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AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals

AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals is a drug-making and distribution company established in Sweden and England with the headquarters in London. It was established in 1999 and by 2014 it became the tenths drug-producing company internationally by the volume of marketing of prescription medications. Besides, it occupies the 281 place in the Fortune Global 500 list.

Initially, there were two major companies that merged and resulted in AstraZeneca. Astra AB was the Swedish part of the company, a pharmaceutical company established in 1913. Zeneca Group is a British part of the company that was established as a result of pharmaceutical business separation from the Imperial Chemical Industries concern in 1993.

The company further continued the mergers and acquisitions as AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals to increase its facilities and coverage. The most notable acquisitions are Cambridge Antibody Technology in 2006 and MedImmune in 2007.

The AstraZeneca production portfolio includes products from such therapeutic areas as cardiology, oncology, gastroenterology, mental health, infectious diseases, and many others including their sub-branches. AstraZeneca is listed on the London Stock Exchange. The shares of AstraZeneca are accounted for in the calculation of the FTSE 100 Index. The secondary listing was held on the New York Stock Exchange.

Business overview

The headquarters of the company is in London, UK. The scientific, research and development centers are located in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, Cambridge, Great Britain, and Mölndahl, Sweden. The total number of personnel involved in research and development is about nine thousand people.

In 2016, the company transferred most of the research work from the once-largest research center of the company, Alderley Park, to a new research center in Cambridge, the construction of which the company started in 2015. It is a state-of-art research center with the implementation of all the newest technologies and processes. This center became an embodiment of the company’s main strategic priorities become leaders in science, return to growth, be a great place to work.

Socially responsible policy

AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals continuously proves that socially responsible policy is not just words for the company. It opens worldwide spirometry cabinets for diagnosis of respiratory diseases (social program "Easy to breathe Easy to live!"). The project is aimed at combating the problems of bronchial asthma (BA) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Besides, it initiated a program to fight diabetes type 2 which allows controlling the level of Glycated hemoglobin in the blood during treatment.

The World Mental Health Day initiated by the World Federation for Mental Health and held yearly from 1992 was also highly supported by AstraZeneca.

The company improves access to healthcare and delivers the medicines; services and education to people around the world by customizing its programmers to the communities they serve. This includes adapting the pricing and looking for ways to minimize the costs without compromising the quality and overcoming other barriers to healthcare. To offer affordable prices, it carefully chooses its partners in the emerging markets to cut the costs and represent the values of AstraZeneca without compromises to the quality of medications and treatment. It has special programs for different regions. For instance, currently there are active Young Health Program for adolescents in the Middle East, Healthy Heart Africa focused on prevention of heart diseases, and Healthy Lung Asia focused on asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer in 9 Asian regions.

A special program by AstraZeneca allows people with serious or life-threatening diseases who have tried all existing and approved therapeutic options without any results but are not eligible to take part in the company’s clinical trials to have early access to an AstraZeneca investigational medicinal product.

Although the major revenue to the company is brought by medicines created for wide-spread diseases, it still conducts research and develops so-called orphan drugs, i.e. the medicines designed specifically to treat a rare medical condition (an orphan disease). One of such conditions for which the company had launched the medication is mesothelioma, a type of cancer that develops from the thin layer of tissue that covers many of the internal organs and is mostly associated with the inhalation of asbestos.

Products by AstraZeneca

Currently, the company manufactures and distributes around a hundred of medical drugs developed exclusively by the scientists of the company. It also gave patents for the development of generic medications based on its own research so that people from the developing world have access to the modern medications at affordable prices corresponding to their income levels.

Products by AstraZeneca you can buy from our online drugstore

Currently, we offer you to buy the following drugs made by this pharmaceutical company: Nexium (Esomeprazole) is a medication used for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease, treatment of erosive reflux esophagitis, prophylaxis of erosive reflux esophagitis, peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum, bleeding from a peptic ulcer, gastric ulcer caused by prolonged intake of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, and other conditions associated with hypersecretion of gastric acid. The preparation inhibits the proton pump, an enzyme which is responsible for the production of gastric acid. The medication is sold without a prescription and can be used for long periods of time but you should note that a prolonged use if dangerous with the development of bacteria in the digestive tract as gastric acid is responsible for suppression of their growth and excess replication. You can buy this drug from the section of gastrointestinal medicines of our online drugstore.

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