Sentences with phrase «by drug makers»

In other words, the duty to warn of dangers by drug makers runs to the doctor not the patient.

«In some significant ways, the industry's efforts to push laptops and apps in schools resemble influence techniques pioneered by drug makers.

A class action lawsuit claims these dates are basically bogus, made up to goose replacement sales by drug makers who know the drugs are good for years, even decades, after the «use by» date.

But these proposals have the same fundamental flaw as state laws — at the end of the day, requests must be granted by drug makers, not just the FDA.

The suit, filed on Wednesday, also accuses four physicians of being paid by drug makers to promote their prescription painkillers and mislead other physicians regarding the drugs» addictive properties.

The company focuses on cancer drug research and has a platform for so - called «real - world» data, which can be used to assess the economic value of medicines and is sought after by drug makers looking to justify their prices to health insurers.

He's endorsed policies like direct drug price negotiation in Medicare (usually a Democratic wish list item that's despised by drug makers) while simultaneously promising to slash other regulations on the biopharma industry; he famously promised «insurance for everybody» yet ostensibly supports benefit cuts and a rollback of the Medicaid expansion, which has covered millions of the poorest Americans.

Similar trends in biopharma M&A, which has disrupted business for third - party firms used by drug makers.

But the initiative comes with another huge financial prize for firms that successfully win FDA approval for these niche therapies: a priority review voucher that can be used to slash the regulatory period for a different experimental specialty treatment being developed by a drug maker or, more often, sold for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to another pharma company.

He wasn't involved in the new study, which was funded by drug maker Janssen.

The new study was funded by drug maker Novartis.

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Senator Investment Group raised its holding by 130 percent when it added 8.5 million shares in the drug maker.

The hep C treatment is being developed by the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) in collaboration with Egyptian drug maker Pharco Pharmaceuticals.

Rajiv Malik, president and executive director at EpiPen maker Mylan (essentially the company's number two exec), has been named in a wide - ranging civil suit alleging drug price collusion by numerous prominent generic drug makers.

Other pain points included drug pricing and how approving more generics may affect costs (Gottlieb parried that question by noting the FDA doesn't have the authority to negotiate prices or consider pricing when approving a drug) and his alleged softness on opioid drug makers due the aforementioned financial ties and pro-industry ideology (the nominee noted that he considers opioid addiction and overdoses a public health crisis «on the order of Ebola and Zika»).

On the heels of rival diabetes drug maker Novo Nordisk's announcement that it will limit branded drug price hikes to the single digits going forward, U.S. pharma giant Eli Lilly announced Tuesday that it is partnering with benefits manager Express Scripts and a mobile health platform hosted by Blink Health to slash patients» insulin costs.

On the other hand, the world's biggest drug makers might be missing a major opportunity by sitting on their hands.

Although the FDA can't dictate prices or reject therapies over pricing concerns (they can only focus on safety and efficacy), the agency can encourage more competition through moves like this (as well as speedier approval pathways) which could spur drug makers to produce products that ultimately lower costs for patients — a goal cited by FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb in announcing the list.

While the drug maker has responded to the massive backlash over its extravagant price increase on the device by boosting its patient assistance programs and introducing an authorized generic EpiPen version at half the cost, CVS» topline price will still be significantly cheaper.

The expiration date, typically just one or two years after manufacture, simply shows how long the maker tested the drug's stability by exposing it to extreme temperatures, humidity and light.

But it's not just the peanut gallery raising the alarm — drug makers are also shifting their strategies, as evidenced by Novartis chief Joe Jimenez's statements this morning during an earnings conference call with reporters.

In an email he sent Ackman, who is one of the world's best - known hedge fund managers, was a link to Hempton's latest critique of the Canadian drug maker's potential problems, one of the most detailed produced by anyone yet.

The move may inhibit competition by preventing generic drug - makers from obtaining access to samples, Stock said.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The maker of the much - debated painkiller Zohydro is seeking approval of a harder - to - abuse version of the drug which, if approved, could replace the currently marketed version of the pill by next spring.

Conservative foundations, multinational oil companies and a prescription drug maker were the most frequent sponsors of more than 100 expense - paid educational seminars attended by federal judges over a 4 1/2 - year period, according to a Center for Public Integrity investigation.

