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Wellness Market Opportunities in the Aging American Population: Alternative Medicine Markets for Age-Related Health Issues
Published: September 1, 2004 | Price: $3,500.00 – $7,000.00
With an aging population in the United States, the incidence of prevalence of age-related diseases and disorders is expected to mount rapidly over the next decade. Since senior citizens already consume a disproportionate amount of healthcare dollars, the economic picture will only go from bad to worse insofar as healthcare is concerned. The solution to this problem, for this generation and the future, is prevention. The new emphasis on prevention opens up a scope of opportunity in the alternative care...
Electrical and Magnetic Neurostimulation: Applications, Technologies, and Market Potential
Published: September 1, 2004 | Price: $3,500.00 – $7,000.00
Neural and muscular stimulation by electronic and magnetic means have evolved into a burgeoning product development and commercial fields. For decades, transcutaneous electronic nerve stimulation (TENS) has been a mainstay in the pain relief arsenal. Through the years, as biocompatibility problems were being solved, electrode and sensor implants developed into a multitude of technologies with healthcare applications. The growing approval of these applications by government regulators and the growing acceptance by insurance carriers have driven the market. These techniques have...
Molecular Nanotechnology in Medicine: A Market Briefing
Published: September 1, 2004 | Price: $895.00 – $1,790.00
Nanotechnology is no longer a bench-top curiosity. It is becoming a real commercial force for a variety of applications. This market briefing discusses the state of play in the race to commercialize products and forecasts likely market scenarios. The briefing forecasts the market in generally promising areas such as cancer therapeutics, specialized drug delivery, diagnostics, and topical therapies, reviewing what companies are doing in those markets.
U.S. Market for Over-the-Counter Gastrointestinal Products, 2nd Edition, The
Published: August 1, 2004 | Price: $1,995.00 – $5,990.00
The market for OTC Gastrointestinal products has gone through several significant changes in the past 5 years, most of which have to do with the Rx-to-OTC switches of two types of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) drugs: H2 receptor antagonists and proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). This report on the U.S. market for OTC GI products presents a description of upper gastrointestinal conditions and diseases, the OTC treatments available, and clinical and business trends affecting the market, consumer behavior and attitudes, and...
Immunomodulators in Cancer Therapy: Emerging Products and Markets
Published: August 1, 2004 | Price: $3,500.00 – $7,000.00
This Kalorama Information report focuses on current and emerging immunomodulators for cancer. The report covers both current and emerging cancer immunomodulators in detail. The report includes statistical information for cancers by type worldwide, with special emphasis on the U.S. market. Specifically, cancers where there are current products available or are in development are profiled. These include bladder, breast, colorectal, head/neck, kidney, lung, ovarian, pancreatic, and prostate cancers, as well as leukemia, lymphoma, melanoma, multiple myeloma, and neuroblastoma. The current market...
Molecular Diagnostics for Blood Banking Applications: Testing volume, cost per test, and market potential
Published: August 1, 2004 | Price: $995.00 – $1,910.00
Blood banking has been the most dynamic testing segment to adopt molecular diagnostics approaches since their introduction. Screening for HIV, HCV and HBV in donated blood, plasma and organs has largely been done by immunoassay procedures. In conjunction with background screening, this has become a very effective approach toward guaranteeing the safety of the blood/organ supply. However, there is a lag time between infection with these viruses and the production of antibodies against them. In some cases, such as HBV,...
Ambulatory Infusion Pumps in Pain Management: A Market Briefing
Published: August 1, 2004 | Price: $895.00 – $1,790.00
After years of neglect, concerns over pain, how it is assessed and managed on a patient-by-patient basis have captured the attention of health care professionals and the public. There are a variety of issues that have acted to draw this attention, including the high prevalence of pain, continuing evidence that pain is undertreated and a growing awareness of the negative consequences of poor pain management. Infusion pumps were first introduced in the 1960s. These devices ushered in a whole new...
Inhaled Insulin: A Market Briefing
Published: July 1, 2004 | Price: $895.00 – $1,790.00
Alternative routes of administration for insulin has been one of the leading drivers of drug delivery industry. Although transdermal and transmucosal systems have shown promise and true oral delivery remains a goal, pulmonary delivery has emerged as the leading area of development. Several major players in the pharmaceutical industry have given their backing to inhaled insulin projects, and product launches are imminent. However, the exact make-up of the market, patient acceptance, and regulatory progress are still not completely clear. This...
