Statins are also another type of medication prescribed if you have a high blood cholesterol level, this lowers cholesterol. This medicine blocks the formation of cholesterol and increasing the number of LDL receptors in the liver, which helps remove the LDL cholesterol from your blood. This helps slow the progression of CHD, and will make having a heart attack less likely. However, not everyone is suitable for this medicine.
Summary: In terms of total sales, Pfizer is the world’s largest pharmaceutical company that creates products that serve approximately 150 million people worldwide and sales of approximately $50 billion in 2009. Formed in 1849 as a chemicals business, it has realigned itself to become the world’s leading research based pharmaceutical company and has produced drugs such as penicillin, Lipitor, Viagra, Detrol, and Geodon and thousands of others throughout its history. Focused now on expanding its international offerings, it looks to China, India, and Russia as high potential markets. In addition to human pharmaceuticals, Pfizer has diversified into the animal pharmaceutical market that has augmented sales and profitability to
Dr. Champion is a top notch drug specialist with a careful comprehension of drug store. In any case, following 33 years in business – an aggregate of about 60 years in drug store out and out – changes in the pharmaceutical
Tulsa – 12/15/2011 – Pharma Co., a leading pharmaceutical developer, today announced its plan to terminate the lease on its Plant A facility located in Bellvue, Oklahoma, as part of its management restructuring and cost-cutting measures. Earlier today, Pharma Co. entered into an
Also, the company will want to educate the market and buyers. Angiomax should be seen as the newest and best product on the market! What do you think of the Medicines Company’s business model of “rescuing’ abandoned drugs? Just as anything, the company does face the risk of failure. The fact that they are ‘abandoned’ drugs should be a red flag as well. There is a reason and probably multiple reasons why other companies abandoned these drugs. The list could include cost, profit, safety, effectiveness, and much more. You have to wonder why this company thinks they can make a difference in these abandoned drugs. Lets say Angiomax does become a success. Does this mean the other drugs that they promote will be successful as well? Definitely not. Since the Medicines Company doesn’t have much history, they are more at risk with no accountability. Not to mention, they don’t have other drugs on the market that are or attaining FDA approval. I don’t think that the Medicines Company is ready to pursue this business model. Their focus should remain on Angiomax. If Angiomax is a success, how much will this business model change? If Angiomax is a success, I would expect the business model to change slightly. Their plan with rescuing abandoned drugs could be pursues little by little. After the success of Angiomax they will have more exposure. The company could take baby steps towards the company’s ‘next big hit’ due to
Stroke is a world wide common disease with its occurrence depending on multiple risk factors involved, one of which is high blood cholesterol and LDL level, it is thought that lower cholesterol level decreases the incidence of cerebrovascular ischemia (doc3.pdf) which has been concluded from many clinical trials conducted for the purpose of understanding the adverse effects of statins, drugs that have been manufactured primarily for the purpose of controlling blood cholesterol level, statins are defined as a family of drugs that control and inhibit cholesterol production by acting through
Stroke is a world wide common disease with its occurrence depending on multiple risk factors involved, one of which is high blood cholesterol and LDL level, it is thought that lower cholesterol level decreases the incidence of cerebrovascular ischemia (doc3.pdf) which has been concluded from many clinical trials conducted for the purpose of understanding the adverse effects of statins, drugs that have been manufactured primarily for the purpose of controlling blood cholesterol level, statins are defined as a family of drugs that control and inhibit cholesterol production by acting through binding to 3-hydroxymethyl-3-glutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase, by this mechanism the end result will be a lower LDL level in the blood which in turn benefits the outcome of many states of disease including cardiovascular disease and stroke (doc1.pdf-[1])
Pfizer Inc is a multinational investment company. It ventures in the medical and pharmaceutical industry. It is renowned as a giant pharmaceutical company, founded in 1849. It is based in the United States, New York, Manhattan at Midtown. It is the largest universal producer and trader of pharmaceuticals (Turner, 2005, pg 161). Some of the products availed to the market by the company are Lipitor, Lyrica, Diflucan, Zithromax, Zoloft, Viagra and Celebrex. These products are targeted to patients and persons in need of enhancements in their body systems and anatomy. It has an employee capacity of 12000 people in all its departmental sectors and sub-branches. The sub-branches are distributed all over and in all continents (Turner, 2005, pg 163).
The pharmaceutical industry includes companies that research, develop, market or distribute generic and branded drugs. The industry expanded during the 1980’s and drugs to treat heart disease and AIDS were prominent. Consumer demand for nutritional supplements and alternative medicine increased during the 1990’s with the Internet facilitating direct purchases of drugs. Advertising for direct consumption of pharmaceutical drugs became more prominent; pharmaceutical companies were criticized for over medicating personality or social problems.
After looking at Alothaim’s history , background , and strategies , that helped to conduct a SWOT analysis to state some recommendations in order to improve Alothaim’s ways of operating and try to be a step before their competitors in the market.
Pharm Universe is a global pharmaceutical organization that was established nine years ago. The company currently operates with 1,500 representatives across the globe and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The company was founded after the success of work of a senior scientist in the line of business developing an alternative cure medicine for reducing the lung and other blood clusters. The new alternative medicine incredibly lessened the probability of clot occurrences.
A higher level of fats in the body puts the patient at higher risk for Cardiovascular diseases(CAD). The patient's' family has a history of CAD. Her mom and one of her sister have CAD (Lewis et al., 2014, pp. 733-734). The patient states that she has been taking her meds for cholesterol atorvastatin regularly. Her lipase level was 8272 on 11/11/16 and 2829 on 11/12/16 U/L 1069 on 11/13/16 (Ref range 73-393 U/L). Her HDL cholesterol level was 21 ( ref range>49 mg/dl), LDL Cholesterol level 148 ( ref range: <130 mg/dL). Patient statin drug was on hold because it is contradicted on the patient with an elevated level of ALT 80, 61(Ref range 0-50 U/L) and AST 61 on 11/12/16 and 64 on 11/13/16 (ref range 0-45 U/L). The uncontrolled level of could be the cause of concern for stroke or acute myocardial
Pfizer is known as one of the first and one of the world’s largest Pharmaceutical company that was establish in 1849. It was founded by two cousins called Charles Pfizer and Charles F. Erhart in New York City. Pfizer was as a manufacturer for fine chemicals but because of the discovery that was made in 1950 which made the company the path towards becoming the research-based pharmaceutical that it is update. The product that was first produced was the palatable form of sautonin which was used to treat intestinal worm. The Headquarters of Pfizer is located in New York City, with its research headquarters in Groton, Connecticut, which is nowadays the top multinational corporation that is sold all over the world. It is ranked as the second in the US and Japan market, and Novartis in first place and Roche in third place. The Pfizer Inc. is consisted with a trademark that is called PFIZER. Because of Pfizer’s strategies, Pfizer
Amlodipine Tablets (Amriya) offers a 24 hour cardio protection beyond hypertension control for those patient suffering hypertension with or without other risk factors, Amlodipine offers a high quality product at an affordable cost and convenient once daily dose.
This report provides an analytical strategic review of the global pharmaceutical industry; its origin, evolution,