Sentences with phrase «big drug deal»

Trainspotting doesn't have a plot as such, and only tacks on a «big drug deal» narrative at the end of the proceedings to bring the film home.

Naively believing that he's got a sure thing on his hands, Frank borrows money from his supplier, Milo (Zlatko Buric, reprising his role from the Danish trilogy), in order to get in on a big drug deal.

Not exact matches

Which is why Sirturo, a drug discovered by Johnson & Johnson (jnj) in 2004 and given lightening fast approval by the FDA in December 2012, is such a big deal.

One of the year's biggest biopharma M&A scuffles came to an end in January when Johnson & Johnson finally struck a deal to buy Actelion, Europe's biggest biotech and a maker of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) drugs.

Increasingly, the big players leave that to startups, then later cut deals to acquire or license the drugs.

That's a big deal because Alnylam's drug is based on an extremely early - stage kind of medical technology called RNAi, or RNA interference, which uses basic biological building blocks to tackle problematic genetic discrepancies.

Drug giant Pfizer (pfe) has been rebuffed twice trying to do big deals.

«Even if it remains a Schedule I substance, the DEA will continue to allocate its resources and time to the biggest and most violent drug traffickers,» he says, explaining most of the agency's resources are being used to deal with the current opioid epidemic, which kills more people each year than auto accidents.

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.

New drug launches, Big Pharma and specialty drug maker news, deal making, manufacturing, marketing, clinical data on approved drugs

And the revised deal will let Rite Aid buy generic drugs through a Walgreens affiliate, allowing the smaller chain access to the lower prices enjoyed by its bigger competitor.

Interviews with former Sprout employees, analysts, investors and doctors who helped bring the drug to market suggest how a series of missteps after the deal, along with turbulence from aggressive accounting practices, unusual business relationships and big egos, derailed one of the most intriguing new pharmaceuticals in a generation.

The drugs industry has seen a surge in deal - making this year as large players look for promising assets to improve their pipelines, but a Takeda - Shire transaction would be by far the biggest yet.

Now Amazon's moves to enter the health care industry have led two major US companies to make one of the biggest deals of the year, signaling major changes to come in the way Americans buy drugs and otherwise manage their health.

You city police proudly announce more frequent drug busts (when was the last time they made such a big deal over pot?

Conservatives make a big deal about abortion but do next to nothing about starvation (1000s die a day), car and road safety, drug and alcohol abuse, gun safety, drug safety, food safety, water safety, preventable disease, etc. all of which kill vast numbers of people.

Clearly, waiting three years to tell her audience, she was obviously shopping around the drug companies to find the biggest deal she could wrangle as a paid spokesperson.

The night before the first time we were going to be drug - tested, a lot of guys were definitely anxious, and Bill said, «It's really no big deal.

Drug manufacturer Novartis AG said it plans to take over Alcon Inc. in a deal that broadens its business away from prescription drugs and makes it one of the biggest players in the global market for eye - care products.

In what will perhaps be the biggest end - of - session deal, Cuomo and legislative leaders agreed on bills to support addiction treatment and enact stricter penalties for illegal drug distribution, in response to what they deemed a heroin «epidemic.»

Synthetic chromosomes would allow them to go a great deal further — a big plus when it comes to testing new drugs.

Since RNA - based gene silencing drugs have been successful so far, why bother with the greater challenge of targeting the DNA of the huntingtin gene itself, especially if it means dealing with virus particles and big, fragile drugs made of protein?

In the UK we are fighting to save our NHS from privatisation and more influence from big business and drug companies, at the same time we also need to campaign for public medicine to become smarter in the way that it deals with diabesity.

Kudos has to go to Gary Oldman who makes the biggest transformation, Brad Pitt and Dennis Hopper showing their own respective brands of effortless style, and Patricia Arquette creating a woman that you would kill, steal and drug deal for.

Instead, his drugs and money are snatched and his supplier, a big - deal jerk played by Ed Helms, offers to wipe the slate clean if he'll make a quick run to Mexico to pick up some weed.

The Feds put the squeeze on Jason, but he's not going to do the same to some other innocent, and big papa John cuts his own deal with the federal prosecutor, Joanne Keegan (Sarandon, Cloud Atlas), that will reduce Jason's sentence — by catching a big fish drug dealer on his own.

As played by Michael Fassbender, the counselor — a slick lawyer whose first foray into a big - time drug deal goes wildly wrong — is a beautiful, passive idiot.

The deal marks a departure for Shire, the UK's third biggest drug - maker, which is focused on therapeutic medicines such as its best - selling attention deficit hyperactivity disorder drug, Adderall XR.

Speaking to CVG, he said, «In one place nudity is a big deal but violence is fine, and in another place drugs are a problem but nudity is fine.»

Approximately three - quarters of all respondents (76 %) and Trump voters (74 %) believe that high drug costs are the result of big drug companies and the deals their lobbyists make.

We may think of art crime as no big deal but according to the Association for Research into Crimes against Art, Art crime represents the third highest grossing criminal enterprise worldwide, behind only drugs and arms trafficking.

A recent piece in the New York Times said he had been targeted for assassination by a Mexican drug cartel when he was a federal prosecutor in California, was required to live in hiding, and dealt with bigger and deadlier bullies than Trump.

The high profile mandate — which will create the world's biggest drug company by sales — sees Wachtell advising Pfizer on the deal alongside Skadden and Ireland's A&L Goodbody.