pharmaceuticals of the Indian Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, the total turnover of India's pharmaceuticals industry between 2008 and September 2009 was US$21.04 billion.[2] While the domestic market was worth US$12.26 billion. The industry holds a market share of $14 billion in the United States. [3]…
Eli Lilly and Co. is a pharmaceutical company that was founded in 1876 by Colonel Eli Lilly.4 Its first major breakthrough was the development of gelatin coating for pills, which later turned into the gelatin capsules. Since 1876 Eli Lilly and Co. has been a pioneer in the pharmaceutical industry.5 The main focus of Lilly is the research and development of neuroscience and endocrinology drugs. They have expanded their operations over time into over 60 nations worldwide. The pharmaceutical sector brings in sales of $1 trillion every year.10…
There are important personages who contributed to the accomplishment of this community needs assessment. The community assessment team would like to thank the following for their unyielding efforts in finishing this project:…
* Associated with bad spirits (supernatural). Treatment may be through the spell of sorcerers or with the aid of magical substances.…