Sentences with phrase «doing drugs for»

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He describes one of his employees, John, who is of Cape Verdean descent: «He was a drug dealer, and did some time for that.

For instance, legislators like Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Jeff Merkley of Oregon recently warned that Cures amounts to a big pharma giveaway which will weaken regulatory standards on drugs, provide a mere pittance to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and do nothing to confront the rising tide of high drug priDrug Administration (FDA), and do nothing to confront the rising tide of high drug pridrug prices.

And Marathon barely did any actual clinical legwork to get the drug cleared for Duchenne — it relied on 1990 - era clinical trial data before tacking on just enough study material to win an approval that doesn't even address the root cause of the disease.

Strikingly, for all the media attention on the case (propagated by Shkreli's troll - y Twitter antics and relish for stirring the pot), the trial verdict had nothing to do with the drug price hike that thrust him into the national limelight.

However, the retailer does not accept the return for disposal of the drugs that it sells.

Perepelkin says that failure applied to the pharmacies as well; for example, the Canadian pharmacies didn't carry Target's ClearRX trademark for prescription drug labelling that's been successful in the U.S.

«The tools they gain and the opportunities they earn permanently break the cycles of drug - use, incarceration, and poverty for them and their families, for life,» O'Donnell said in a statement to Business Insider, pointing us to some research outlined on The Doe Fund's website:

The company has responded with statements saying that it's not as dependent on drug price increases as critics have claimed; it has also pointed out that while attention has focused on changes in list prices for drugs, those prices don't reflect the actual cost for insurers, governments and other group purchasers, which typically receive discounts that aren't publicly disclosed.

So what does that mean for drug makers, practically speaking, if this framework is officially adopted?

Not only did the FDA accept Spark's application — it granted it a «priority review» status which shaves four months off of its regulatory review period for the drug.

Merritt cited a backlog among approval for generic drugs at the FDA as one of the reasons that many drugs don't face generic competition just yet.

However, it's far simpler to do consistent, smaller price hikes on drugs used by a far greater number of people in order to make up for revenue gaps.

Nuevo Laredo is a very important passageway in the state of Tamaulipas for drugs heading to the United States because of its connection to routes leading to northeastern US cities, and also because of the fact that US customs does not have the capacity to verify every shipping container that passes through.

«A hiring freeze at the FDA would conflict with and do significant damage to these bipartisan efforts to fill vacant positions and expand the scientific and technical workforce needed for a robust review of drugs and medical devices,» wrote Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

In a similar vein, earlier this year the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent a warning letter claiming that the Just Mayo products are «misbranded» because they do not meet the definition and standard of identity for mayonnaise.

Immuno - oncology drugs have proven promising and effective for many patients; but they also don't produce a response in a sizable chunk of the patient pool and may eventually wane in efficacy.

When you have these kinds of price hikes, which in some cases I believe are just simply criminal and they are done because of greed, it's like putting a gun to somebody's head and saying you need to pay me this very high price for the drug or you die.

In 2004, when the NHL brought in its first anti-doping drug - testing protocol, Nichol, then working for the Leafs, knew he had to do something to control what was going into his players» bodies.

Celgene agrees to buy rest of Juno Therapeutics it doesn't already own for about $ 9 billion in cash to gain access to Juno's pipeline of CAR - T cancer drugs.

While it might cost $ 3 to $ 4 billion to develop a drug in the U.S., the same development could be done in China for about $ 30 to $ 40 million, Leung explained.

The lawyers come, as do the sales reps.. As the company fights to get approval for its first marketable drug, Incivek, an oral treatment for Hepatitis C, there is an outbreak of practicality at the company.

drugs for rare and serious illnesses are what i focus on and you don't have to advertise those.»

This is far more targeted than the traditional model for drug development, which includes such scattershot methods as screening natural elements like soil from a plateau in Norway and then asking, What might this do?

