Chitosan has varieties of applications in both pharmaceutical and cosmetic products. To explore the situation of chitosan awareness and usage in Thailand is an essential information for product development from chitosan. Entrepreneurs or their representatives from GMP certified pharmaceutical and cosmetic manufacturers were interviewed during June 2007 to February 2008. One hundred and five fro...

the purpose of this paper is to make explicit how companies in pharmaceutical sector can ensure their position in different markets by relying on a sustainable competitive advantages resulted from using a good defined marketing model. various factors are highlighted including high research and development roles and costs, hard government regulation in frame of gmp standard, market analysis tool...

BACKGROUND Pharmaceutical industry involvement in biomedicine has produced major benefits but has also caused concern. At present, there is no consensus as to how medical and government organizations should relate to the pharmaceutical industry and this is partly due to the absence of systematic study of the various alternatives. In Australia industry cooperation has been elicited through the '...

This paper is an in depth analysis of the influence that investment into research and development has on a firm’s profitability in the pharmaceutical industry in the United States. The pharmaceutical industry is chosen due to its high intensity of research and development expenditures. The top 16 companies in the pharmaceutical industry are analyzed through regression analysis. The argument mad...

BACKGROUND Interactions with the pharmaceutical industry are known to affect the attitudes and behaviors of medical residents; however, to our knowledge, a nationally representative description of current practices has not been reported. METHODS The Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine surveyed 381 US internal medicine residency program directors in 2006-2007 regarding pharma...

Although biomarkers have been the essence of laboratory medicine since its inception, they are relatively new tools in the development of pharmaceutical compounds. The main utility of biomarkers for pharmaceutical companies has been in making drug development a more efficient and a cost-effective process. This is primarily the case because of the drastic and perhaps alarming increase seen in th...

The pharmaceutical industry is one of the world’s most important production sectors. However, over the last decades, pharmaceutical companies have been facing the urgent need to improve and keep their performances under tight control, an activity they are historically behindhand with, compared to other sectors, such as food or electro-mechanical industries. The increasing speed of new product d...