We study cartels that operated in the US generic drug industry, leveraging quarterly Medicaid data for period 2011–2018 and a difference-in-differences approach comparing evolution of prices allegedly collusive drugs with group competitive control drugs. Our analysis highlights (i) difficulty establishing suitable when collusion is pervasive, (ii) importance accounting market structure changes ...

Nitrofurazone is one of the antibacterial nitrofuran agents used topically for skin infections. The drug is effective on the majority of infectious microorganisms. Because of the importance of this drug in clinic, in this study various methods of synthesis of nitrofurazone were examined and the most appropriate method, applicable to pharmaceutical industry was chosen and optimized from the poin...

Article history: Received on: 05/03/2014 Revised on: 14/03/2014 Accepted on: 01/04/2014 Available online: 28/06/2014 The aims of this study were to document the post market research of the pharmaceutical industry and the effects of labeling revisions on post market studies and outcomes of oral anti-diabetics. A literature search identified post market studies of metformin, glipizide, and piogli...

Revisionist scholarship over the last generation has immensely sharpened our understanding of medical politics. We no longer see the history of medicine as the straightforward increase of knowledge, science, and skill; or as the rise of colleges, universities, and hospitals, all representing the evolution ofa natural division ofmedical labour; or as the march, onwards and upwards, of profession...