The Medicines Compacy

Improvements in health care and life sciences are an important source of gains in health and longevity globally. The development of innovative pharmaceutical products plays a critical role in ensuring these continued gains. To encourage the continued development of new drugs, economic incentives are essential. These incentives are principally provided through direct and indirect government funding, intellectual property laws, and other policies that favor innovation. Without such incentives, private corporations, which bring to market the vast majority of new drugs, would be less able to assume the risks and costs necessary to continue their research and development (R&D). In the United States, government action has focused on creating the environment that would best encourage further innovation and yield a constant flow of new and innovative medicines to the market. The goal has been to ensure that consumers would benefit both from technological breakthroughs and the competition that further innovation generates. The United States also relies on a strong generic pharmaceutical industry to create added competitive pressure to lower drug prices. Recent action by the Administration and Congress has accelerated the flow of generic medicines to the market for precisely that reason. By contrast, in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and

The company is so large that no one drug can lift it from its current sales doldrums. In addition, the company was once highly attractive to investors, but its recent stock price fell to 1997 lows. This may put pressure on the company to attempt acquisitions at a time when the company is ill-equipped to integrate a new company into its organization, and it is engaged in a cost-cutting program at a time when it may need to invest even more in research and development (McTigue Pierce, 2005).

Implementing this solution requires additional considerations. First, Medicines Co. needs to thoroughly train its representatives on the cost savings and risks of complication statistics that show the significant effectiveness of Angiomax over Heparin for high-risk patients. This is critical for their interactions with doctors. Second, Medicines Co needs to allocate additional marketing budgeting to demonstrate that Angiomax is a more effective treatment for high-risk patients and not simply an alternative to Heparin. Finally, since Angiomax is close to being approved for heart attacks, the marketing team should perform another analysis of the marketing framework and budget more marketing to highlight the effectiveness of Angiomax in treating heart attacks over Heparin.

One of the multiple dangers of giving a child over the counter cough and cold medication is mixing two or more different medications. “There were additional 26 cases of ADR’s to OTC medications that involved more than one product and were excluded from consideration” (Vassilev 316). Due to the fact that there was not only a dozen but more than two dozen people that overdosed their children on over the counter medication because they gave them more than one medication that lead to an overdose is to many Cough and cold medication is any medication that includes more than one antihistamine, decongestant, expectorant, or antitussive taken by mouth. The common ingredients in cough medications are diphenhydramine, doxylamine, phenylephrine, and pseudoephedrine which is linked to the most deaths. The side effects for the types of medications are cardiac arrhythmias for decongestants, hallucinations for antihistamines, and an altered level of consciousness for antitussives. Around 7000 children are treated for secondary side effects each year in emergency departments due to cough medications. The three biggest reasons that people overdose on these medications is because they receive the medicine to often, they are receiving to big of a dose, or they are receiving multiple cough medications containing the same ingredient (Lazarus 534). With all the information about cough and cold medication that they have out there and the warnings on the medication bottle labels, it does not seem

From a strategic viewpoint, it is my belief that Pills & Co should make a play to purchase Star Genomics for these reasons:

NEOMED had the right idea they developed a product that could stand alone without a strong competitor they brought in experts to help with the managements plans, financial plans and business plans, they set realistic goals and had a strong purpose however they do not seem able to adapt to recent changes in the lagging economy and lack of investors.

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ACS patients are at increased risk of myocardial infarction and death, therefore, the moderate- to high-risk patients with ACS are treated with early cardiac catheterization followed by prompt revascularization (1,2). In order to prevent peri-procedural thrombotic problems during the percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) anticoagulation is required (3). Anticoagulation remains the core of treatment in patients with ACS. The most frequent anticoagulation used during early phase of ACS and PCI is low molecular weight heparins (LMWHs) and unfractionated heparin (UFH) (3). The combination of antithrombotic and antiplatelet agents are efficient in containing ischemic events in relation to PCI, but have been noted to have higher rates of bleeding complications (4-10). Bivalirudin has shown to have a better safety profile when compared with heparin along with glycoprotein IIb/IIIa (GP) administration (11). Bivalirudin for this reason is considered the anticoagulant of choice in patients with ACS.

The strategic implications for Vertex attempting to fund and develop four drugs are as following:

What long-term business model will attract venture capital? Should the company accept short-term partial sponsorship from a large drug manufacturer in exchange for a modest royalty on the drug in the future--or risk going it alone and possibly running out of funds? It is on such decisions that a company's success is made--and lives of cancer patients may depend.

Successful IPO offerings by Quintiles and PPD and their subsequent growth to top 5 CROs in the industry (refer appendix 1), Kendle can follow the same strategy and obtain required capital through IPO. Threats: Kendle is losing contracts to larger CRO’s with international presence, industry consolidation, presence of numerous fragmented CRO’s worldwide, growth of many start-ups through financial roll-up strategy, many CRO’s are on an acquisition spree and Kendle is losing bids to companies such as Collaborative due to shortage of capital, ClinTrials negative performance is affecting other CRO stocks. Competitors: The fragmented CRO industry has hundreds of players ranging from small, limited-service providers to full-service CRO’s, and global drug development corporations which possess significantly greater capital, and other resources than Kendle. CROs compete on the basis of experience, medical and scientific expertise in particular therapeutic areas, quality of work, the capability to handle extensive trials worldwide, medical database management capabilities, and relevant technology to advance research. International presence with strategically located facilities, proximity to clients, and financial capability and cost efficiency are also necessary. In order to build these capabilities for competing effectively, the CRO industry is consolidating as

More exits are expected as the pharmaceutical market is in consolidation phase with Merger and Acquisitions being the most preferred routes taken by the companies to expand. This VUCA environment is expected to result in more exits in the near future as the companies are looking to poach the best talent in the sector.

Bayer AG is fully committed to expanding its business operations through pharmaceuticals, consumer health, and crop science. Bayer AG understands that in order for the company to successfully expand its Pharmaceuticals department they must properly invest in research, development, and marketing of innovative medicinal products. In addition, Bayer AG is developing clinical programs, which will enable the company to provide various of its products to a greater number of people. Bayer AG ability to identify areas in medicine that remain untapped is crucial to the firm’s long term sustainability. For example, Bayer AG has identified the fields of cardiology, oncology, gynecology, and

The research and development of the pharmaceutical industry is very important as the industry relies on it to develop new products to maintain and sustain the growth of the industry (ALRC 2014). According to the Australian Government Law Reform Commission, every year, the total spending in research and development in pharmaceutical industry, which includes drug discovery, pre-clinical testing and clinical trials on drugs is around $300 million (ALRC 2014). Mergers and acquisitions are intensifying in the global pharmaceutical industry, especially over the last 10 years. With factors like exorbitant research and development costs, the relatively shorter product life cycles, and the rarity of discovering a new life-changing drug acting as catalysts, leading pharmaceutical companies now have more cause to step out and look for external collaboration. This results in an increasing number of smaller biotechnology companies merging with bigger pharmaceutical companies (The

Although R&D has been retained by the large pharmaceutical firms, there has been a continuous decline in the R&D productivity. Controlling R&D is imperative to the success of a Pharmaceutical firm. However, as the pharmaceutical industry is maturing, there are diminishing returns to the R&D investment. Fewer and fewer blockbuster drugs are being discovered and therefore R&D is not the most value adding component in the value