Sentences with phrase «while drug companies»

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While drug companies would love you to believe that their prenatal vitamin is the only thing that will really work, most prenatal vitamins will work for most women, with a few exceptions.

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While the tax bill has been promoted by Republicans as a job creator, the reality is that drug companies are more likely to return the money to shareholders, or use it to make acquisitions.

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.

Brendan Kennedy, the cofounder of Privateer Holdings, which owns various marijuana companies like Marley Natural and Canadian pharmaceutical - grade cannabis producer Tilray, says his companies are expanding abroad while the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Food and Drug Administration debate whether or not to treat the plant as a medicine or keep it in the same category as heroin.

Cardinal Health agreed to pay $ 20 million to the state and issued this statement: «While the company denies the state's allegations, Cardinal Health recognizes that the epidemic of prescription drug abuse is a multifaceted problem driven by addiction and demand.»

While Kallyope hasn't given too many specifics about its drug programs, the company's initial focus will be in metabolic conditions, like obesity, as well as neurologic conditions like Parkinson's disease.

From growing up in poverty amid gangs and drug dealers, and struggling in school, Myles Kovacs shares his incredible story of ingenuity while overcoming adversity and creating a multi-million dollar publishing company.

The company has responded with statements saying that it's not as dependent on drug price increases as critics have claimed; it has also pointed out that while attention has focused on changes in list prices for drugs, those prices don't reflect the actual cost for insurers, governments and other group purchasers, which typically receive discounts that aren't publicly disclosed.

Walmsley has been in place for around a year, but has already replaced nearly half of GSK's top executive team and has made sweeping changes in its R&D team, while shutting down many of its clinical drug trials in an effort to narrow the company's portfolio.

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.

Companies like U.S. biotech giant Gilead and the U.K.'s GlaxoSmithKline (the majority stakeholder in global HIV partnership ViiV Healthcare) have developed drugs that drastically lower the chance of HIV infection — or which simply lower the number of drugs you have to take to treat it, consequently curbing the risk of toxic side effects while simplifying medical regimens.

While several of the present CEOs responded optimistically to the meeting — praising the deregulation and tax reduction components in particular — and many of their companies» shares rose on hopes that Trump won't be as antagonistic toward drug makers as his recent comments that they're «getting away with murder» on prices would suggest, don't count on the wish list to come true.

Vincent Ramos, the CEO of the company, along with four associates were accused on Thursday by the Department of Justice (DOJ) of «knowingly and intentionally conspiring with criminal organizations by providing them with the technological tools to evade law enforcement and obstruct justice while committing transnational drug trafficking.»

Both companies have since rolled back their price increases, and experts say that while drug prices will continue to rise the practice of hiking prices purely for profit may be on the wane.

And despite the fact that Mylan raised EpiPen prices roughly 30 % in 2015 while prescription volume also grew 7 %, the company's revenue on the drug actually fell slightly, as the other players took even bigger cuts, according to Raffat.

Numerous biopharma companies are developing biosimilar products while simultaneously attempting to fend off biosimilar competition that could leech sales from their own drugs.

While Yervoy brought in $ 960 million in sales in 2013 (an enormous figure for a two - year - old drug with a small patient population), the company currently has more than 35 ongoing clinical trials investigating another drug that disengages the immune system's brakes: the much - awaited nivolumab, which was also from the Medarex portfolio.

While Ebola spread, companies ranging from the $ 40 billion British pharma giant GSK to nine - employee startup Mapp Biopharmaceutical all worked quickly to develop drugs to combat it, though no one is yet to create a proven antidote.

He argued the drug companies spent millions of dollars to promote the drugs for profit while denying or trivializing their potential addictive qualities.

While Marathon asserts that its list price is reasonable for treating such a devastating condition, it's unclear whether or not insurance companies will be eager to cover the drug for Duchenne patients.

While it remains to be seen whether Amazon decides to get into the prescription - drug business, the company could stand to put a lot of pressure on pharmacy businesses including Walmart's.

While Tesaro is remaining publicly coy for now, a buyout has always been in the cards as big pharma companies continue to snap up biotechs that have already done drug development legwork for them.

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.

