The pharmaceutical industry is well known for using SAS to perform quantitative analysis for clinical research. Lately, however, competitive pressures have created opportunities in the marketing departments to use SAS for Data Mining. Applications such as sales force planning and direct marketing to doctors and consumers are employing many new SAS tools and techniques. This paper will provide a...

BACKGROUND Occupational injury is related to personal characteristics. This phenomenon is a controversial issue. This paper presents the relationships of certain occupational and individual characteristics with frequency of occupational injuries. METHODS A standardized injury questionnaire was completed for 199 employees in a big Iranian industrial company (MAPNA Group) by the researcher in t...

Formulation, Fill & Finish 2003 10 he technologies behind oral drug delivery have emerged from the mainstream pharmaceutical industry and have become influential forces in their own right, as evidenced by the burgeoning “drug delivery companies” that are at the forefront of innovation and hold their own niche market. Drug delivery companies and their pharmaceutical industry partners are poised ...

The whole pharmaceutical area (pharmacy industry, pharmacy billing, clinical trials, pharmacovigilance, and drug-drug interaction detection) needed various innovative scientific solutions to solve the problems. A systematic review was performed on software applications widely used in including detection of drug interactions that assist healthcare professional. Our concluded computer has created...

The combination of high-performance liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry (LC/MS) has had a significant impact on drug development over the past decade. Continual improvements in LC/MS interface technologies combined with powerful features for structure analysis, qualitative and quantitative, have resulted in a widened scope of application. These improvements coincided with breakthroughs ...

Philippe Calain discusses the health and environmental hazards of extractive industries like mining and explores the tensions that arise when medical humanitarian organizations are called to intervene in emergencies involving the extractive sector.

Hau L. Lee • V. Padmanabhan • Terry A. Taylor • Seungjin Whang Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, Califor...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the compliance of drug advertisements with regulations in Brazil, subject to Resolution RDC No. 102/2000 since 2000, which abides by the WHO's (World Health Organization) Ethical Criteria for Medicinal Drug Promotion, published in 1988. METHODS Drug advertisements running within the period of October 2002 to October 2003 were collected and recorded. Media sources included...

This work studies the processes of growth of the worlds top 150 pharmaceutical firms, on the grounds of an original database which also allows disaggregate analysis at the level of single therapeutical classes and chemical entities. Our findings show that the industry — whose long-term evolution is driven by innovation, imitation and permanent creation of new markets — displays (i) ‘‘fat tails’...

We sent a questionnaire to all general practitioners in 200 English practices randomly selected from three groups defined as the bottom, middle, and top fifths of prescribing costs. The questionnaire elicited general practitioners’ personal and practice characteristics and their agreement with a series of statements about their prescribing attitudes and behaviour. Full details of the methods ha...