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| About the manufacturer of
Prednisolone – Deltasone |
In 1995, this company came into formation by the merger of Upjohn
with Pharmacia AB named, “Pharmacia & Upjohn Incorporated”.
Initially, the main activities of this Group were development,
research, manufacturing and the trade of different pharmaceuticals
and many life saving healthcare products and which divides them into
two segments: The first group comprises of ophthalmology, general
products relating to therapeutics, and hospital commodities
including oncology, and broadened therapeutics comes under
Prescriptive pharmaceutical.
Secondly, the products which are available without prescriptions or
over the counter drugs, product line expansion of many vital drugs
that are not available without a valid prescription including
Prednisolone - Deltasone and also products which treat tobacco
dependency; comes under Consumer health care Website for this
company is http://www.pnu.com. Corporate headquarters of this
company is in Somerset County, New Jersey. (Address: Peapack PEAPACK,
NEW JERSEY 07977; phone number: +1 888 768-5501) This company has
launched very successful medicines like Celebrex in 1999 and
Deltasone - Prednisolone, for the treatment of pain of arthritis and
osteoarthritis, and later the successful development of Prednisolone
- Deltasone led to great development in this field.
Brief history of Phamacia: In 1911, Pharmacia was established in
Stockholm, Sweden. With the name of Pharmacia Fine Chemicals it was
established in Uppsala in 1967; Pharmacia Biotech was named in 1986
after Pharmacia Fine Chemicals prchased LKB-produkter AB; which was
later sold to private interest in 1990s. “Kabi Vitrum” was the first
company with which Pharmacia amalgamate to form Kabi Pharmacia;
which later ruled out. In 1995, American pharmaceutical company
Upjohn joined Pharmacia; they made new headquarters in London.
Uppsala has largest employers outside the public sector and with
over 4000 employees.
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