Pharmaceutical Outsourcing Opportunities Post Launch: Contract Manufacturing, and Sales and Marketing
Published: July 1, 2004 | Price: $3,500.00 – $7,000.00
After decades of sustained growth and profitability, the pharmaceutical industry has been positioned as one of the few recession proof industries based on its performance through multiple economical cycles. In recent years, there have been visible strains in the pharmaceutical business. With a downturn in fortunes, many pharmaceutical companies are searching for business solutions to streamline operations and cut costs as they strive to continue generating above-average shareholder returns. Outsourcing has become an integral, ongoing element of pharmaceutical companies’ business...
Facial Cosmetic Surgery and Rejuvenation Markets
Published: July 1, 2004 | Price: $3,500.00 – $7,000.00
New technologies and alternatives to traditional cosmetic surgery have opened up a huge new market for anti-aging products. Cosmetic facial rejuvenation is no longer the purview of plastic surgeons, but represents a booming cash business for a large number of dermatologist and other practitioners. Botox, dermal fillers, resurfacing modalities, lasers, and other alternatives are creating a dynamic and growing marketplace and finding millions of eager patients. This 400-page report examines the competing technologies, procedures, and options available to physicians, non-physician...
Monoclonal Antibodies in Cancer Therapy: Emerging Products and Markets
Published: June 1, 2004 | Price: $3,500.00 – $7,000.00
In 2003, the market for monoclonal antibodies in the treatment of cancer is just short of $2.8 billion and growing at a phenomenal rate. The market is fueled by leading products such as Rituxan and Herceptin; however, other products continue to demand more attention each year. This study reviews market data for the years 2001 to the present and forecasts the market to 2008, including Kalorama’s estimates of the competitive market share in 2008 based on the current pipeline and...
Market for Generic Biologics: Issues, Trends, and Market Potential, The
Published: June 1, 2004 | Price: $1,500.00 – $3,000.00
Biologics, or biopharmaceuticals, are synthetic or recombinant versions of natural biologic substances, including proteins such as enzymes or antibodies and nucleic acids such as DNA or RNA. Generic products are non-patented chemical and therapeutic equivalents of brand name drugs. However, biogenerics are not generic biologics, because there can technically be no generic form of biologics. That is, the complex process of creating biologics, means that traditional definitions of bioequivalence used in the generic drug industry do not (or may not)...
Early Stage Drug Discovery 2004: Combi-chem & High Throughput Screening Revisited
Published: June 1, 2004 | Price: $2,995.00 – $5,990.00
Ten years ago, high throughput screening (HTS) was being touted as the answer to improving productivity in drug discovery. If screening thousands of compounds a week was good, screening hundreds of thousands would be even better. This led to the boom in Ultra HTS (UHTS), manufacturing-scale systems, and high-speed automation. Today, reality has begun to creep in: HTS and UHTS have not lived up to their hype. R&D productivity is not improving, in fact it may be declining. In the...
U.S. Market for Molecular Diagnostics, 2nd Edition
Published: May 1, 2004 | Price: $3,500.00 – $7,000.00
Molecular diagnostics are seen as being a major breakthrough in medical science. While the technology itself has broad applications to such areas as agricultural bioterrorism and environmental science, medical and medical research applications have provided the primary focus. As a result, great things have been predicted for the development and use of new therapeutics based on molecular testing approaches. The primary molecular diagnostics approaches are based on two major database sciences (genomics and proteomics) and their relationship to disease and...
The U.S. Market for Interventional Radiology Products
Published: April 1, 2004 | Price: $3,500.00 – $7,000.00
Changing demographics are spurring dynamic growth in the interventional radiology market. The angioplasty balloon, coronary stent, vascular closure, and other associated equipment markets will experience healthy growth over the next 5 years. Persons over the age of 65 will be a major segment of the population in coming years. Chronic diseases and unhealthy habits such as smoking, lack of exercise, and poor diet are resulting in an epidemic of obesity and concomitant cardiac conditions. These factors and others will drive...