Sentences with phrase «while pharmaceutical drugs»

Because as things stand, animals are being tortured and killed in unspeakable ways, while pharmaceutical drugs remain one of the riskiest substances to put into our bodies, and testing on animals is partly to blame for that.

While pharmaceutical drugs may be necessary in difficult cases, dietary modification and appropriate nutritional supplementation can often eliminate the need.

Not exact matches

By contrast, while the cost of older, branded pharmaceuticals continue to rise and contribute to increased spending, when discounting is considered, prices of these drugs increased, on average, 2.8 % in 2015, the lowest growth rate in years.

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.

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.

Aurora Cannabis was up 2.5 % in early Wednesday trading; the U.K.'s GW Pharmaceuticals, which is vying for the first Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved cannabis - based medicine in the U.S., rose more than 2 %; Canada's MedReleaf spiked 4 % while Aprhia had a more modest 1 % rise.

While exorbitant drug price hikes by Martin Shkreli's Turing Pharmaceuticals and Valeant have sparked outrage in Washington and tanked the stock prices of much of the pharmaceutical sector in the last six months, there's growing evidence that the controversy may be more smoke than fire.

According to the GAO report, 71 percent of all generic injectable cancer drugs sold in 2008 were produced by just three manufacturers, while 91 percent of the market share of injectable nutrients and supplements was held by just three pharmaceutical firms.

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.

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.»

While Donald Trump's tweets can shake up pharmaceutical stocks, history suggests that investors have little to fear from the president's drug pricing rhetoric.

While most of the attention on pharmaceutical prices has been on new drugs for diseases like cancer, hepatitis C and high cholesterol, there is also growing concern about huge price increases on older drugs, some of them generic, that have long been mainstays of treatment.

While many pharmaceutical drugs are available in India, you may prefer to bring the items you're used to.

A pharmaceutical research group is launching a campaign against Cuomo's proposal to control the price of prescription drugs, saying it will do nothing to improve patient access to prescriptions while threatening research and development.

I promptly chose to go into clinical pharmacy — the most exciting application of pharmaceutical knowledge — helping patients in the hospital maximize the effects of the drugs they are prescribed while minimizing the potential side effects.

Rahm says he opted for crowdfunding because public funding and a contribution from a private foundation fell short, while the team wanted to remain independent from the drug's manufacturer, Ferring Pharmaceuticals.

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.

But while insurers stand to save plenty of money if less women got lymphedema after breast cancer, unlike when new cancer drugs hit the market, exercise offers no immediate profit prospects for pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies — and no multi-million dollar advertising campaign advising patients to query their doctors about it.

Technically, while «smart drugs» typically refer to any pharmaceutical (or nutritional substance) that increase brain performance, nootropics must fulfill five criteria defined by the man who coined the term, Dr. Corneliu E. Giurgea:

While the cinema perception may be that college students are using illegal drugs recreationally, I never saw this when I was in school and instead saw rampant off - label use of potentially dangerous but legal pharmaceuticals by students to keep up with demanding academic programs.

While pharmaceutical marketing might make us wonder how we ever survived without prescription drugs, ancient knowledge has made its way back into the conversation.

While it certainly helps with weight loss, cleansing or detoxing is also a valuable and healthy process for those who have undergone heavy pharmaceutical intravenous drugs, or who have been hospitalized.

Many medical conditions can be treated effectively with foods and nutritional supplements, including nutrient IV therapies, while avoiding the complications and side effects which accompany many pharmaceutical drugs.

While sugar alcohols may indeed occur in nature, their usage as sweeteners also suffers from the same problem as many other sweeteners, pharmaceutical drugs and other substances today — one single factor from a natural food item is being isolated from its normal co-constituents and consumed at levels that are difficult to obtain when eating the food item itself.

While it is obvious to want to stop testing anything on animals for animal welfare reasons, testing on animals is part of what makes so many pharmaceutical drugs so dangerous.

While companies must comply with industry standards called Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP's), a 2012 audit found that nearly 70 % of companies audited by the FDA were not in compliance with major issues including failure to test products, the presence of contaminants, non-approved dietary ingredients, and pharmaceutical drugs

While side - effects from pharmaceutical drugs tend to be negative and often dangerous, with natural medicine such as borax therapy these are usually healing reactions with beneficial long - term effects.

While there are plenty of sleep drugs available to treat everything from insomnia to restless legs syndrome, they haven't stopped the pharmaceutical industry from searching for newer, more effective, and more profitable medications.

It centers on a scientist's investigation of a bizarre murder and resurrection in Haiti, while working for a pharmaceutical company that believes an herbal drug may be the key.

While the trend toward treating stressed - out pets with drugs is on the rise, Rescue Remedy is a convenient, safe, all - natural alternative to pharmaceuticals.

What's more, even for patients that are undergoing trilostane therapy for proven cases of Cushings Disease, natural management has the ability to reduce drug doses, thereby saving the client money, while overall increasing the safety of the patient who may end up less reliant on a pharmaceutical solution.

While some pheromone and nutraceutical products marketed for their calming effects can be helpful adjuncts to the treatment of mild anxiety and fear, «moderate to severe anxiety and fear - related conditions are more effectively treated with pharmaceutical drugs in combination with management and behavior modification,» Ballantyne said.

While pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is trying to get the Supreme Court of Canada to take a second look at its recent judgment voiding its patent on Viagra, it's trying to use the same decision to quash a case in the Federal Court involving another generic drug maker.

The men claim that the pharmaceutical giant ««deceived potential AndroGel users by relaying positive information through the press, including testimonials from retired professional athletes» and statistics suggesting a widespread need for the drugs, «while downplaying known adverse and serious health risks,» according to the complaints,» Bloomberg News reports.

Through amendments to both the patent and the food and drug laws, the Act established several practices intended to provide brand - name firms with incentives to innovate while facilitating the marketing of generic pharmaceuticals.

While pharmaceutical companies argue the price of of drugs reflects what they spend researching and developing new treatments, a study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine says the cost of developing a cancer drug is much lower than previously estimated.

These large molecule drugs differ from traditional pharmaceuticals in that they are usually injected, while small molecule pharmaceuticals are taken in tablet form.

Life hasn't been looking good for pharmaceutical reps for a while — there have been huge declines in drug rep sales forces (and in fact, of all the job losses in America in 2010, pharma is the sector that's lost the most jobs), and these technology - based changes are just picking up steam.