Healthy Skepticism Library item: 14815

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Publication type: media release

Sales Through Retail Pharmacies (Twelve months to October 2008*)
2008 Dec
http://www.imshealth.com/deployedfiles/imshealth/Global/Content/StaticFile/Top_Line_Data/Retail_Drug_Monitor_December_2008.pdf

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NORTH AMERICA $225.5 billion up 1%
U.S.A. $208.4 billion up 1%
CANADA $17.0 billion up 6%
EUROPE (TOP 5) $116.4 billion up 2%
GERMANY $35.7 billion up 4%
FRANCE $31.1 billion up 1%
UK $16.4 billion down 2%
ITALY $17.5 billion up 1%
SPAIN $15.5 billion up 5%
JAPAN (including hospitals) $66.4 billion up 4%
LATIN AMERICA (TOP 3) $24.7 billion up 10%
BRAZIL $12.7 billion up 11%
MEXICO $8.8 billion up 3%
ARGENTINA $3.1 billion up 23%
AUSTRALIA/NZ $8.1 billion up 11%
The top 5 therapy classes at ATC3 level in the 12 months to October 2008
were:
1. C10A – Cholesterol & trigly. regulators
2. A2B – Antiulcerants
3. N6A – Antidepressants & mood stabilisers
4. N5A – Antipsychotics
5. N3A – Anti-epileptics
The top 5 products in the 12 months to October 2008 were:
1. Lipitor
2. Plavix
3. Nexium
4. Seretide/Advair
5. Enbrel
The top 5 corporations in the 12 months to October 2008 were:
1. Pfizer
2. GlaxoSmithKline
3. AstraZeneca
4. Novartis
5. Sanofi-Aventis