Sentences with phrase «because major pharmaceutical companies»

Hundreds of overdose victims in Erie County are dead because major pharmaceutical companies misled doctors and patients into believing that highly addictive, prescription painkillers were safe, Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz said.

Hundreds of overdose victims in Erie County are dead because major pharmaceutical companies misled doctors and patients into believing that highly addictive, prescription painkillers were safe, said Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, who is suing the companies in state Supreme Court.

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Maximizing support for the efforts of those such as Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and academic medical research centers is key, especially now because other major pharmaceutical companies could follow Pfizer's decision.

A friend of mine landed a great job with a major pharmaceutical company because she accepted the responsibility for a job that no one else wanted — to be the social chair for a regional meeting in her backyard.

«I imagine that if [metformin] was a proprietary drug owned by a major pharmaceutical company, they would be developing it very aggressively, because all of the indicators point in the same direction, and that's unusual,» Goodwin says.

Because of this structure, they are also one of the only major online pet pharmacies that acquires medication safely and directly from pharmaceutical companies.