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Stocks in the Anglo - American drug company Shire rose as much as 26 % on Wednesday, following news that Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical might make an approach.

The American drugs company Abbott applied for permission to sell its HIV test in France in January 1985.

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That provision would have allowed approved drugs that win additional FDA clearances to treat rare disorders — i.e., those that affect 200,000 or fewer Americans — extended market exclusivity in the hopes that biopharma companies would be more compelled to invest in difficult - to - treat spaces that involve costly follow - on clinical trials.

The company took advantage of a number of U.S. programs meant to spur «orphan drugs,» or treatments for the kinds of disorders that afflict less than 200,000 Americans each year.

The company, which has been selling non-core assets, said it had divested the North American rights to the hereditary angioedema drug, Ruconest, to Netherlands - based Pharming Group NV in deal worth up to $ 165 million.

He was also briefly dabbled in smuggling opium to China via his American Fur Company ships — even though China banned the drug about two decades earlier.

Companies as diverse as public - relations firm Edelman, drug maker GlaxoSmithKline and financial - services giant American Express have even instituted policies banning e-mail during evenings, weekends and holidays.

The memory - eating disease, expected to afflict 15 million Americans by 2060 (and tens of millions more around the world as life expectancy increases), has no cure; a new drug for the condition hasn't been approved in well over a decade; initially promising experimental treatments seem to be failing with clockwork regularity; and there's not even a definitive consensus on what, exactly, biopharma companies should focus on while developing Alzheimer's medicines.

The epic inside story of long - term criminal fraud at Ranbaxy, the Indian drug company that makes generic Lipitor for millions of Americans.

But her underlying point isn't totally invalid — the furor over drug price hikes like Mylan's is forcing legislators and private companies alike to finally confront the issue head - on, and highlighting just how difficult the disparate and largely opaque American medical financing system makes it to address these problems in a serious way.

Much of the problem, Miller explained, is that Americans are already shouldering more than their fair share of pharmaceutical companies» costs: While the U.S, accounts for only 4.6 % of the total world population, it makes up about 40 % of the world's drug spending, and the bulk of pharma companies» profits, he said.

Shares of insurer American International Group Inc (AIG.N) and drug distributor Cardinal Health Inc (CAH.N) plunged after the companies reported quarterly results.

The most extreme valuations include mass retailers such as Wal - Mart, Target, Home Depot, Best Buy, Kohls, and Lowe's, and large drug and healthcare companies such as Amgen, Abbott Labs, Baxter, American Home Products, Forest Labs, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, Stryker, United Healthcare, and Tenet.

The FDA's action cuts off a vital supply line for the company, given that the plant reportedly makes about 70 % of the ingredients that Ranbaxy uses to make its U.S. drugs, including the generic version of Lipitor taken by millions of Americans.

That may come as a surprise amid hand - wringing about the spiraling cost of health care, but two new studies, one from research company IMS Health and one from pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, show that the amount of money Americans spend on prescription drugs went down in 2012 for the first time in decades.

By August, the company, which sells thousands of drugs and says it fills one in every 13 American prescriptions, was making mea culpas and renewing its promise to «do what's right, not what's easy,» as the company's mission statement goes.

Now Amazon's moves to enter the health care industry have led two major US companies to make one of the biggest deals of the year, signaling major changes to come in the way Americans buy drugs and otherwise manage their health.

Did you report on Obama's backroom deals with drug and insurance companies to sell out Americans healthcare?

Apostle L. Tom Perry was director of American Stores Co. (which operated Skaggs Drugs and Alpha Beta supermarkets), of ZCMI, of Zion's First National Bank, and of Jewel Companies, Inc. (Chicago), and trustee of LDS Social Services and of Nauvoo Restoration.

When I think about the millions of Americans who can not afford basic healthcare while insurance and drug companies announce record profits, I worry.

These large gaps are causing some experts who worry about whether or not American kids are being overmedicated seek to show that several factors are at play — parents looking for fast solutions, medication becoming more normal for people's problems, different parenting styles, the prominence of drug companies and much more.

Today, for instance, I can only find five ad campaigns running: one for drug company Novartus, one for a prescription benefit plan (also running in the Post's political section), a CATO Institute ad for a book, an ad from the American Council of Life Insurers and an Environmental Defense ad on global warming.

Carolyn also had the courage of her convictions from the very start in supporting the historic health care reform legislation which will expand coverage for 32 million Americans, make prescription drugs more affordable for seniors, and stop insurance companies from denying health care due to consumers» pre-existing conditions.

