Her mother was a senior vice president managing pharmaceutical accounts at Ruder Finn, the public relations firm in Manhattan.
The bride, 31, is a senior manager at Forest Laboratories, a New York pharmaceutical company; she creates and leads marketing and training programs for pharmaceutical account managers.
Within Bayer, pharmaceuticals accounts for just 15percentt of overall sales.
Pharmaceuticals account for only 5 percent of all cargo thefts, according to FreightWatch International, a freight security company.
In the first quarter, pharmaceuticals accounted for 43percentt of the company's $13 billion in sales, while medical devices and diagnostics accounted for 39percentt of sales.
This may seem unfair, when pharmaceuticals account for less than a fifth of their countries' health-care costs, and misguided, because innovation will wither if not rewarded.
Two mega-deals in mobile phones and pharmaceuticals accounted for about half this outflow Vodafone's purchase of AirTouch Communications, an American company, and Zeneca's merger with Astra, a Swedish drugs firm.
By Schroer's reckoning, pharmaceuticals account for 68% of the sector by market capitalization, services for 12%, medical devices for 12% and biotechnology for 8%.
Carper insisted that hospitals accounted for 30-40% of healthcare costs, and were taking only $150 billion in reductions while the pharmaceuticals accounted for 10% of costs and were being asked for $180 billion in reductions.
In total, conventional pharmaceuticals accounted for 58.3% of all medications prescribed.
Critical incidents related to equipment, clinical practice, and pharmaceuticals account for more than two thirds of events reported.
