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supplement their income as well. Over the years they have grown to a total of fourteen pharmacies. Not all of them are owned by Dr. Martha, they’re owned by family members that have become partners and some that have opened franchises helping the company name grow. These pharmacies are outside the main city of Guayaquil and are located in small towns like Salitre, Samborondon, Nobol, Santa Lucia, Daule, and Balzar. These small towns are of low income, country style people that work and get paid by

well-structured speech about the importance of medicine. Medicine is an essential part of life. Pharmaceuticals save lives. Research and experimentation will always continue in this field and will hopefully grow even more as time goes on. Medicine is crucial in this day in age. The knowledge of known diseases and the technology society has to determine what’s wrong with patients is incredible. Pharmaceuticals cure known diseases and keep people both alive and healthy. The author discusses the topic

Hunter Striharsky Walling pd. 1 Prescription Drug Prices: Are the High Prices Justified? Many people see the drug price increases made by Martin Shkreli of Turing Pharmaceuticals of the toxoplasmosis drug Daraprim by 5000%, or, the EpiPen’s 400% price hikes as being immoral, unnecessary, and just price gouging, but others and I argue that the increases are well justified and really not detrimental to consumers. Dr. Nitin Damle of the American College of Physicians had this to say on the

Who should be regulating medical marijuana? Majority leader of the California State Assembly, Alberto Torrico asserts that marijuana, used for medicinal purposes, should be legal and regulated to ensure safe, pesticide free, organic cannabis. However, Torrico maintains non-medical marijuana should remain illegal for all California citizens who do not have a physician diagnosed medical need, such as AIDS or cancer. He contents that advancing the cause of legalizing marijuana to provide additional

studies to participants of both genders, regardless of age (FDA Milestones, 2006). The year 2000 brought about the reversal of the FDA’s ruling and regulation of tobacco as a drug. Further protection for children came in 2002 through the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act, which further improved the efficiency and safety of drugs for children. In 2003, drugs marketed for use in animals came under the FDA protection umbrella. The Animal Drug User Fee Act helped to ensure the safety of drugs used

Merck Case Study October 14, 2008 Relevant Facts: Merck was one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. • Merck was about to lose patent protection of two of its best selling drugs, which had been a significant part of their $2 billion annual sales. • Merck began putting millions of dollars into research (up to $1 billion) and within three years, Merck was able to discover four powerful medications. • Profits weren’t all that Merck cared about; Merck’s founder believed

for performance. Recognition is an important feature in retaining excellent employees and for improving performance. Many types of rewards and recognition have direct costs associated with them, such as cash bonus stock awards, and wide variety of company paid perks. The primary objective of providing Rewards and Recognition is to encourage and motivate the employees to do better performance. Rewards and Recognition are one of the motivation aspects in Human Resources. Rewards and Recognition are

Price discrimination is defined as charging different customers different prices for the same product. One major factor of price discrimination is elasticity of demand. Elasticity of demand measures the percentage of change in quantity to percentage of change in price. If the percent of change is greater than one, it is elastic. On the other hand, if the percentage of change is less than one, it is inelastic. For customers who are not price sensitive, or the demand is elastic, price discrimination

husband Christopher C. Bergen, the president and chief operating officer, were reviewing the strategic options for their Cincinnati, Ohio based company. Kendle, a business they had founded over 15 years previously, conducted clinical trials for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to test the safety and efficacy of their new drugs. The company had