this study seek to examine performance of feltham - ohlsen (1995)valuation model at the tehran stock exchange and is trying to identify relation between intrinsic company value and return. this model is trying to determine the intrinsic value of company using their book value. statistical community of this study includes all tse accepted companies and statistical sample is including 37 tse acce...

BACKGROUND Clinical practice guidelines (CPG) are developed, endorsed, and disseminated through professional medical organizations such as the American Psychiatric Association (APA) as the standard of care for health care providers. Because of their influence, it is critical that CPG are based on objective data, unprejudiced by stakeholder groups, and that any financial associations between aut...

Clinical research is a specific phase of pharmaceutical industry's production process in which companies test candidate drugs on patients to collect clinical evidence about safety and effectiveness. Information is essential to obtain manufacturing authorization from the national drug agency and, in this way, make profits on the market. Considering this activity, however, the public stakeholder ...

The productivity of research and development in the bio-pharmaceutical industry has been constantly declining since the early 2000's. One possible reason is that biomedical projects are risky, take a long time, and require significant investment. Hence, substantial capital has been shifted away from the bio-pharmaceutical industry to other industries that are perceived less risky, creating a fu...

Introduction We are both former Directors ofthe Bureau ofEconomics at the Federal Trade Commission, and have studied, lectured and written on the economics of the pharmaceutical industry for many years. As such, we feel obliged to submit these comments to the Commission because, in our judgment, both the Pfizer-Wyeth and Merck-Schering Plough mergers will further retard the rate of pharmaceutic...

Pharmaceutical companies have been known to pose stress and mental harassment on medical sales representatives (MSRs) in-order to increase pharmaceutical sales. This cross sectional descriptive study, conducted during November and December 2014 in the Lahore and Bahawalpur districts of Punjab, Pakistan, evaluates the Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and extent of depression among MSRs in ...

AIMS To describe the number, type and location of ophthalmic companies and their associated product areas and indications. METHODS A retrospective, non-patient-based, observational review of ophthalmic pharmaceutical and device companies with a new product in development. Data was compiled by Internet searches. RESULTS We identified 190 companies currently developing ophthalmic products: 13...

D rug development is indispensable to deal effectively with disease [1]. However, two dilemmas emerge from clinical research devoted to this goal. First, new drugs are the source of a huge economy ruled not by the standards of the medical profession, but by the rules of business and the market [2]. Second, although the testing and the medical community's " blessing " of a new drug lie entirely ...

PURPOSE Medical students are at-risk to the influence of pharmaceutical company (Pharma) marketing. As interactions with the industry come under increasing scrutiny and regulation, previous studies on student-Pharma relations no longer may be accurate. This study assessed students' attitudes toward and interactions with Pharmas at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health...

The technology is still in its early days, but will more pharmaceutical companies take the plunge? And will they fare better in the Twittersphere than they have in the blogosphere? To date, only a handful of pharmaceutical company blogs remain active. Among them are Johnson & Johnson’s site, JNJBTW (www.jnjbtw.com), up and running for more than two years, and GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK’s) “ America...