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pharmaceutical industry

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Also known as drug industry, pharma, pharmaceutical wholesaler, pharma industry, Pharmaceuticals industry

develops, produces, and markets drugs or pharmaceuticals licensed for use as medications

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Encyclopedic overview

A drug manufacturer inspection by the US Food and Drug Administration

The pharmaceutical industry is a medical industry that discovers, develops, produces, and markets pharmaceutical goods such as medications. Medications are then administered to (or self-administered by) patients for curing or preventing disease or for alleviating symptoms of illness or injury.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pharmaceutical industry” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.