Comments on: US Share Of Global Drug Sales Will Shrink http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/11/us-share-of-global-drug-sales-will-shrink/ News, Comment and Conversation Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:07:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Ed Silverman http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/11/us-share-of-global-drug-sales-will-shrink/#comment-24144 Ed Silverman Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:42:00 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/11/us-share-of-global-drug-sales-will-shrink/#comment-24144 Hi Derek, No, I don't. I've gone to the IMS site but don't see it. I've left a message asking for the report, and will post it if I hear back from them. Sorry for now. Best ed Hi Derek,

No, I don’t. I’ve gone to the IMS site but don’t see it. I’ve left a message asking for the report, and will post it if I hear back from them. Sorry for now.

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]]> By: Derek Lowe http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/11/us-share-of-global-drug-sales-will-shrink/#comment-24141 Derek Lowe Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:54:54 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/11/us-share-of-global-drug-sales-will-shrink/#comment-24141 Do you have a copy of their report, BTW? I'm asking because I can't get your headline out of the AP story you've linked to. According to IMS themselves (see http://www.imshealth.com/ims/portal/front/articleC/0,2777,6599_80528184_80528215,00.html), the share of global drug sales for all of North America wasn't even 50% in 2006. (I know that Canada and Mexico aren't too huge compared to the US in that number, but still. . .) While I think that the overall trend is right - that the US share of total global drug sales is going down - I don't know where the drop to one/third in one year is coming from. And since the overall drop is coming through increased sales in other countries, rather than through any real contraction in the US, it doesn't alarm me all that much. What contraction there is in the sales numbers can be explained by losses of patent protection, I'd guess. Do you have a copy of their report, BTW? I’m asking because I can’t get your headline out of the AP story you’ve linked to. According to IMS themselves (see http://www.imshealth.com/ims/portal/front/articleC/0,2777,6599_80528184_80528215,00.html), the share of global drug sales for all of North America wasn’t even 50% in 2006. (I know that Canada and Mexico aren’t too huge compared to the US in that number, but still. . .)

While I think that the overall trend is right - that the US share of total global drug sales is going down - I don’t know where the drop to one/third in one year is coming from. And since the overall drop is coming through increased sales in other countries, rather than through any real contraction in the US, it doesn’t alarm me all that much. What contraction there is in the sales numbers can be explained by losses of patent protection, I’d guess.

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