Sentences with phrase «by big pharma»

The work is being done, whether in - house by big pharma or outsourced to smaller organisations.

While some of the most egregious provisions pushed by Big Pharma that would have further threatened access to life - saving medicines were fortunately set aside (for now) in the revised TPP - 11 deal, most of the TPP's dangerous rules remain intact.

The latter is expected to accumulate annual «Continuing Medical Education (CME)» credits by reading journal articles, writing quizzes, and attending conferences — and most of the CME courses are funded in a roundabout way by Big Pharma.

[Translate] By Dr. Joseph Mercola Contributing writer for Wake Up World Drug Safety and Media Shaped by Big Pharma In this...

Ok, Ok, it may all be a conspiracy by Big Pharma, but I suspect the alternate therapy industry being worth $ 35 billion a year in the US alone, may have some bearing on the idea.

Even after breaking out of a seven - month base at 25.88 in big volume on Nov. 6 and quadrupling in price, the market value of the developer of treatments that are commercialized by its Big Pharma and biotech partners is $ 17 billion, a far cry from the megacaps such as Amgen (AMGN)($ 136 billion market cap) or Gilead Sciences (GILD)($ 106 billion).

«His thesis, which is no secret, is that biotech firms should be purchased by Big Pharma, which is always in need of new products.

I had a lipid panel done, that's triglycerides, LDL, HDL, and my doctor who has been brainwashed by big Pharma said my cholesterol was high.

They are themselves controlled by the AMA, who is controlled by Big Pharma, who also controls government and they have over 600 lobbyists in Washington.

So we are mostly on our own plus dependent on those alternative medicine doctors who do go outside the box of toxic current medicines promoted by Big Pharma, and it's a source of immense profit to so - called «organized» medicine advocates to use only their recommendations as instructed by the big pharmaceutical industry, and those who profit by it.

Many herbs will never be pursued by Big Pharma because they won't make money for shareholders.

Unfortunately science has been corrupted by Big Pharma, making it difficult to reach a solid determination on many health issues.

Because you are being told so with «evidence» by countless «studies» sponsored and manipulated by the Big Pharma for their own evil motives.

It is not made by Big Pharma.

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 sums up a lot of what Western, especially North American, medicine is about in these days of domination and dictation of medical training by Big Pharma.

Make your own choice, but I am not going to stand by and have natural medicine thrown out by Big Pharma without my voice being represented.

Just because it wasn't obtained via prescription or manufactured by Big Pharma makes it no less a risk to your delicate intestinal health.

However, our country is grossly overmedicated in a medical system largely controlled by Big Pharma.

Like many successful biotechs, CAT was snapped up by a big pharma company last year.

Yet few treatments have been developed by big pharma: of 1556 drugs approved between 1975 and 2004, only 21 were for such diseases.

«Legislation that was passed in Alameda County was obviously opposed by Big Pharma,» he said.

All she ever talked about was how hospital births and OBs are terrible, homebirth is best, vaccination hurts babies, all scientific studies are bought out by Big Pharma etc..

Cytotec is cheap and not recommended for pregnant women by big pharma or is big pharma charging high costs and pushing their meds onto pregnant women?

This new study and many other previous studies clearly contradict the propaganda espoused by Big Pharma and the U.S. Government dietary advice, which has been waging a war against saturated fats since the 1970s and the McGovern Report that promoted the false hypothesis that saturated fats led to an increase in lipid cholesterol levels and an increased risk for heart disease.

A few months ago, I wrote about the intriguing trend toward «re-launching» biotech startups that had been recently acquired by Big Pharma or Big Biotech — minus, of course, whatever promising drug candidates had prompted the acquisition in the first place.

People object to a system that they see as being dominated by big pharma, a system that intrusively asserts control over our lives, telling us what's wrong with us, and telling us what we must do in order to get better (as they choose to define «better»).

Not exact matches

The goal was to stop anti-competitive practices in legal settlements by established players in Big Pharma.

Big biotech and pharma companies are absolutely dependent on being able to successfully innovate by partnering with and acquiring disruptive startups because of the nature of the patent cliff in pharmaceuticals.

It's the biggest health reform legislation passed by Congress since Obamacare and has galvanized a similarly motley crew of industries and lobbying outfits — including big pharma (the legislation's most ardent proponent), patient advocacy groups, mental health organizations, and medical researchers — who fought for its passage over the last three years.

She speculates that the company strengthened its bonds with customers by taking a stand against Big Pharma.

Many of the recent Big Pharma deals and acquisition proposals have been motivated by the companies» desire to lower their tax rate by acquiring a foreign rival and moving their headquarters overseas in a process known as an inversion.

Imagine you don't like the way your physician is imposing his view of the world for you, and worry that his view is unduly influenced by the the marketing dollars of big pharma.

At a moment when the world's fourth - largest pharmaceutical company by sales (Pfizer) is eagerly courting the world's ninth - largest (the very same AstraZeneca from which Bristol decoupled)-- offering, in late May, a monumental dowry of around $ 120 billion — one can be forgiven for not noticing the more substantive change that's sweeping the pharmaceutical industry: Big Pharma is getting smaller.

If dollars were votes, big pharma would be beating California's controversial drug - price control ballot measure Proposition 61 by a margin of about 7 - 1.

No. 3: The year of big pharma In the past five years, big cap pharmaceutical stocks have lagged biotech stocks because they've struggled to fill revenue gaps created by the patent cliff.

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.

Common Cause says the Moreland Commission should open a probe to see if there's a link between around $ 5 million spent by major pharmaceutical companies on lobbying and campaign donations to New York state politicians, and the failure to pass major consumer - friendly bills regulating Big Pharma.

Essentially, as these drugs are produced by naturally grown compounds (instead of in a lab) they are easy to create and represent a threat to the interests of big - pharma.

The existing economies of scale available to «Big Pharma» and agribusiness conglomerates will drop the price point of narcotics dramatically (presumably offset by a vice tax).

Big Pharma Ramps Up Postdoc Programs, by Michael Price, 28 September 2012.

This isn't the first time a disused pharma research facility has been taken over by an educational institution, nor is it the biggest.

That's less than biotechnology (at $ 365 billion) and pharmaceuticals (at $ 1094 billion), but it's a big industry — according to a report by the consulting firm Frost & Sullivan, it's projected to grow over the next 3 to 5 years at an annual rate of 9 %, a growth rate comparable to big pharma.

When Janssen Pharmaceuticals, the R&D arm of pharma giant J&J, decided they were going to focus on novel therapeutics of big impact, rather than follow the competition's focus on branded generics or biosimilars, they completely redesigned how they could tackle that goal by opening five so - called innovation centers.

Encouraged by advances in the neuroscience of addiction, positive results from clinical trials and stirrings of interest from big pharma, Heilig and his colleagues are pushing for medication to become a mainstream treatment.

Creating new opportunities for «all of these very talented, experienced, displaced workers» requires «getting them thinking creatively about maybe making the move from big pharma, where they've spent their careers,» to other opportunities, such as smaller, newer companies created by themselves, perhaps, or other displaced scientists.

ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic by Alan Schwarz.

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.

Facing bipartisan hostility over high drug prices in an election year, the pharma industry's biggest trade group boosted revenue by nearly a fourth last year and spread the millions collected among hundreds of lobbyists, politicians and patient groups, new filings show.

It doesn't make sense to me that my own cells would be considered a «drug,» but Dr. Christopher J. Centeno who was interviewed for this article by Stephen Coles says that «The FDA is working to protect the interests of Big Pharma.»