IRVINE--- Advanced Drug Delivery Technologies Leading Growth in the $25 Billion European Drug Delivery Product Market Through 2013, According to New Analysis from Medtech Insight

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Medtech Insight a division of Windhover Information, an Elsevier Company announces the publication of a new Market and Technology Report detailing the European markets for advanced drug delivery products, entitled “European Markets for Drug Delivery Products and Technologies.”

In less than 25 years, the field of drug delivery has developed from a fledgling pharmaceutical market to a multi-billion dollar global industry. There are an estimated 400 drug delivery companies and 100 medical device companies focused on the design and development of new methods of drug delivery that promise to provide greater safety and efficacy, fewer side effects, improved convenience, patient compliance, and lower healthcare costs than traditional methods. In 2007, the European market for advanced drug delivery products totaled over $25 billion, and over the forecast period covered by this report sales are expected to increase at a compound annual rate of 11.2% from 2007 through 2013, reaching more than $47 billion in the year 2013.

This new 439-page report from Medtech Insight includes an overview of European healthcare markets; an overview of the biomechanics of drug delivery; discussions of drug delivery devices in the oral, transdermal, inhalation, transmucosal, and injectable market segments; and analyses of each of the sales and leading competitors in each of these markets.

Companies whose products and strategies are detailed in this report include 3M Health Care, Inc., AstraZeneca PLC, Baxter International, Inc., B. Braun Melsungen AG, Becton, Dickinson and Company, Biovail Corporation, Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH, Cardinal Health, Inc., Elan Corporation PLC, Fresenius SE, GlaxoSmithKline PLC, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis AG, Noven Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Terumo Europe NV/Terumo Corporation, among many others.

209 exhibits are included in this report, as are company profiles for 15 key players in the European drug delivery market. A full table of contents as well as ordering information for this report can be viewed at www.medtechinsight.com/ReportA351.html.

Medtech Insight, a division of Windhover Information, an Elsevier Company is a leading provider of medical technology business intelligence and market insight to the medical and investment community. The company provides the medical device and healthcare investment industries with accurate, comprehensive and meticulously researched market analyses that incorporate strategic vision and a thorough understanding of competing technologies.

Each carefully researched and validated report contains comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the products, technologies, procedures and competitive landscape that define a given market, including procedure volumes, technology assessment, supplier shares, market forecasts, end-use trends, penetration rates, clinical and cost considerations driving usage, and profiles of key and emerging players. Details and tables of contents for all recently published European and U.S. Market & Technology Reports are available on the company’s website at www.medtechinsight.com/reports.html.

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