Market research reports that you can buy provide a full range of data about developing drugs and medical devices that can start the development of a medical product. If you are entering a new biomedical market, reports from the publishers below will usually help you gain an overview and understand the details of the markets you are serving.

The reports discuss a wide range of disease categories and biomedical markets throughout the world, broken down by disease stage, region, and country. They investigate the benefits and issues related to specific drugs and medical devices. The prices of the reports range from hundreds of dollars on the low side to thousands of dollars. A buyer needs to carefully consider the appropriateness of the content of a report and the age of the report.

To evaluate the place of a new product in a disease category or geographical market, you can buy several reports and use other references to write a new, up-to-date report that includes new data for an upcoming but unreleased product. Add the projections for the new product to the tables of projections for the existing products.

If a researcher has an adequate budget, the researcher can use the web sites to access most of the world's current marketing or development data about drugs and medical devices. Various publishers offer memberships that allow researchers to browse and download all of their reports online. In some cases, you can ask the publisher to make a new, up dated edition of a report.

These are some of the outstanding sources of biomedical data and market research reports:

Market Research.com
http://www.marketresearch.com
There are a large number of publishers of market research reports about drugs and medical devices. You can pre-view thousands of reports from many publishers under the "Life Science" category at Market Research.com

IMS America/IMS Global
http://www.ims-global.com/
The original source of the "National Disease and Therapeutic Drug Index," IMS Global and IMS America survey hospitals and clinics to estimate the usage of drugs and medical devices. Generally, IMS provides up-to-date databases, but not finished reports. For a fee of several thousand dollars you can request annual estimates or estimates in other time frames that show how domestic or international hospitals or clinics are using a drug or medical device.

Decision Resources
http://www.decisionresources.com
Decision Resources publishes a wide range of detailed biomedical market research reports with interactive databases about drugs and medical devices. The excellent reports are usually up to 200 pages long, and they review disease, clinical, development, research, and market issues. They evaluate products in the research pipeline and products that are available around the world. The reports will help marketing executives and product development engineers, but their language and content are at a level that all personnel can understand. Try to select the best reports. Look for report editions that are appropriate for your
product, complete, and up-to-date.

Frost & Sullivan
http://www.frost.com
Frost & Sullivan publishes surveys and reports about drugs and medical devices. The Frost & Sullivan web site allows you to review summaries or overviews of the sections of a report. You can also review the table of contents.

DataMonitor
http://www.datamonitor.com
Based in the United Kingdom, DataMonitor publishes detailed marketing and development reports and interactive databases for medical device and drug markets, among other subjects. The quality of DataMonitor's reports rival the reports from the other publishers.

Pharmametrics
http://www.pharmiq.com
Pharmametrics, a company based in Germany, publishes reports about developing drugs in selected disease categories.

VisionGain
http://www.visiongainintelligence.com
Among other subjects, VisionGain publishes reports for the pharmaceutical industry about developing drugs for selected disease categories.