In some cases, people may be injured by defective products such
as pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices.
Our waterways are polluted by industrial waste and their byproducts, as well
as pharmaceutical drugs, pesticides, herbicides and commercial cleaning products.
The New England Journal of Medicine reported that some dietary supplements contain banned ingredients as well
as pharmaceutical drugs.
reported that some dietary supplements contain banned ingredients as well
as pharmaceutical drugs.
Specific to one of my areas of expertise, exercise psychology, we know that exercise is a powerful treatment which is just as effective
as pharmaceutical drugs for mild depression.
NSF Standard 401 - Emerging Compounds / Incidental Contaminants: This standard covers up to 15 contaminants found in tap water such
as pharmaceutical drugs, heavy metals, and flame retardants.
Not exact matches
But the reorganization would require them to report to six product - specific offices instead (such
as pharmaceutical quality, medical devices, biologic
drugs, and others).
As part of its deal last year to buy Sprout
Pharmaceuticals and the Addyi
drug, Valeant committed to spend $ 200 million on sales and other expenses through June 2017 (see page 13).
Activist hedge fund investor and recent Valeant
Pharmaceuticals (vrx) board appointee Bill Ackman on Wednesday slammed the company's steep
drug price hikes in testimony before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, going so far
as to say the cost bumps «contributed to healthcare inflation and called into question the company's commitment to the patients it serves.»
Martin Shkreli, unaffectionately known
as the «pharma bro» — and infamous for his decision to hike the list price of Daraprim, a
drug used by HIV / AIDS and cancer patients to combat infections, by more than 5,000 % in 2015 under his former company Turing
Pharmaceuticals — was convicted on three criminal securities fraud and conspiracy charges by a Brooklyn jury on Friday.
«And
as long
as that happens, your insurance company is not going to pay your bill if you take a
drug and the
pharmaceuticals are not going to develop the
drugs because if nobody is going to pay for their use, why spend the money on that?»
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.
On Wednesday, Swiss
pharmaceutical giant Novartis made history
as the first company to win Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) approval for a groundbreaking new type of cancer treatment known
as CAR - T.
As the executive branch decides how to address the opioid epidemic, communities hit hardest by the prescription
drug crisis are beginning to target the
pharmaceutical companies responsible for selling the addictive
drugs.
LONDON, April 12 - GlaxoSmithKline is divesting its rare disease gene therapy
drugs to private biotech company Orchard Therapeutics
as Chief Executive Emma Walmsley makes good on her promise to prune the drugmaker's
pharmaceuticals portfolio.
Generic
drug giant Mylan is cutting its financial outlook
as it continues to face pressure from falling generic
drug prices (a fate that similarly struck rival Teva
Pharmaceuticals).
LONDON, April 12 - GlaxoSmithKline is divesting its rare disease gene therapy
drugs to Orchard Therapeutics, it said on Thursday,
as Chief Executive Emma Walmsley makes good on her promise to prune the drugmaker's
pharmaceuticals portfolio.
As I've previously reported, Roivant and its federation of biopharma companies focused on developing
drugs in specific disease spaces is attempting a very new form of
pharmaceutical R&D.
He's hired a crisis PR firm, and run into another
pharmaceutical company that has decided to market a competing
drug to Turing's pyrimethamine (known on the market
as Daraprim) for $ 1 per dose.
As Businessweek reports, the case centers on a Japanese
pharmaceutical company called Asahi, which licensed a
drug called Fasudil to the San Francisco - based company CoTherix in 2006.
Bristol's $ 2.4 billion purchase of Medarex — which
pharmaceutical analysts routinely cite
as one of the best acquisitions in the history of the industry — would give the company not only a new blockbuster but also a leadership position in a burgeoning
drug category: immuno - oncology.
The FDA's intent with Canada
Drugs could be to restrict sales of erectile dysfunction drugs, appeasing the pharmaceutical lobby angry about lost sales of popular products, without targeting the sale of heart medication and similar life - saving drugs so as not to punish low - income Ameri
Drugs could be to restrict sales of erectile dysfunction
drugs, appeasing the pharmaceutical lobby angry about lost sales of popular products, without targeting the sale of heart medication and similar life - saving drugs so as not to punish low - income Ameri
drugs, appeasing the
pharmaceutical lobby angry about lost sales of popular products, without targeting the sale of heart medication and similar life - saving
drugs so as not to punish low - income Ameri
drugs so
as not to punish low - income Americans.
A lot of people still think of the
pharmaceutical industry
as a free - spending behemoth that counted on a handful of brand - name
drugs such
as Lipitor, Viagra and Prozac to make up for all the misses.
Inside Mylan, executives including Bresch all refer to EpiPen
as her «baby»: It's Mylan's first billion - dollar
drug, reaching $ 1 billion in annual sales in 2014 and 2015 — making it what the
pharmaceutical industry calls a «blockbuster.»
I hope so, particularly in light of
pharmaceutical companies frequently pointing to the high costs of developing new
drugs as being the primary reason prices are so high for existing
drugs.
