healthcare and Ranbaxy have been bought by Abbott and Daiichi Sankyo, respectively.[3] Cipla, an indigenous company, lone with a market share of about 5.4% tops the list of top 10 companies in India. The increasing presence of foreign companies among the top pharmaceutical companies in India is may be due to a few buyouts which happened in the recent past. Daiichi Sankyo, a leading Japanese pha...

Funding combination is the most important issue for the companies while they know the amount of required capital. Companies should be careful regarding the appliance of financial providing methods compatible with the investment strategy of company and profitability. This study seeks to examine the relationship between the capital structure and the profitability of pharmaceutical companies in Ir...

regarding to rapidly changing and highly competitive business environment it will become increasingly important for organizations to measure their performances appropriately. with respect to special characteristics of pharmaceutical industry and lack of reported performance measurement, this study tries to design an integrated performance measurement model for pharmaceutical companies. for gene...

Many studies have shown that pharmaceutical companies' funding of clinical trials is associated with pro-industry results. This article reviews the literature on that association, confirming its existence, and discusses its causes and potential responses. The mechanisms of industry influence are varied, more than is usually acknowledged. It is straightforward to identify a number of distinct ki...

OBJECTIVE To determine the informational content of nine pharmaceutical company websites about the antidepressant medication marketed by the company. METHOD A structured, explicit review of materials found on pharmaceutical company websites about nine antidepressants for which no generic drug is available was conducted using eight popular search engines. The accessibility of these websites wa...

We have implemented and evaluated a method to populate a company ontology, focusing on hierarchical relations such as acquisitions or subsidiaries. Our method searches for information about user-specified companies on the Internet using a search engine API (Google Custom Search API). From the resulted snippets we identify companies using machine learning and extract relations between them using...

Vojtěch Kamarád was born on August 10, 1949 in Štěpánov. He received his MD from the Faculty of Medicine, Palacký University in Olomouc in 1973. Then he took a position at the Department of Histology and Embryology where he later became associate professor (1982). In 1995 Dr. Kamarád decided to leave academia and became a product specialist for pharmaceutical company Schering-Plough. Three year...

As the biotechnology industry matures, the opportunity arises to establish companies by ‘spinning out’ undervalued but significant assets from larger biotechnology or pharmaceutical parent companies. Recognising the value in such assets and achieving rapid and meaningful returns on investments in corporate spinouts requires the infusion of the operational discipline of start-up companies along ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the sources of internal company documents used in public health and healthcare research. METHODS We searched PubMed and Embase for articles using internal company documents to address a research question about a health-related topic. Our primary interest was where authors obtained internal company documents for their research. We also extracted information on type of com...