Pharmaceutical Industry

Context:
- It can (typically) contain Pharmaceutical Companies/Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, such as Branded Drug Manufacturers, and Generic Drug Manufacturers.
- It can (typically) contain Pharmaceutical Wholesale Distributors, such as: AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and McKesson.
- It can (often) contain Pharmacy Benefits Managers (PBMs), such as: CVS Caremark, Optum, and Express Scripts
- It can (typically) contain Pharmacies.
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Example(s):
- Wikipedia's List of Pharmaceutical Companies,
- Biopharmaceutical Industry, for biologic drugs.
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Counter-Example(s):
- a Biotechnology Industry.
- a Medical Device Industry (e.g. for Medical Wearable Devices).
See: Legal Drug Trade, Life Science Industry, Pharmaceutical Company, Generic Drug.

References

(Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pharmaceutical_industry Retrieved:2021-4-1.
- The pharmaceutical industry discovers, develops, produces, and markets drugs or pharmaceutical drugs for use as medications to be administered (or self-administered) to patients, with the aim to cure them, vaccinate them, or alleviate the symptoms. 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.

(Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pharmaceutical_companies Retrieved:2021-4-1.
- This listing is limited to those independent companies and subsidiaries notable enough to have their own articles in Wikipedia. Both going concerns and defunct firms are included, as well as firms that were part of the pharmaceutical industry at some time in their existence. Included here are companies engaged not only in pharmaceutical development, but also supply chain management and device development, including compounding pharmacies. Retail pharmacies; firms specialized in the collection, fractionation and distribution of human blood; and medical device manufacturers where the device is not related to pharmaceutical administration are not included. Entry titles have been shortened in a number of cases, so that if the article title of a company is "XYZ Pharma", for instance, the entry will appear here as "XYZ".
  Companies which existed as a joint venture for their entire existence are indicated by a super-script "JV", as in Perseid^JV.