Last year, rosuvastatin (Crestor) was the most prescribed brand name drug in the US, with 22.3 million prescriptions filled and $5.8bn (£3.9bn; €5.5bn) in sales. Worldwide 2013 sales were $8.2bn, the third highest for any branded drug. Given the longstanding, continuing evidence of rosuvastatin’s comparative lack of clinical benefits and increasing evidence of risks, how did this happen? The sh...

In recent years scientific and technological advancements have been produced many classes of Antiulcer drugs in the medicinal market, such drugs are used to treat the ulcer as quick remedies in people, so we selected some drugs for our studies and market survey then to find out the fast movable antiulcer drug had a potential of some selected antiulcer drugs and the reasons for most leading sale...

【Methods】 Outcome measure; sales volume (DDD/ 1,000inhabitants and day, Quarterly) Selected drugs; ACE inhibitors (ACEs; ATC code C09A) Angiotensin IIantagonists (ARBs; ATC code C09C) Study periods; Jan, 2002 – Dec, 2012 Jan, 2002 – Mar, 2013 Data source; from the Swedish eHealth Agency (e-hälsomyndigheten) Drug sales data (by IMS Japan) Statistical analysis Th...

Antipsychotics and Antidepressants Once Again Lead CNS Therapeutics D for the top prescription drugs of 2011 in the Unites States was recently released by IMS Health, and as we have done each year, we will break down the key stats as they apply to CNS therapeutics. Total prescription drug sales in the United States increased from $308.6 billion in 2010 to $319.9 billion in 2011 (an ∼3.5% increa...

Patents on many blockbuster drugs will expire in the near future, opening up the doorways for generic production. Brandname drug companies lose an estimated half of their U.S. sales during the first six months of generic production alone. In an effort to forestall large sales declines, some brand-name pharmaceutical companies are scrambling to delay generic production. One measure brand-name ph...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to evaluate the intended and unintended impact on pharmaceutical use and sales of three public reimbursement reforms applied to the prescription of statins: a Spanish generic reference pricing system, and two competing policies introduced by the Andalusian Public Health Service. METHODS This study is designed as an interrupted time series analysis wi...

Most physicians deny their professional integrity can be "bought" by something as trivial as a cup of coffee or a free lunch. In this paper, we review the social science literature arguing that "gifting" physicians in this way is, in fact, a highly successful method of boosting drug sales. Unlike ordinary consumer goods, the sale of prescription drugs does not take place directly between the pr...

BACKGROUND A great deal of previous work on the pharmacoeconomics of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug abuse indicates that as cost decreases, abuse increases and vice versa. The application of these cost principles to the abuse of prescribed medications is largely unknown. In this paper we assessed whether the introduction of generic products in the U.S. increased the therapeutic use and illic...

Discussed in this Brief: The results of a study to determine the level of street gang involvement in drug sales arrests in two Los Angeles suburban cities from 1989 to 1991. Results are compared with those from an earlier study of gang involvement in cocaine sales based on arrest incidents in south-central Los Angeles between 1983 and 1985. Police departments that participated in this study als...