It's the first so - called «pay for delay» case brought by the commission in which a drug's original maker agreed not to sell its own «authorized generic» version until well after a generic drugmaker began selling its product.

An Indian generic drug company on Monday urged a federal appeals court to reconsider a recent decision that revived a patent infringement case against Google LLC, saying the ruling could spur «vexatious lawsuits» by makers of brand - name pharmaceutical products.

** Specialty chemicals maker Lonza Group AG said it was ending a generic drugs venture with Israel's Teva Pharmaceutical Industries by mutual agreement after misjudging how much it would cost.

Bill Hammond notes that the makers of the anti-addiction drug Vivitrol — whose controversial nationwide lobbying campaign was spotlighted by the New York Times last week — appear to be getting results in Albany.

As reported by the Times, the makers of Vivitrol have gained market share by portraying it as preferable to drugs like buprenorphine and methadone, which are themselves opioids used in controlled doses to manage cravings.

The maker of Suboxone, a blockbuster drug that helps people control their opioid addiction, engaged in anti-competitive business practices, coercing patients to use an oral strip because the tablets were set to face generic competition, according to a federal lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and 35 other Attorneys General.

The state has added compounds to the list of illegal substances in the past, only to see the makers of the synthetic drugs stay ahead of the law by slightly changing formulas when one compound is made illegal.

Many thousands more papers remain sealed as part of ongoing lawsuits brought by more than 14,000 women against the drug maker Wyeth, which was bought last year by the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, based in New York.

Gelfand is a consultant and has received honoraria from Janssen Biologics, which is owned by the same parent company as the maker of the drug.

To address these trends the authors suggest that policy - makers consider measures that would increase primary prevention of drug use by drivers, including curbing prescription drug use by drivers through counseling by medical professionals, and increasing affordable access to mass transit.

Earlier this year, Genzyme, a drug company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that makes alemtuzumab and a range of other therapies, was acquired by Paris - based drug - maker Sanofi.

That concern is one reason the research team, led by Christina Smolke, a synthetic biologist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, stopped short of making a yeast strain with the complete morphine pathway; medicinal drug makers also primarily use thebaine to make new compounds.

Last year, Affymax was purchased by Glaxo, the world's largest drug maker.

The committee members who opposed approval were unconvinced by the clinical data submitted by the drug's maker, Sarepta Therapeutics, because the evidence came from a single small study that many experts considered problematic.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), The National Cholesterol Education Program, The American Heart Association and many academic centers are led and influenced by physicians who receive direct or indirect benefit from the makers of statin drugs.

Xenical is sold by Roche and Alli is sold by GlaxoSmithKline, both very renowned drug makers.

There has been little scientific evidence of the relative effectiveness of these drugs, because most studies compare one against a handful of others or a placebo, and are often funded by the maker of a particular drug, which can bias the findings in its favor, the researchers note.

We are instead given a number of impressive, but token flashy performances by veteran actors in tough guy bit parts (Pete Postlethwaite and Chris Cooper as irredeemable lifelong criminals) and newcomers in «dramatic stretches» (The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner who is good (again) but not as great as the star - makers would have you believe, and most notably, Blake Lively, excellent as a drug - addled neighborhood floozy).

Blue chip drug makers such as Merck (MRK) have historically been very popular with income investors because of their defensive nature, meaning that drug demand isn't really affected by economic downturns.

Their claims are not evaluated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and they do not have to follow the same requirements that prescription drug makers folDrug Administration (FDA) and they do not have to follow the same requirements that prescription drug makers foldrug makers follow.

If you were injured by a drug, it could be the pharmacist's fault for mixing up the prescription, the doctor's fault for prescribing it to you or the drug maker's fault for either releasing a dangerous product or encouraging it be taken for unapproved uses.

A class action injury lawsuit seeking over $ 600M against drug maker Pfizer Inc. was even filed by women in Canada who blame the contraception for their osteoporosis.

In a 5 - 4 vote, the court had agreed with the defendants that they had no alternative but to use the exact same drug labels as the ones used by the brand drug makers.

Under this Doctrine, a drug maker basically fulfills its duty to warn users of a drug's risks by warning the prescribing physician.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved the first medical robot from Auris Surgical, a stealthy startup led by the co-founder of industry leader Intuitive Surgical, makers of the widely - used da Vinci robot.