pharmaceutical company
Pill-producing corporation
A pharmaceutical company is a business that develops, manufactures, and sells medications.
The term often carries connotations of corporate scale and profit motive, distinguishing these entities from research institutions or small compounding pharmacies: The pharmaceutical company raised prices again.
In casual speech, often shortened to pharma company or just pharma: Big pharma lobbies against regulation.
- drugmakerCompany producing medications
- life sciencesStudy of living organisms
- regulatory agencyGovernment entity enforcing rules
- PfizerGlobal medication and vaccine company
- pill pusherOne who dispenses medicine
biotechnology · vaccines · drug manufacturing · clinical trials · generic drug · research and development · blockbuster drug · black box warning · druggist · Merck · drug rep · lab coat · contraindication · adverse effects · side effects · toxicology · NSAID · patent protection
- business typesbig business, business, corporation, sole proprietorship, partnership
- businessesbusiness, bank, bakery, enterprise, firm
- healthcaredoctors, nurses, hospitals, hospital, clinic
- public enterprisespublic utility, public utilities, public services, national bank, national railway
- Research Institutionsresearch institute, research university, national lab, learned society, research hospital
- Rightsholderscopyright holder, patent holder, patentee, licensor, assignee
pharmaceutical companypatient
Able to wait calmly
hospital · healthcare provider · pharmacy · clinic · medical practice
pharmaceutical companyDoctors Without Borders
Humanitarian medical aid group
medical charity · free clinic · WHO · CDC · NIH
pharmaceutical companyherbalist
Practitioner using plant medicines
traditional healer · naturopath · folk medicine · traditional Chinese medicine · shaman
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