pharmaceutical industry
Sign in to saveAlso known as drug industry, pharma, pharmaceutical wholesaler, pharma industry, Pharmaceuticals industry
develops, produces, and markets drugs or pharmaceuticals licensed for use as medications
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, pharmaceutical industry is referenced by 1,834 other articles, and connects out to Merck & Co., United States Food and Drug Administration and The New England Journal of Medicine.
It is catalogued under topics including Industries (economics), Pharmaceutical industry and Pharmacology.
Its subject is documented across 40 Wikipedia language editions.
Research
121,129 papers- How to improve R&D productivity: the pharmaceutical industry's grand challenge.Nature reviews. Drug discovery · 2010
- Physicians Should Refuse Pharmaceutical Industry Gifts.American family physician · 2021
- Physician's prescription and pharmaceutical industry's influence - where have the ethics gone?JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association · 2024
- Pharmaceutical industry sponsorship and research outcome and quality: systematic review.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2003
- Innovation in the Chinese pharmaceutical industry.Nature reviews. Drug discovery · 2023
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- industry
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- short name
- Pharma
- Commons category
- Pharmaceutical industry
- topic's main category
- Category:Pharmaceutical industry
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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.