IBD Drug Market
IBD stands for Irritable Bowl Disease. An estimated 1.2 million Americans suffer from IBD. Leading brand name drugs designed to treat this disease include Asacol HD, Shire Lialda, Shire Pentasa and...
View ArticleDrug Company R&D
The market size presented here is an estimate of the dollars spent by the pharmaceutical industry on research and developement in 2009. This is a thorny and complex subject—what costs are included in...
View ArticleDigital Prescriptions
Approximately one third of all prescriptions written by doctors in Estonia, in January 2010, were digital. Geographic reference: Estonia Year: 2010 (January) Market size: 306,000 Source: “One Third of...
View ArticleMedical Marijuana
As of March 2011 there were laws in seven U.S. states that made it legal to sell and use marijuana for medicinal purposes. Those states were California, Colorado, Michigan, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon,...
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DTC Drug Advertising
Direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of prescription drugs is a big business in the United States, as it is in New Zealand, the only other country in which this activity is legal. Anyone who watches...
View ArticlePrescription Drug Sales
Expenditures on health care in the United States have been much in the news for years now. The prices for prescription drugs are among the fastest growing of the segments of this overall industry. And...
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Pharmacy & Drug Stores
The sale of drugs, whether over-the-counter or prescription drugs, has been a healthy, growing business for a long time in the United States. The sale of these products through pharmacies and drug...
View ArticleVitamin Sales
Today’s market size comes from a report about U.S. vitamin purchases published by a consumer analytics firm. The report goes into some detail about where people make purchases of vitamins and how that...
View ArticleGrowing Market for Epinephrine
Anyone with a child in school these days is likely to be very aware of the growing concerns ralated to food allergies. In many elementary schools in the United States, special tables in the lunch room...
View ArticleThe Sleep Business
In 2012, approximately three fourths of internet users searched online for health information. Half of them searched specifically for sleep remedies. According to the National Sleep Foundation only 56%...
View ArticlePharmacy Benefit Managers
The cost of prescription drugs in the United States is a subject about which there is much controversy. As the Affordable Care Act—or, Obamacare—gets off to a rocky start across the nation, we decided...
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Methamphetamine Laboratory Cleanup
The societal costs of the methamphetamine—crystal meth or simply meth for short—drug business, if we can call the trade in this illegal drug a business, is very difficult to calculate. It negatively...
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