Pharmaceuticals

The pharmaceutical industry discovers, develops, produces, and markets drugs or pharmaceutical drugs for use as medications.[1] Pharmaceutical companies may deal in generic or brand medications and medical devices. They are subject to a variety of laws and regulations that govern the patenting, testing, safety, efficacy and marketing of drugs.


Pharmaceuticals

The modern pharmaceutical industry traces its roots to two sources. The first of these were local apothecaries that expanded from their traditional role distributing botanical drugs such as morphine and quinine to wholesale manufacture in the mid 1800s.