After years of buying up companies then raising the prices of their drugs — a strategy that rapidly amplified Valeant's revenue and stock price — Valeant is now struggling to grow by other means, while dealing with the consequences of its previous actions.

Consumers might see a benefit if the companies could develop a blueprint for curbing the surge in healthcare and drug costs while maintaining or enhancing patient care, a scenario that government and the industry so far have struggled to achieve.

While the companies said they want to lower costs, CVS also makes money on rebates from drug makers and on filling prescriptions through its pharmacies.

While terms like «patent protection» and «public domain» were clearly part of the IPR debate, it also stretched to the cost of drugs and the availability of medicines, encompassing terms like «health advocates» and «pharmaceutical companies.»

In addition, the company did a good job protecting its top - selling drug, Remicade, from biosimilar competition while also enjoying strong sales growth for products like Darzalex and Stelara.

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

While the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did not require approval of cryotherapy because it is a non-invasive procedure, the company believes that additional studies can help business with the added confirmation and explanation of benefits, as well as increase exposure of cryotherapy to the mainstream.

Jeff left the company in 2003 due to missed work commitments and drug problems, while Matt continued until 2005 when he was released from the company.

He'd explained how only small amounts of a drug pass into your breast milk, and how it's cheaper for drug companies to say, «Don't take while breastfeeding» rather than do trials to prove the drugs are compatible with breastfeeding.

While food companies are required to follow label regulations from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Federal Trade Commission oversees food advertising and marketing, it can be confusing to make healthy choices without understanding the definitions of terms in those regulations.

«For example; McCain and Palin claimed the donars are largely unknown for Obama, while they have taken campaign money for years from big donors such as Freddie and Fannie, AIG, Oil companies, Drug companies etc.,»

ALBANY — New York will require insurance companies to provide improved coverage for heroin addiction recovery while stiffening some criminal penalties for sale of the drug under a wide - ranging effort agreed to by state leaders Wednesday.

offers a useful summary of the effects of commonly - abused drugs, while making it clear that seafarers may be subject to testing for drugs under individual company policies..

While Cortex's drugs boost the strength of neural transmissions, another company, Helicon Therapeutics of San Diego, says it can manipulate the underlying biochemistry of memory formation.

And although the document is attracting praise from many industry and research advocacy groups, some are concerned that it neglects basic research funding while extending overly generous terms to drug companies.

Companies in the partnership supply compound libraries and drug discovery expertise to the effort, while academic partners contribute knowledge about the disease and facilities for screens and assays.

While the commercial potential might not be immediate, Duncan says the collaboration could yield concrete rewards for the companies, such as new R&D avenues from identification of novel drug targets.

Other analysts have also noted that while research and development spending by pharmaceutical companies has increased dramatically, the number of new drug approvals has remained flat.»

While individual researchers and pharmaceutical companies are studying and developing both types of drugs, a major initiative is needed to understand how both drug types might best work together, Sharma and Allison note.

And even that amount may be low: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the National Institute of Standards and Technology pay in the mid - to upper $ 40s, representatives noted, while Eli Lilly's Jean Labus said the Indiana drug company starts its life science postdocs at $ 42,000.

«Prescription drugs are seen as blessed by a trusted institution, the FDA, while increasingly aggressive advertising by drug companies simultaneously floods parents and children with messages that these substances are safe, popular, and beneficial.»

And many companies began to crumble: While gene silencing was simple in worms, mammals proved to be far more complex — and safe drug delivery emerged as a major problem.

But while LDDN focuses on the earliest stages of drug development — identifying compounds and confirming their biological activity — PharmaStart may take the process much further before signing on with a drug company.

While Eileen was deteriorating, Malaspina earned a master's in zoology, took a job at a drug company, and drifted into research on substances that could alter brain chemistry.

That has not only caused large pharma companies to back away from early - stage drug discovery, but it has forced them to pursue primarily large - market blockbuster drugs for common conditions such as heart disease and cancer, while avoiding medicines for rare diseases.

The company plans to develop and commercialize its innovative mRNA drugs — initially for rare diseases and oncology — while partnering drug candidates in other therapeutic areas in order to rapidly deliver this innovation to patients.