Sentences with phrase «drug applications]»

Rather than building more big box stores to sell grocery, health, and beauty products under one roof, Loblaw will be able to use urban - friendly Shoppers locations to offer its President's Choice brand items while the drug stores continue to sell pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.

Brick - and - mortar retailers with loyalty plans have been mining consumer data for years, with Shoppers Drug Mart's Optimum plan and Loblaw's PC Plus program being prime examples.

Because of those fears, pot dispensary operators in the 29 states where the drug is legal, either for medical or recreational purposes, often find themselves nervously handling obscene amounts of cash.

Now, here's a happy story: A combination of better screening, investments in drug research, and better lifestyle choices (including declines in cigarette smoking) may have helped lead to a downtick in the rate of cancer drug deaths.

In October, 10 months into the contract, Schenk asked Express Scripts for all of Meridian's specialty - drug claims.

In 2016, the company's cancer drug franchise contributed 11 percent to the company's sales.

Schenk decided to figure out where Meridian's money was going and why its drug costs were escalating.

But most banks don't see those rules as a shield against charges that could include aiding drug trafficking.

Perhaps no field in the life sciences has been as heartbreaking, from a drug development standpoint, as Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

The drug at the heart of four lawsuits in New Jersey is insulin — «a century - old medicine that for most of its history cost $ 15 or less,» write Barrett and Langreth, but «whose list price has risen more than 270 percent over the past decade.»

[CEO] Richard Pops has got a major medical depression drug and I think it's worth — definitely, because the FDA is going to review it — it's worth a buy.

In terms of startup and deal volume, for instance, two hotshot areas have been medical imaging & diagnostics and drug discovery.

Inclusion in each section depends on the drug's potential medicinal uses and the potential for dependency and abuse, according to the DEA.

That makes Optimum a truly rare thing: a brand - builder that improves the overall Shoppers Drug Mart experience, while adding to the company's short - term bottom line.

In sweltering summer heat, the crowds in Manila also protested alleged extrajudicial killings under President Rodrigo Duterte's drug crackdown.

So in the case of CVS, Meyer and his team first made sure that the company's decision to rebrand was warranted: Leaders wanted to push its image as a more health - focused alternative to other drug stores.

«My parents didn't want to bet my Dad's life on a pinworm drug,» he said.

There are also forums dedicated to policy issues such as drug pricing and medical standards — last year, former Vice President Joe Biden announced a federal Genomic Data Commons to expedite cancer research during a keynote address.

Novelty seeking — getting bored easily and throwing yourself into new pursuits or activities — is often linked to gambling, drug abuse, attention deficit disorder, and leaping out of perfectly good airplanes without a parachute.

Walmart had redoubled its efforts to integrate stores and digital, introducing initiatives such as offering shoppers discounts if they pick up an online order in a store, and introducing express lanes for drug prescription pick - up and merchandise returns.

That means an illegal drug is already one - third the size of a legal industry that benefits from national advertising and a vaunted spot in Canadian culture.

For instance, MOD hires multiple - time felons, people with learning disabilities, and those recently released from drug or alcohol rehabilitation.

House Democrats push for explanation of high MS drug prices.

Neil Woods: In the UK we used to lead the world in drug policy.

Senate Republicans did just that in 2009, when 23 of them — including Mitch McConnell, Lamar Alexander, and John Cornyn, all GOP leaders who count themselves stalwart drug industry allies — backed an importation amendment in an attempt to turn the sector against the entire package and thereby sink it.

«We know that these can be very toxic and have drug interactions,» Austin said, adding that «weight loss supplements are making up a majority of events where people end up in emergency rooms.»

Sysco says he suspected the technology would need to gain FDA approval from the time the company launched in 2005, because it was designing an app that physicians would prescribe like a drug or device.

Marino's draft stock had fallen after a disappointing senior season at Pitt, as well as rumors of recreational drug use, rumors which even led Marino's hometown team the Pittsburgh Steelers to pass on selecting him.

«This surge is very troubling and likely foreshadows an increase of importation, abuse, and overdose deaths in the United States,» Anthony Williams, assistant administrator and chief of operations for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, told the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control on Tuesday.

«When you have a drug company up against a difficult disease that many others have failed to cure, be more skeptical.

Marijuana is still a Schedule I drug and is illegal on the federal level.

The $ 1.1 billion Alphabet - backed Silicon Valley unicorn 23andMe just pulled off a milestone feat: On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said the company could sell its genetic tests and accompanying health risk reports for ten different diseases directly to consumers.

In 2011, Restoration Robotics got approval from the U.S. Federal Drug Administration to begin commercial operations with its Artas System, which uses digital imaging and a robotic arm to help with the hair transplant procedure.

Instead Sessions will allow federal prosecutors in areas where the substance is legal to decide how aggressively to enforce federal drug laws, two sources with knowledge of the matter told the AP ahead of a formal announcement expected Thursday.

It all lends credence to Tehrani's claim that, from the outset 15 years ago, he sought to build a different kind of biotechnology firm — «a truly rational drug development company,» as he puts it.

Why is new drug development so comparatively torpid when app development is so torrid?

The company will now mull its options and discuss the way forward with the Food and Drug Administration.

Revenue from the cancer drug accounted for nearly 15 percent of Merck's total sales, helped by its expanded approval to treat various forms of cancer.

The facility where the investigators had assembled that morning, brandishing an Administrative Inspection Warrant, was a distribution center operated by one of America's largest public companies, the giant drug wholesaler McKesson (mck), which ranks No. 5 on this year's Fortune 500.

The report noted that this drop is due in large part to the growing opioid epidemic in the U.S. — mortality from drug overdoses rose by 21 percent in 2016.

But a nonprofit is making its own hepatitis C combination medication that it says is just as effective as those created by for - profit drug giants.

«When you put these two things together, you've got a novel new drug,» says Steve Gilman, the company's chief scientific officer.

CASIS's mission is to encourage «use of this unparalleled platform for innovation» — and Merck is taking this to heart by experimenting with drug development in the realm of microgravity.

Sessions, during the same drug caucus, went after President Obama for not taking a stand against legalization: «One of our President's great failures, it is obvious to me, is his lax treatment and comments around marijuana,» said Sessions.

Drug policy at the moment is about criminalising people.

Genmab has morphed from a cash - burning operation into a profitable business especially due to the success of blood cancer drug Darzalex, on which it is paid a royalty of 12 to 20 percent on sales of the drug.

One biotech firm, Ossianix, is already hard at work developing a VNAR - based drug - delivery system, in collaboration with the global pharmaceutical company Lundbeck, which focuses on drugs for brain disorders.

But when they broached the idea of developing such a vaccine with drug companies, nearly all of them said, «No, thank you very much, but we're not interested,» recalls Schiller in a Lasker Foundation interview.

Striking advances in hepatitis C drug development over the past five years have made the infectious, liver - wasting viral disease a curable one — if you can afford the drugs.

Trump drug czar nominee withdraws following criticisms over DEA law.