Top pharmaceutical companies

[Quickening]

The following is a list of the 50 largest pharmaceutical and biotech companies ranked by healthcare revenue as of 2008[update] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_pharmaceutical_companies&action=edit).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pharmaceutical_companies

:LMAO: The vaccine manufacturers are right up there at the top.

This is a list of the world's largest public and private businesses by gross revenues. The list is limited to companies with annual revenues exceeding 40 billion U.S. dollars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_largest_companies

This is the Fortune 500 List for 2009;

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2009/full_list/

Now I wonder which of those own what. That is one thing I found when tracking the money in media sources that report medical news especially if said medical news is bullshit - that there is an incrinate network of ownership and influence passed down via the hierarchy and thus a lot of invested, biased interest and info.

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

I see Pfizer (148) Bayer Ag (151) GSK (157) , Novartis(185) and Sanofi-Aventis (180) make the second list... Notice how drug companies are all called "Health Care"?

This list makes no sense to me, because if you draw a circle, put a line down half, Pfizer = half of all drug companies, and the rest cram into the other half. Why is Pfizer so low on the list then?

and the only company that makes Fortune 100 with a medical interest is 3M?

Hmmm... You're right. Who owns the drug companies?

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

Who can tell? The attached does, but doesn't....