Transcript Life style drug and Me-too drug

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Life style drug and Me-too drug
1.OVERVIEW OF “LIFESYLE DRUGS”
to a recent article in Nature Medicine,1 the market for
lifestyle drugs is forecast to rise from its current $20 billion to over
$29 billion by 2007. As a result of this booming market, companies
have invested over $20 billion in research on such drugs since the
1990s.
Obviously, lifestyle drugs have important financial implications, but
what exactly is a “lifestyle drug”?
Lifestyle drugs are taken in an attempt to increase personal life
quality by means of attaining a certain psychosocially defined medical
or beauty ideal, rather than to manage a medically identifiable, welldefined disease.
Often, patients suffering from somatoform disorders such as
hypochondriac disorders, body dysmorphic disorders, somatization
disorders or persistent somatoform pain disorders may spontaneously
ask physicians to prescribe them lifestyle drugs.
According
2. Why the world spend more money on life-style drug?
 The
benefits of lifestyle drugs can include improved
appearance, help with weight loss, a boost in selfimage and self-esteem, and a fix to embarrassing
sexual complications.
 could
be helpful for you to improve your health,
perhaps as a preventive measure (losing weight,
quitting smoking)
 The
lifestyle drug market is a growing segment of the
pharmaceutical industry due to shifting regional
conditions that affect a population both culturally and
economically.
 We
can attribute the rise in demand for lifestyle drugs
to different factors, depending on the market: an
aging, yet affluent, population; increased access to
healthcare in emerging markets; a greater emphasis
on illness and aging prevention; and increased
marketing and branding efforts.
3.Why do ‘life-style’ drugs receive more
attention from pharmaceutical company than
other drugs?
•These
so-called lifestyle drugs treat toe fungus, obesity,
baldness, face wrinkles and impotence. The market for such
drugs is worth billions of dollars a year, and is one of the fastestgrowing product lines in the industry.
•Rather
than focus on curing life threatening diseases that would
support the needs of these broader stakeholders, global
pharmaceutical companies are only focused on satisfying their
shareholders.
and producing more “lifestyle drugs” is far more
profitable to their bottom-line.
•Researching
4.GIVE EXAMPLES ON HOW THE MONEY
HAS BEEN SPENT ON “LIFESTYLE”DRUGS COMPARED TO OTHES
 According
to a recent article in Nature Medicine, the market
for lifestyle drugs is forecast to rise from its current $20 billion
to over $29 billion by 2007. As a result of this booming
market, companies have invested over $20 billion in research
on such drugs since the 1990s. From this it can be seen that a
sum of money is spent for life-style drugs.
 It
has been told that life-style drugs are used to treat non-life
threatening and non-painful conditions.
 Examples on how money has been spent are as follow:
-conditions like
 Baldness
 Impotence
 Wrinkles
 Erectile dysfunction

Acne
 Weight loss
 Effects of aging
 Improve mental agility
 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC161729/
http://www.johnshopkinshealthalerts.com/alerts/prescription_d
rugs/JohnsHopkinsPrescriptionDrugsHealthAlert_3241-1.html
 http://www.qualityhealth.com/health-lifestylearticles/common-lifestyle-drugs-pros-cons
 http://www.seegerweiss.com/law-practices/drug-injury/SocialResponsibility/
 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC161729/