Sentences with phrase «big pharma into»

Some of the diagnostics companies, for instance, are expanding, and there's been an influx of big pharma into the area recently.»

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Immuno - oncolocy has been the focus of Big Pharma and biotechs alike, with companies such as Merck (mrk), Bristol - Myers Squibb (bmy), Pfizer (pfe), Roche / Genentech, Juno (juno), Kite Pharma (kite), Novartis (nvs), and countless others pouring massive investments into the space (the Loncar ETF contains almost all of these companies).

A 2017 investigation into lobbying efforts by «Big Pharma» conducted by The Washington Post and 60 Minutes found that the companies spent more than $ 106 million to lobby Congress in an effort to pass more favorable drug laws.

Modern psychiatry, in league with Big Pharma, has devolved almost purely into prescribing medication for pseudo-medical illness, giving pills instead of compassion, and thus trivializing human suffering.

He had observed that «what tends to happen in big pharma is that people get slotted into one area and they may not see the big picture.»

As «big pharma is actively seeking out investigations to do reformulations of existing small molecules into nanoparticles,» notes McNeil, there has been an uptick in career opportunities in both big and small firms in this sector, including startups.

The immediate payoff was a commercialization deal in age - related macular degeneration in which Pfizer became the first big pharma company to make a move into the use of embryonic stem cells as the basis for a tissue regeneration therapy.

Another area that big pharma has traditionally been reluctant to get involved with is research into orphan diseases — ones that affect so few people that working on them is not usually considered commercially viable by large companies.

Protein - based drugs are big business, yet biotech and pharma companies often struggle to turn proteins into medicines.

Big pharma is now throwing resources into developing new sex drugs to keep the market growing.

Big Pharma's focus on blockbuster cancer drugs squeezes out research into potential treatments that are more affordable.

Once you get into big pharma, there are many options, including staying with a scientific or clinical path or pursuing a management or even a business path.

And Big Pharma hasn't yet figured out a way to turn curcumin into a lucrative pharmaceutical drug.

Thoroughly investigate Pharmaceutical products that run their advertisements on television etc. these days and imply in their ads that taking Big Pharma's overpriced, dangerous medications will transform your disorganized, painful and depressed life into a life of happiness, abundance and clarity.

Well, I won't go into detail here, but the short answer is, mainstream medicine relies heavily on the drug «solutions» Big Pharma provides.

Further investigation into the wrongful destruction of Andrew Wakefield's career orchestrated by Big Pharma and the UK Department of Health inspired him to focus all of his attention on what he believes to be the most crucial documentary of the year.

That's the best we can do as the FDA is too bogged down with issues like the dairy industry trying to sneak sugar into milk without labeling it and the constant craziness with Big Pharma — I have friends who do or have worked there, there's no «extra» money for the FDA to go around figuring out exactly what all the compounds in a glass of milk do inside your body.

Big pharma has conned us into buying their drugs, not for good health, but for low cholesterol.

What is great about this debate is that it is bringing certain subjects out into the open, e.g. the dangers of refined and processed food, the statin scam, the biased and controlling medical profession and Big Pharma, and the need for food that hasn't been drugged, doped or dosed with poison.

Regardless Big Pharma almost completely avoids getting into the extensive morality debate surrounding the pharmaceutical industry which is probably for the best, opting for a couple of subtle comments amidst its puzzle gameplay.

Like any truly good management game Big Pharma succeeded in turning me into a cold, calculating boss intent on max efficiency and profit over all else.

More recently, the artist's meditations on branding have led to two new series of camouflaged map paintings that put Warhol, Madison Avenue, Big Pharma and the shelf of the local marijuana dispensary into a blender.

Similarly, biomedical and pharmaceutical research is bedazzled by molecular genetics, has sequenced the genome of one or two humans and a handful of other species and invested trillions on very rigidly reductionistic bottom - up research into medicines and diseases — with the result of empty drug pipelines for the big pharma companies in spite of all this investment.

As we've seen, big pharma is increasingly backing innovative biotech startups, from buying into cutting edge gene technologies to investing in personalised medicine.

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They wanted to transition from practicing medicine into a variety of areas: big pharma, medical writing, and strategic marketing.

But I saw it recently, and it's a little like watching a train wreck: this woman wrote a book called Big Pharma's Sexy Little Secret about how (and it's possible I've missed everything there is to see here...) pharmaceutical companies purposely hire «cheerleader» types so that they can use sex — or the idea of it, anyway — to manipulate doctors into buying more of their product.

This therapy - unfriendly worldview, amounting almost to a form of popular brainwashing, is sustained by the usual suspects: DSM, which provides a faux legitimacy to artificially constructed psychomedical disorders; Big Pharma's financial, social, and political clout, which vastly outclasses Little Psychotherapy on every measure; direct - to - consumer ads for psychotropic drugs, which turn every TV watcher or magazine reader into his or her own personal psychiatrist; and decreasing insurance reimbursement for therapy, as well as increasing reimbursements for prescriptions, which means that if people want therapy, they'll probably have to pony up for it themselves.