Economics
Selected US AIDS drug prices, May 9, 2012
Manon Ress obtained the following quotes for various antiretroviral drugs on May 9, 2012.
The products are described briefly in the following chart, which provides details on the recommended dose: http://www.aidsmeds.com/articles/DrugChart_10632.shtml
The FDA web page on Antiretroviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV infection: http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/byAudience/ForPatientAdvocates/HIVandAID...
The prices were obtained from http://www.goodrx.com/. for pharmacies in or near Arlington, Virginia or Washington, DC.
Salbutamol (Albuterol)
April 17, 2012. Sao Paulo, Brasil. Farma Ponte. Sulfato de Salbutamol. GSK. 100mcg. 200 doses. 30.91 reais, before preferred customer discount. 19.78 reais after discount. Other than the manufacturer's name, there is not brand name. The product was sold under its INN.
Glossary of pharmacy and drug price terms
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."
340B pricing
DHHS on the 340B Drug Pricing Program
U.S. employment and wages in 14 information sectors
Submitted by James Love on 21. June 2011 - 9:15I 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
BLS Estimates of Employment in the Sound Recording Industries
Submitted by James Love on 20. June 2011 - 8:47I was asked recently to look at some data on employment in the copyright industry. This addresses one set of data points, the BLS estimates of US employment in the Sound Recording Industries.
Occupational Employment Statistics
NAICS 2-Digit Industry Specific Estimates, May 2010
51 Information 2,708,760
NAICS 3-Digit Industry Specific Estimates, May 2010
511 Publishing Industries, except Internet, 758,090, 28.0%
512 Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries, 371,450, 13.7%
515 Broadcasting (except internet), 292,010, 10.8%
517 Telecommunications, 909,780, 33.6%
Pharmaceutical global R&D was 7.9 percent of sales in 2010
Submitted by James Love on 9. June 2011 - 10:20Using 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.
These are the data:
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 billion
Source: IMS Health Market Prognosis, March 2011
Capecitabine (Xeloda) prices, 2010
Submitted by James Love on 3. October 2010 - 13:51Capecitabine (Xeloda) 500mg 120 tabs
