Definitions
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- noun business The
pharmaceutical or drug-making sector.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a company that makes and sells pharmaceuticals
Etymologies
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Examples
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In fact, what's limiting in pharma is not the number of promising targets from academia ... its the ability to figure out which tiny fraction of these will actually become real drug targets.
Double Drug Jeopardy Nick Anthis 2006
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So as you know, we have our own pharma, what we call pharma 1, force of 360 reps, who call on physicians.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2008
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He's planning forays into new ventures, and his remaining businesses in pharma, drug discovery and glass are ripe for expansion.
The Next Act Anuradha Raghunathan 2010
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And big pharma is not going to be happy if you can grow your own medicine in your backyard, right?
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And big pharma is not going to be happy if you can grow your own medicine in your backyard, right?
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He's planning forays into new ventures, and his remaining businesses in pharma, drug discovery and glass are ripe for expansion.
The Next Act Anuradha Raghunathan 2010
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And big pharma is not going to be happy if you can grow your own medicine in your backyard, right?
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Declared interestged - absolutely no shares, especially not in pharma*
Medpundit 2007
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Of course, development and regulatory costs are so high in pharma that it is questionable whether such improvements would make it to market in the absence of patents.
Double-Edged Patents 2007
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Doctors have to be mindful that pharma is going to loose $40B in sales over the next few years to generics.
Medpundit 2006
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