How complicated is it to identify the "price" of a drug? This is from an HRSA web page.

http://www.hrsa.gov/opa/glossary.htm

Glossary of Pharmacy-Related Terms

"This glossary is based, in part, on Drug Pricing Glossary and Other Key Terms, prepared by Powers, Pyles, Sutter & Verville PC, and is used with their permission. Parts of this glossary also include definitions obtained from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services."

I have another blog that deals with U.S. employment data from the information sector. This one provides May 2010 employment and wage data from fourteen 4- and 5-digit NAICS industry groups in the "Information Sector."

Notes on the data

Using industry assertions of R&D spending, pharmaceutical related R&D spending by the private sector was less than 8 percent of global sales in 2010.

2010 Global R&D by all private companies: - $67.4 billion
Source: Page 2 of the 2011 PhRMA industry profile
http://www.phrma.org/sites/default/files/159/phrma_profile_2011_final.pdf

2010 Global sales - $856
Source: IMS Health Market Prognosis, March 2011

101st Session
EB101.R24
Agenda item 9
27 January 1998

Revised drug strategy

The Executive Board

RECOMMENDS to the Fifty-first World Health Assembly the adoption of the following resolution:

The Fifty-first World Health Assembly,

Recalling resolutions WHA39.27, WHA41.16, WHA43.20, WHA45.27, WHA47.12, WHA47.13, WHA47.16, WHA47.17, and WHA49.14;

Having considered the report of the Director-General on the revised drug strategy[1];