Position Overview A regulatory affairs associate is usually
hired by a pharmaceutical company, to ensure that all of its products (including drugs and equipment) meet legislative requirements.
With Helmsley funding, CCFA's research consortium is now looking to identify potential therapies for
development by pharmaceutical companies while also conducting a rigorous investigation of the effect of diet on the microbiome and how that might allow patients to alter the course of their illness without taking medications.
The quest for change is stymied
by pharmaceutical company lobbying aimed at convincing the public that shutting some doors would amount to health care rationing, not better treatment or medical advance.
That appealed to John Cline, founder of eTrials Worldwide (NASDAQ: ETWC), a company in Morrisville, North Carolina, that sells software
used by pharmaceutical companies to manage clinical trials.
Among the new voluntary
efforts by pharmaceutical companies to post clinical trial data, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, one of the trade groups behind last week's proposal, will recommend that its members post trial results on a World Health Organization (WHO) global trials database that WHO hopes to establish in July.
In the late 1990s, STI - 571 (imatinib, Gleevec / Glivec) was identified
by the pharmaceutical company Novartis (then known as Ciba Geigy) in high - throughput screens for tyrosine kinase inhibitors.
Since joining the EMEA as a scientific administrator, Diafouka has been involved in a project, called EudraVigilance, that collects and evaluates data on adverse reactions
reported by pharmaceutical companies and health - care professionals.
They also complain that a 2004 WHO pandemic - preparedness document did not reveal that some of its authors had been paid for
work by pharmaceutical companies — although the scientists had declared their competing interests elsewhere.
Defective pharmaceuticals are described as causing physical or emotional injury that was not apart of any labeling or warning
issued by the pharmaceutical company producing the drug.
But according to Dr Adriane Fugh - Berman, principal investigator of PharmedOut, which examines pharmaceutical marketing practices: «Low T syndrome is
invented by pharmaceutical companies to sell treatment products.»
The «Make My LabWoRx» competition from Science WoRx, an online resource network for science educators sponsored
by pharmaceutical company Astellas Pharma US, Inc. is offering the opportunity for science teachers to win lab equipment for their schools through a competition with a goal of driving innovation in the classroom.
Almost all of the trials included in the meta - analysis were funded in
part by pharmaceutical companies, and some of the meta - analysis's co-authors have received honoraria from drug companies, too.
The small pill, containing the compound modafinil and marketed as
Provigil by the pharmaceutical company Cephalon, also makes my friends feel — perhaps actually be — more alert and focused when they return home.
The untold millions of mice, rats, and even dogs
owned by pharmaceutical companies, biotech corporations, and other industry labs are off the table says Bellotti, noting the business interests of his more conservative allies.
The therapies, hotly
pursued by pharmaceutical companies, inhibit proteins called kinases, and aim to halt the inflammation that causes debilitating pain and eventual destruction of bone and cartilage.
Drugs that can kill fungal diseases are keenly
sought by pharmaceuticals companies because they can often save the lives of people unfortunate enough to have depressed immune systems.
Alan Palkowitz, Lilly vice president of discovery chemistry and technologies, says open innovation programs are born of the realization,
especially by pharmaceutical companies, that «we can't do it alone; our current challenges are too big and complex.»
The frequency and growth of diabetes has not gone
unnoticed by pharmaceutical companies — at least 20 firms are feverishly searching for remedies, and at least 40 new drugs are being tested.
Other analysts have also noted that while research and development
spending by pharmaceutical companies has increased dramatically, the number of new drug approvals has remained flat.»