News Tagged ‘Pharmaceutical

Merck developing possible Fosamax replacement

Back in January we explained how many pharmaceutical companies, following a Hollywood business model, have started to experience an erosion of their profits as patents expire on their “blockbuster” drugs. Aggressive, multi-billion-dollar marketing campaigns lead to multi-billion-dollar drug sales, but when patents expire, so do profits.

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Pharmaceutical industry focus on ‘blockbuster’ medications

The Los Angeles Times on Sunday examined how the business “strategy that has made the pharmaceutical industry one of the wealthiest and most powerful on Earth” might have begun to “betray it.”

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