Pharmacists as one of health-care providers face ethical issues in terms of pharmaceutical care, relationship with patients and cooperation with the health-care team. Other than pharmacy, there are pharmaceutical companies in various fields of manufacturing, importing or distributing that have their own ethical issues. Therefore, pharmacy practice is vulnerable to ethical challenges and needs s...

This text reviews the impact of European integration on the health sector (public health and health services) by studying European Union (EU) institutions, functioning, and responsibilities through the literature, documents, and authors' observations. The EU does not have direct health responsibilities, but Community legislation has important repercussions on all member states' health policies....

Policy incoherence at the interface between trade policy and health can take many forms, such as international trade commitments that strengthen protection of pharmaceutical patents, or promotion of health tourism that exacerbates the shortage of physicians in rural areas. Focusing on the national policy-making process, we make recommendations regarding five conditions that are necessary, but n...

Forensic and pharmaceutical study of the illegal circulation falsified (counterfeit, surrogate, counterfeit, modified) alcoholic beverages was conducted within framework interdisciplinary organizational legal, criminal forensic, clinical pharmacological, forensic medical research. It substantiated that harms country's budget, lives health citizens. Summarized reports State Tax Service Ukraine. ...

Abstract Competition investigations start with market definition, which establishes the perimeter of competitive analysis. In this paper, we focus on definition economic markets in pharmaceutical industry, where entry generics different therapeutic areas provides a sequence quasi-natural experiments involving significant shock for originator producer. We show how generic modifies price and non-...