It was all purportedly part of an ambitious scam to get millions of Americans addicted to opioid painkillers, in order to line the drug companies» pockets.

Some of these included enormous tax breaks encouraging American companies, particularly drug companies, to aid an economy on the island.

The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has said that there needs to be a thorough assessment of whether a takeover of the British drug company, AstraZeneca, by its American rival, Pfizer, is in the country's national interest.

In a new twist of a historic tragedy, 13 Americans who say they are survivors of thalidomide are suing four companies for producing and distributing the notorious drug.

Blood transfusions used for this purpose do not require approval by the US Food and Drug Administration, and some American companies are already charging hefty fees for transfusions of blood from young people.

Contrary to my paranoid suspicions, Mignot's study was funded not by drug companies but by two upstanding behemoths of American philanthropy, the Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute and the McKnight Foundation.

Hundreds of American women are lining up to join a lawsuit against Wyeth - Ayerst, a drugs company that markets an implantable contraceptive, called Norplant.

An American who buys golf clubs abroad and doesn't want to declare them can send them via a company that packs them in a shipping container, which then slips them into port without ever being seen by customs agents; the ability of drug dealers to bypass even the most elaborate border controls is a well - known problem.

«If it works, I'll be staggered,» says Drummond Rennie, a physician and health policy expert at the University of California, San Francisco, and deputy editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, of the drug - company registries.

They're looking at the same types of pharmacological targets that maybe only used to be pursued at a drug company in the past,» says Philip Mayer, president of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists in Arlington, Virginia.

One nation, Venezuela, has already begun legal action against American pharmaceuticals companies to restrict their access to native plants and animals that could provide a source for new drugs, on the grounds that the companies will not be obliged to pay for their use.

However, since a diet can not be patented, mainstream medicine has instead focused on pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines to combat diseases like Alzheimer's, as such drugs are seen as a financial windfall for pharmaceutical companies, with so many Americans in the «Baby Boomer» age group entering into their senior years.

Look at who sits in the board of the American Medical Association... the dairy council, the sugar council, drug companies, the beef cattleman association.

Doubly the outsider in the WASP Ivy League, Ginsberg stumbles toward self - discovery in the company of the campus eccentrics, starting with Carr, who declaims Henry Miller from a table in the college library; he introduces Ginsberg to Burroughs, scion of wealth with access to a pharmacy of mood - altering drugs; and finally to Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston), the all - American boy with a mad passion to burn like a Roman candle.

The first extended «action» seen in the film (and also in the American trailer, above) tracks ACT UP as they splatter blood around a drug company they think is slow - rolling anti-HIV research.

Breaking down the monolithic business into its individual industries - the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, drug manufacturers - that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal tells the story of the history of American medicine as never before.

It's important to mention that all companies producing pet food have to establish formulas to meet the requirements of Food and Drug Administration, (FDA) and the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO).

«Swift passage of this bill will stop dictators, terrorists and drug traffickers from being able to legally hide their identities and their dirty money behind anonymously - owned American companies.

Earlier this month, the Journal of the American Medical Association announced a crackdown on researchers who do not disclose drug company ties related to their research.

«With over $ 396 million in estimated U.S. retail sales, American companies making hemp products have no choice but to import their raw materials because our farmers continue to fear they will be prosecuted for growing hemp, due to an out of date federal «Reefer Madness» policy which confuses non-drug industrial hemp with drug varieties of Cannabis,» adds Bronner.

Some of the largest pharmaceutical drug companies and medical device manufacturers are responsible for major health problems plaguing American citizens.

Evidence developed by American Home Products Corporation in the litigation over the diet drug «Fen - Phen» showed that the company marketed the drug knowing...

President Donald Trump's announcement that he would not force drug companies to lower prices for older Americans marked at least the fourth populist economic promise he has abandoned since taking office.

He describes a lecture that he gave to about two thousand members of the American Medical Association during which he asked the physicians whether they felt that their medical judgments were affected by conflicts of interests with their hospital, drug manufacturers, insurance companies, medical device manufacturers or pharmaceutical sales representatives.

Global Pharmacy Canada («Global»), which used the Internet to market and sell generic prescription drugs to Americans, marketed itself as a Canadian company and had a call centre which took customer orders and processed payments in Mississauga, Ontario, within the jurisdiction of the Ontario College of Pharmacists.

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