Sentences with phrase «by drug companies»

In addition to unwanted additives, sometimes even sugar, they typically contain low - quality synthetic vitamins made by drug companies.

Until these review articles appeared, assumptions about the effectiveness of drugs were based only on published studies — ones which were largely funded by drug companies.

The project, which has been running for more than two years, employs some of the same methods used by drug companies.

Most continuing education is done by drug company representatives calling on veterinary practices — to sell vaccines.

Because essential oils are entirely natural, they can not be patented, which means they are not tested by drug companies.

However, unknown to the reader, the article is actually written by the drug company's paid - for - hire writers.

The need to run trials in children is also being addressed by drug companies.

Do you ever feel like you're being held hostage by drug companies?

And the general problems of research funded by drug companies are real enough.

These same tools can potentially be used by drug companies to identify new targets for treating many diseases and conditions.

Coffey is part of a trial sponsored by the drug company Pfizer awaiting approval in the United Kingdom that will slip a patch of hESC - derived RPE cells under the retina instead of injecting them in a liquid suspension.

Proposed state policies intended to control the opioid abuse epidemic over the past decade have faced a $ 3.7 million roadblock — the amount of money spent by drug companies and related advocacy groups to influence New York lawmakers.

What Judge Posner found there, crucially, is that the doctor's assertions about the effectiveness of the medication at issue were flatly contradicted by the information provided by the drug companies manufacturing the medication, as well as other sources of medical information.

If part of what's shaping your view of these drugs is the opinion of thought leaders on Twitter, then I think you have the right to know if they are paid by drug companies.»

The list price of the drugs he takes, called Humalog and Lantus and made by the drug companies Eli Lilly and Sanofi Aventis, have risen by about 300 % over the past decade.

In fact most of us would be trying to scratch out a living on a farm with no modern equipment, hoping for enough rain to produce food for the next year, and dying at 35 yrs old from diseases now cured by drug companies.

These are classic signs of liver toxicity because these vitamins are made synthetically by drug companies.

They included overcharging by drug companies and a probe into whether insurers defrauded the heirs of deceased veterans.

«But we have to be honest and say that, based on all the evidence, including data presented by the drug companies themselves, our experts have concluded that these drugs do not make enough of a difference for us to recommend their use for treating all stages of Alzheimer's disease.

Taxpayers pick up the costs of social services, law enforcement and Medicaid linked to medication abuse, fueled by drug companies encouraging the prescription of painkillers.

«Prescription drugs are seen as blessed by a trusted institution, the FDA, while increasingly aggressive advertising by drug companies simultaneously floods parents and children with messages that these substances are safe, popular, and beneficial.»

The chemical is now under evaluation by the drugs company Bristol - Myers Squibb, says Pezzuto.

Its aim, said Charles Medawar, cofounder of Social Audit, is to eradicate the «nanny knows best» attitude, by giving the public a right of access to the safety data given by drugs companies to the CSM.

Barry Schonwetter and colleagues at the Magainin Research Institute, a private laboratory run by the drugs company Magainin Pharmaceuticals in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, took cells from the surface of cows» tongues and used organic solvents to extract several chemicals.

THE genetic blueprint of a bacterium linked with the development of stomach ulcers and gastric cancer is being kept secret by drugs companies desperate to prevent rivals cashing in on the information.

Estrogen deficiency at menopause is a myth created by drug companies to justify selling supplemental estrogen.

Decreasing soluble epoxide hydrolase has become a target by drug companies, in order to produce medication in order to reduce hypertension, inflammation and tobacco - induced lung inflammation.

As a perfectly absurd example of how doctors have been wrongly influenced by the drug companies... about 8 years ago, I was a perfectly healthy 28 year old, in great shape, exercising daily, eating a balanced healthy diet full of antioxidants and quality nutrition, no smoking, and with no real risk factors for heart disease, and just because my cholesterol level has been consistently measured over 200 for my entire life, my doctor recommended I consider using a cholesterol lowering statin drug.

That's because your doctor has been brainwashed or bribed by the drug companies that now generate $ 29 billion dollars a year from selling statin drugs.

You'll have to ask the hospitals and the doctors — they're the top two recipients of your healthcare dollars, followed by the drug companies, nursing homes, dentists, and home healthcare companies.

While costs of the drug and all visits, etc are covered by the drug company once enrolled, the client must be willing and able to cover the typical costs for the initial visit to determine if their dog is eligible.

GE's decision, along with new move - ins by drug companies such as Selvita, show the region is becoming an epicenter of the new global life sciences / technology economy, says Mark Stewart, senior vice president and branch manager in the Boston office of real estate services firm Savills Studley.

That was a survey by a drug company — which has something to gain by classifying man flu as a genuine illness — but a study by scientists at the University of Queensland has also found that female volunteers had a «much stronger immune response» to rhinoviruses — the bugs that usually cause the common cold — than men.

Contrary to my paranoid suspicions, Mignot's study was funded not by drug companies but by two upstanding behemoths of American philanthropy, the Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute and the McKnight Foundation.

The odds are five times greater that a study sponsored by a drug company will support its own product than would a noncommercially funded study.

It has only just dawned on us that menstruation, pregnancy, and childbirth are not diseases; now we need to realize that menopause is not a disease despite millions in advertising dollars spent by drug companies to convince us otherwise.

If your vet has prescribed painkillers these will have been extensively tested by drugs companies to ensure they are safe.

Then there is some of the historic blunders by pharmaceutical companies in the social media area, which include Facebook fan pages on medical conditions which do not disclose that they are written by drug companies that sell products to treat these conditions.

Unfortunately, many vets recommending Leptospirosis vaccines rely on information provided by the drug companies that make the vaccines, and, as a result, are not aware that the vaccine does not confer immunity — despite the fact that even the AVMA guidelines warn that 30 % of dogs may not respond to the vaccine.