Big Pharma

Or big phar·ma

[big fahr-muh]

noun

1. pharmaceutical companies considered collectively, especially with reference to their political and commercial influence.

   The article attributes rising medical costs to private healthcare, Big Pharma, and insurance.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Big Pharma¹

First recorded in 1990–95

Example Sentences

Lilly has long been a Wall Street darling, commanding a far higher earnings multiple than its Big Pharma peers.

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For Big Pharma, the triumph of developing a new lifesaving blockbuster drug that generates billions in revenue is inevitably followed by the reality that drug patents have an expiration date.

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There are more than 200 mRNA clinical trials being conducted by both big pharma firms and new start-ups around the world, many of them in the United States, China and Japan, Pichon said.

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The facilities are a quietly purring economic engine, injecting billions in investment, employment and anchoring the tech multinationals which, coupled with big pharma, fund over half of Ireland's corporate-tax take, according to analysts.

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He has become one of the Make America Healthy Again movement’s foremost advocates on cable-news programs and at White House press conferences, while also working to reassure drug companies wary of Kennedy’s “Big Pharma” rhetoric and worried about a slowdown in agency approvals.

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