Sentences with phrase «amgen over the drug»

Lately pharma execs have been taking yet another volley of criticism over drug - pricing practices from Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio — and plenty of others — without offering much in the way of a defense.

It aggressively ratcheted up spending to spread its influence in Washington and to have a louder say in the debates over drug prices.

The Zetas started to consolidate power and control over drug trafficking operations in Nuevo Laredo under the leadership of Heriberto Lazcano, alias «El Lazca» or «Z3.»

Investors couldn't chalk up the selloff to the concerns over drug - price gouging that have depressed other pharmaceutical shares: Zoetis zts, after all, makes medications for dogs — whose health care costs have yet to inspire Senate investigations.

Cost - cutting by health insurers and concerns over drug pricing have made CVS's pharma - benefits unit seem like a liability to some investors; and in the head - to - head fight, Walgreens has grabbed some market share.

The copycat therapy, Erelzi, won't be able to hit the market for at least another year thanks to the ongoing patent spat between Novartis and Amgen over the drug (Amgen claims that Enbrel has IP protection through 2029).

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.

Pfizer also came under fire over drug price increases including a record $ 107 million fine by U.K. regulators for hiking an epilepsy treatment's price by 2,600 %.

With recent uproar over drug price hikes by Valeant (vrx), Mylan (myl) and Martin Shkreli, healthcare experts have reached a consensus: The system as we know it is officially broken.

Since Marathon won an approval to treat a condition that afflicts fewer than 200,000 Americans per year and has a dearth of treatment options (rather than trying to become an also - ran in the saturated steroid therapy field), it has carte blanche over the drug's pricing.

And it's already in the hot seat over its drug price hikes, so it can't raise prices much further without risking another scandal.

• Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne opens door to taking action on Ford • Mayor Ford threatens legal action against former staffers over drug and prostitution claims

Two BC NDP candidates resigned over their drug use, while BC NDP candidate Julian West resigned for getting naked in front of minors and a Liberal candidate in Winnipeg was cut loose over her 9 - 11 conspiracy theories.

Separately, state prosecutors in New York and Massachusetts are investigating Valeant over its drug pricing and programs that provide financial assistance to help patients cover out - of - pocket expenses for their medications.

But the company was hit by regulatory and political scrutiny in the past year over its drug pricing and its relationship to a mail - order pharmacy, and its stock took a beating.

Bayer said in a statement that it doesn't control the cost for patients at the pharmacy, because copays are determined by insurers and pharmacy - benefit managers — an argument that pharmaceuticals companies have long made when facing criticism over drug prices.

Second, the group was a target during the most recent presidential election over drug - pricing issues.

Put simply, I believe it's frankly hard to justify holding most individual biotech stocks for especially long periods of time because of the rather limited lifespan of their products, and the political blowback over drug prices in the United States.

The concerns over that drug have since been addressed, but the stock still has not recovered, and is still almost 30 % below its peak of $ 80 the month before that disappointment.

Lets talk about psychotropic drugs and our over drugged children by the «psych / pharma» complex that has become tyrannical in it's quest for money, stop demonizing guns.

Legalization, however, means that the government would maintain regulatory control over drug sales, possibly through state clinics or stores.

Police investigate whether four people arrested over a drug bust in the state's central west have links to the Italian mafia.

Jan 04,2016... Major League Baseball, once chided by Congress and fought by the players» association over its drug -...

The baby was taken from his biological parents over drug concerns, but placed in a nearly fatal situation with a foster mom who was clearly in over her head.

One of the people Feilding started working with was professor David Nutt, of Imperial University, whose own experience of clashing with authorities over drug research came to a head in 2009 when he was sacked as chair of the Advisory Council of the Misuse of Drugs for ranking drugs according to the harm they do the user and society.

Combined with outrage over individual incidents, is growing concern over drug crime and violence.

The home secretary, Alan Johnson, has placed the future of the expert body at the centre of the row over drugs policy in doubt by ordering a swift review of how it operates, the Guardian has learned.

Gordon Brown reportedly reclassified cannabis as a Class B narcotic in a bid to win favour with Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre and the reaction of tabloids has been a dominant force in the minds of politicians when they refrain from having the debate over drug policy.

Conducted by Reach and drawing on experts from education and business, the report argues the government and black communities need to promote mainstream careers over drug crime and gang violence.

The MP added that, although the committee «had not reached a settled view» on the decriminalisation of drugs, its members agreed Britain was «fighting a losing battle over drugs policy».

And long - simmering tensions between two major British medical journals recently erupted into an all - out editorial war over the drugs.

Faced with controversies over drug warnings and recalls, the drug agency tries to revamp itself.

Recent hullabaloo over drug companies paying for ghostwritten medical journal articles — that doctors later sign their names to — has raised questions about a wealth of hidden financial arrangements in the medical research community.

«Our collaboration with scientists at Charles Gerhardt Institute was important to the success of this two - photon activated technique,» said Tamanoi, «which provides controls over drug delivery to allow local treatment that dramatically reduces side effects.»

VanderBeek and his colleagues» findings come after years of tension between eye doctors and Avastin's maker Genentech over the drug's ophthalmic use.

By 2000, pharmaceutical pipelines were filled with «me too» drugs that offered low risk and a quick route to approval, but only marginal improvement over drugs already available.

Since 1996, major changes in infectious diseases have occurred, such as the introduction of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) / AIDS and West Nile virus into the United States, advances in HIV / AIDS treatment, changes in vaccine perceptions, and increased concern over drug - resistant pathogens.

According to their calculations, drug - sensitive HIV strains tend to dominate over drug - resistant strains when the effective drug concentration is low.

The study, which will involve 16 000 women, could be under way before a similar trial in Britain, which has become entangled in a controversy over the drug's safety.

The DSM - 5 proposals have also attracted criticism from psychologists, who tend to favour counselling over the drug treatments that dominate modern psychiatry.

Janda said a heroin vaccine has many advantages over drug substitution therapies — fewer side effects, no dependence on other opioids, lower overdose risk — but the biggest advantage may be the cost.

Beldner believes the findings may lay to rest the debate over this drug's usefulness in osteoarthritis.

So if we're choosing marijuana over these drugs that kill a lot, I will always choose the drug that doesn't have the profile of killing people, right?

I have also found a local internist who is vegan and promotes diet over drugs.

Today Dr. Ornish and other health teams continue efforts towards national awareness and collaboration with medical professionals to promote the evidence supporting lifestyle medicine and its success over drugs and surgery in treating the underlying causes of chronic diseases.

Berberine can be just as effective as metformin, for those who can not take the drug due to muscle pain or prefer the natural supplement over the drug.

This is called Functional Medicine and natural substances will be preferred over drugs.

A pivotal real - life incident for Baker — his teeth being beat in by a gang of men in 1966, probably over a drug beef, which temporarily ruined his embouchure — is taken out of context and simplified as an inciting incident for Baker's career re-ascension, after a requisite period of self - examination and struggle.

As he reigned over the drug world federal agents hunted the drugs he shipped, the men he «employed», and with little luck, they hunted the man himself.

Whether it's Jan Rader, the first responder on the scene trying to resuscitate an overdose victim, or Judge Patricia Keller presiding over Drug Court, McMillion takes us on the scene in her powerful and extremely haunting documentary short.