Sentences with phrase «u.s. health industry»

The U.S. health industry has been relatively slow to adopt biosimilars due to a combination of complex market access tactics employed by branded biologics manufacturers, on - going patent litigation, lack of interchangeability, and a general lack of awareness and acceptance of biosimilars.

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In a recent U.S. consumer survey, Jefferies analysts found that «health concerns, particularly around artificial sweeteners continue to plague the U.S. diet carbonated soft drinks industry.»

«The U.S. healthcare industry has been and continues to be the most inefficient industry on the planet,» says Dean Stephens, CEO of health - tech company Healthline, a health - information site with millions of monthly visitors.

The U.S. military, the health care system, and businesses that are expanding overseas are the industry's best customers.

U.S. employees: 1,186 Industry: Health Care Major locations in N.Y. area: Purchase; White Plains; Yonkers; Rye; New Rochelle; Scarsdale; Stamford, Conn.; Greenwich, Conn..

A 2014 study from S&P concluded that the ACA's legacy may ultimately be «recognized as the starting point of the reconstruction of the U.S. health care benefit industry and a catalyst for how companies provide health care insurance for their employees.»

It's not technology or regulation or any complex system that is blocking more aggressive drug development in the almost half a trillion - dollar U.S. pharmaceutical industry, health executives in the room seemed to agree.

«Investors I know are afraid to invest in the U.S. in job - creating industries,» he said in a «Squawk Box» interview, «because they don't know how punitive the regulations will be, how costly these health - care mandates are going to be.»

Under Armour, founded by Kevin Plank in 1996, recently overtook Adidas to become the second largest sportswear company in the U.S. Plank told Inc. last year that he wanted to revolutionize the sports apparel industry by creating clothing with health monitoring apps built right in.

The independent senator's health - care legislation would effectively abolish the insurance industry and cover every adult U.S. resident.

He also says U.S. health - care reform could be a boon to the industry.

In November, TSheets polled 1,000 U.S. employees in a range of industries, including health care, retail, and construction, where monitoring is most prevalent.

Second, while the health care industry accounts for a large part of the U.S. economy, labor productivity within the space has been declining by 0.6 percent annually for the last two decades.

Contractors in the U.S. commercial construction industry report ongoing optimism about the current state and forward - looking health of the sector.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- U.S. Food and Drug Administration chief, Scott Gottlieb, criticized pharmacy benefit managers, health insurers and drugmakers on Wednesday for «Kabuki drug - pricing constructs» that profit the industry at the expense of consumers.

Industry titans Amazon (AMZN), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), and Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A, BRK.B) are working together to address rising health care costs in the U.S. for their employees.

Building on the success of last year, HealthKick 2015 will give up to 45 health ventures the chance to pitch cutting - edge health technologies and products to a 300 - person audience of leading Canadian and U.S. venture capitalists, investors, entrepreneurs, c - suite leaders and industry partners.

Many investors pay attention to this metric as an indicator of industry health in the very influential New York region of the U.S..

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) released its midyear 2017 music industry revenue report earlier this week, sharing numerous statistics regarding the health of the U.S. music iIndustry Association of America (RIAA) released its midyear 2017 music industry revenue report earlier this week, sharing numerous statistics regarding the health of the U.S. music iindustry revenue report earlier this week, sharing numerous statistics regarding the health of the U.S. music industryindustry.

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Given the tight operating environment for restaurants throughout the U.S., it comes as no surprise that many of the national chains continue to struggle to post consistently positive same - store sales, long considered another indicator of industry health.

«IDFA's members are committed to ensuring that members of Congress understand the importance of these provisions to the nearly 3 million Americans in jobs supported by the dairy industry and to the overall health of the U.S. economy.»

The Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy's Health & Wellness section provides relevant information and resources to help the dairy industry communicate dairy's healthy messages.

The Idaho Potato Commission appreciates the work of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal Plant Health and Inspection Service, other industry organizations and the Idaho State Department of Agriculture, who assisted in reopening the market, Muir said.

As the voice of the flexible packaging industry, FPA works with regulators at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration and other U.S. regulatory agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission and Food and Drug Administration to share industry positions and minimize regulatory burden on the flexible packaging industry.

«BPA has been used in the U.S. since the 1950s, but because of a growing concern from consumers regarding its safety, the chemical was phased out of use by the industry,» says Dr. Whitney Christian, a health scientist for Cardno ChemRisk.

