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Pharmaceutical sales representatives or Medical sales respresentatives [1] are salespeople employed by pharmaceutical companies to persuade doctors to prescribe their drugs to patients. Drug companies in the United States spend ~$5 billion annually sending representatives to doctors, [ 2 ] to provide product information, answer questions on ...
In June 2023, Viatris was named to the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest companies. [24] In October 2023, Viatris reached agreements to divest from almost all of its OTC business, its women’s healthcare business, and its India-based active pharmaceutical ingredients business for a total of about $3.6 billion. [25]
This listing is limited to those independent companies and subsidiaries notable enough to have their own articles in Wikipedia. Both going concerns and defunct firms are included, as well as firms that were part of the pharmaceutical industry at some time in their existence, provided they were engaged in the production of human (as opposed to veterinary) therapeutics.
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The following table lists the largest biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies ranked by revenue in billion USD. The change column indicates the company's relative position in this list compared to its relative position in the preceding year; i.e., an increase would be moving closer to rank 1 and vice versa.
The following table lists the largest mergers and acquisitions in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry (those over $10 billion). Transactions are recorded by the highest transaction dollar value (rather than using the inflation adjusted values).
In October 2007, former employee, Sean Mason, filed a qui tam suit on behalf of the United States against Medline alleging the company the False Claims Act and the Illinois Whistleblower Reward and Protection Act by: 1) providing bribes and kickbacks to healthcare providers; 2) fraudulently inducing the Federal government to agree to improper tracking customers in procurement contracts and ...
Scrip World Pharmaceutical News was initially published by advertising company J Walter Thomson but was bought by Dr Philip J Brown in 1976 for £2000, who founded PJB Publishing. Brown sold Scrip, associated titles, and his company to Informa for £150 million in 2003.