This is quite a big deal
as Valeant bought Sprout
Pharmaceuticals, the company behind the
drug for a whopping $ 1 billion just over two years ago.
In fact, when pressed on the issue, Verheul speculated that perhaps costs would not increase since Canadians already pays higher prices for
pharmaceutical drugs than consumers in European countries such
as the UK, France or Germany.
As the CEOs of Shoppers
Drug Mart and Rexall, they control the two largest
pharmaceutical companies in English Canada.
Why should we expect Mylan or any other
pharmaceutical company to refrain from yanking up the price of lifesaving
drugs as high
as the market will bear?
The company now controls nearly half of the market for insulin products — which are second only to oncology
drugs as the fastest - growing category of
pharmaceuticals.
Drug companies are acting much like a cartel such
as OPEC, says Stephen Schondelmeyer, a
pharmaceutical economist at the University of Minnesota.
These healthcare brands will have the effect of soothing out the inevitable fluctuations that occur on the
pharmaceutical side, though right now, Glaxo's portfolio is boasting robust growth from small - scale HIV
drugs Triumeq and Trivicay (which,
as the CEO noted in the last annual report, sport year - over-year sales growth of 41 % and 43 %, respectively).
However, in very rare circumstances, Ionis
Pharmaceuticals is able to make an experimental
drug that we are developing available for patients outside of a traditional clinical trial under an expanded access protocol, sometimes referred to
as a treatment protocol.
The leading products manufactured in Pennsylvania are chemicals and
pharmaceuticals such
as prescription
drugs and aspirin.
Ionis
Pharmaceuticals» mission is to develop safe and effective RNA - targeting
drugs for both rare and more prevalent diseases and providing those
drugs to the broadest group of patients
as quickly
as possible.
She co-founded and last served
as CEO for Sprout
Pharmaceuticals where, in 2015, the company broke through with the first ever FDA - approved
drug for low sexual desire in women — dubbed «female Viagra» by the media.
Exercise, even very little of it at a time, appears to slow aging at the cellular level — so much so that, if it could be bottled
as a
drug, it would be the most successful
pharmaceutical ever developed.
As big
pharmaceutical companies find that the patents for some of their blockbuster
drugs are expiring, they are desperately reaching out to replenish their
drug pipelines.
With several
drugs currently acting
as significant drivers of growth, J&J's
pharmaceutical segment looks well placed even
as the company strives to maintain its market share in consumer healthcare and medical devices.
One of the few negatives on an otherwise fairly positive day of trading was the 5 % decline of Reckitt Benckiser, producers of a
drug used to help get
drug users off of Heroin called Suboxone, which acts
as a replacement for the Class A. Reckitt's patent for Suboxone is due to expire in the relatively near future, so they have been trying to push doctors and other
pharmaceutical vendors towards their film version of the
drug, which is still under patent and will be for quite some time.
The U.S. Food and
Drug Administration's approval of Mylan N.V. (NASDAQ: MYL)'s generic version of Copaxone for the treatment of relapsing multiple sclerosis should be seen
as a «clear negative» for Momenta
Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTA)'s Glatopa franchise, analysts at Baird said.
(Reuters)- Mallinckrodt Plc (MNK.N) is exploring a sale of its generic
drug unit, in a deal that could fetch
as much
as $ 2 billion and help pivot the specialty
pharmaceutical maker toward higher - margin branded
drugs, according to people familiar with the matter.
Pharmaceuticals are way up,
as higher
drug prices loom for Medicaid and Medicare.
What looks like a bubble at first glance can be viewed
as a long - term strategy for funding
drug development, one that involves private funds,
pharmaceutical companies and the public markets, along with a good deal of risk — and, sometimes, high reward.
Drug companies often face the need to come up with new medicines, especially
as patents on older
pharmaceuticals expire.
As drug patents begin to roll off and scrutiny around
drug prices increased over the summer, many
pharmaceutical company's struggled.
Many economics and business textbooks cite the
pharmaceuticals and
drug sector
as examples when describing barriers to entry.
(Reuters)- Alexion
Pharmaceuticals Inc (ALXN.O) on Monday named former Baxalta CEO Ludwig Hantson to its top job,
as the rare - disease
drug maker seeks to regain investor confidence following the exit of top management.
Scandals can pertain to large - scale corporate conduct involving the cooperation of many people (such
as the Volkswagen emissions - falsification scandal), to an individual corporate decision (
as when Turing
Pharmaceuticals raised the price of one of its
drugs from $ 13.50 to $ 750 per pill), or to illicit behaviour by an individual (such
as a corporation's CEO).
Recreational «
drug» use such
as is currently allowed by law here in the U.S. puts upon the general populace many social discords that have tendencies to demoralize the individual welfares thereby lowering the nation's social wellbeing... Synthetically made
pharmaceutical drugs can not replace naturally occurring
drugs and such synthetics are apt to be more harmful and way more addictive than the naturally occurring ones.