Although only 3 percent of the U.S. health clubs are operated by municipalities, private industry sees this as a growing conflict, with the Chicago suburbs as a key battleground.

The Office on Women's Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services supports nursing moms at work by offering «Employer Solutions,» an online resource which provides businesses with cost - effective tips and solutions that support nursing moms in any industry setting.

HELENA — As Sen. Max Baucus has taken the lead on health - reform legislation in the U.S. Senate, he's also become a leader in something else: Campaign money received from health - and insurance - industry interests.

«The dairy industry in New York and across the U.S. has received decades of unwarranted government support, and the health of our nation has suffered as a result,» wrote Gene Baur, president of Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

«Not unlike many index and pension funds — including the New York State Common Retirement Fund — Sean and Chris are invested in a diverse set of companies, throughout many sectors of the U.S. economy, including energy, health care, and other industries,» she said.

Hyman is the editor of the Annual Review of Neuroscience, President of the International Neuroethics Society, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academies where he serves on the governing Council, the Board of Health Science Policy, and chairs the Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders which brings together industry, government, and academia.

But with such a massive industry across the U.S., scientists are only just starting to get a handle on this continual mingling of various stocks of hogs and viruses, Martha Nelson, a researcher at the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health, explained earlier this month at the fourth European Working Group on Influenza conference in Malta.

In a U.S. survey conducted in 1995 by Eric Campbell, a health policy researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and his colleagues, more than a quarter of life - science faculty members reported receiving support from industry through grant agreements and research contracts.

The CDI algorithm — based on a form of artificial intelligence called machine learning — is at the leading edge of a technological wave starting to hit the U.S. health care industry.

Last December, the Physicians Committee filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services claiming the agencies work in concert with the dairy industry to promote milk products through official dietary guidelines.

Health care spending is equal to about 18 percent of U.S. gross domestic product, and Doyle refrains from asserting that there is no wasted spending in the entire industry.

MB - 003 was developed through a decade - long collaborative effort between private industry and the U.S. government, with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).

The study establishes that «[t] he sugar industry convinced the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) that studies that might persuade people to cut back on sugary foods should not be part of a national plan to fight childhood tooth decay.»

BASF Corporation, General Electric Company, NanoFilm, Ltd., and PPG Industries are the latest chemical companies to provide data to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of an effort to determine whether nanosize particles they use in products pose health hazards.

FDA has not yet released a draft guidance on the matter, but at a hearing yesterday, members of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee's health subcommittee raised questions about the agency's authority to regulate these tests, its motivation for doing so, and the potential impact of such regulations on the diagnostic industry.

WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters)- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday said greenhouse gases from aircraft endanger human health, taking the first step toward regulating emissions from the domestic aviation industry.

Understanding cattle movement patterns as well as the connectivity of the various sectors of the U.S. cattle industry and incorporating these in the models would allow USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Veterinary Services (VS) to develop more effective regulations and control strategies for various animal diseases, including bovine TB.

Other speakers discussed how soy products will help meet U.S. dietary guidelines, with its renewed emphasis on plant - based diets; noted that the soy industry is working on production of novel varieties of high oleic soybean oil low in saturated fat; stressed the marketing of soy as a complete protein, perfectly appropriate as the only protein source for infants, children and adults; promoted the use of «stealth health» as opposed to «muscling» in change to force dietary changes (that is, sneak soy into common food products); speculated on how to remove the allergens from soy; and figure out what to do about the fact that soy doesn't actually taste very good.

With Monsanto's patented genes being inserted into roughly 95 percent of all soybeans and 80 percent of all corn grown in the U.S., the company has also used its wide reach to control the ability of new biotech firms to get wide distribution for their products, including big players in the food industry which have made an entire country falsely believe that these are health foods.

A trailblazer in the $ 32 billion U.S. dietary supplements industry, Life Extension has a long history of offering prescient health guidance to American consumers, often years ahead of the mainstream medical establishment.

Fed Up (Director: Stephanie Soechtig)-- Fed Up blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30 - year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public, resulting in one of the largest health epidemics in history.

The Maritime Administration remains committed to maintaining the health of the U.S. Merchant Marine and creating opportunities for U.S. mariners and our Nation's maritime industry.

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