«One of the things in getting this drug to market was about women being able to get it affordably, and because of Valeant, we're able to do it for as little as $ 20 per prescription.

But according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) which did a study in 2013 on the drug shortage, other reasons include a lack of materials to make the drugs, as well as delays in getting government approval for new and experimental drugs.

Can you vote on reinstating an employee who violates a drug policy, for instance, as Atlas once did?

Ross Ulbricht aka Dread Pirate Roberts will do time for running an online drug and mayhem marketplace.

For drug makers, there's plenty of hurt in not knowing which drugs do what to whom and when.

Currently, they pay less than developed countries for drugs, so companies don't make as much money there.

The Chinese government continues to impose death sentences for crimes that don't warrant it under Chinese law, such as drug - trafficking or financial crimes, and after unfair trials, the report states.

Prince did not have a prescription for any such drugs in the year before he died, according to the Associated Press.

Patients with HIV / AIDS, multiple sclerosis, or hypophosphatasia can not go to a regular pharmacy because they don't carry orphan drugs, or medicines made for small populations.

Especially if the drug cost 3,000 % more than it did a decade ago, even though nothing about it had materially changed in that time (or for that matter since its creation in the 1950s).

While having genetic validation for a target is no guarantee of success — scientists still have to figure out how to drug the target safely and effectively, and meet myriad other biological challenges — it does offer a head start.

By comparison, in states where the drug did become legal for medical use, the rate of illicit use went from 5.55 percent to 9.15 percent.

By bringing a drug that's been well - established as safe in other markets to the U.S. for the first time in order to treat a rare disease, the company doesn't just control its pricing destiny — it will also receive a coveted «priority review voucher» which it can hawk to another firm for tens (or even hundreds) of millions of dollars.

I say «curious» because Marathon came under intense scrutiny for its initial plans to hike the drug's price to $ 89,000 per year even though it's available for a mere pittance in other countries (and doesn't actually address the root causes of Duchenne, but rather just some of its muscle - wasting symptoms).

Don't blame us for dramatic drug price hikes — that was the clear message from drugstore and pharmacy benefits manager CVS Health on Thursday.

CVS: Don't blame us for drug prices.

While Tesaro is remaining publicly coy for now, a buyout has always been in the cards as big pharma companies continue to snap up biotechs that have already done drug development legwork for them.

From implantable devices that provide a steady trickle of medicine over months, to patches that reduce the need for injections, to ingestible sensors that track how people take their meds, the bold new science of drug delivery may be doing as much to improve medicine as the medicines themselves in some cases.

If we don't want it to become the preferred payment system for purchasing recreational drugs, prohibited sexual material or your favorite illegal good, it can be redesigned.

Conservatives have accused Trudeau of wanting to make pot easier for kids to obtain but the Liberal leader has maintained that regulating the drug will do more to keep it away from children.

Intarcia Therapeutics Inc. is now focused on delivering a drug for diabetes, but the possibilities don't end there.

If Issue 2, or the Drug Price Relief Act, passes, the act would require the state and state agencies, including Ohio Medicaid, to pay the same or lower prices for prescription drugs as the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs does.

«We didn't have a specific reversal strategy for these drugs, and I think that left people feeling a bit insecure,» added Pollack, who has done clinical work on a recently approved antidote to Boehringer Ingelheim's rival blood clot preventer Pradaxa.

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board was busy acquiring everything from real estate to power, oil and gas, and future royalties in a cancer drug, Venetoclax, while the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec joined forces with Suez to buy General Electric Co.'s water and process technologies business for US$ 3.4 billion.

Brian Henry, a spokesman for Express Scripts, the nation's largest pharmacy benefit manager, declined to comment on the lawsuit, but said, «Rebates don't raise drug prices, drug makers raise drug prices.»

«The intensifying battle for negotiating power and market share will lead companies to do acquisitions across traditional industry boundary lines,» said Erik Gordon, a professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan who studies the drug industry.

We do this by conducting clinical trials in which we collect safety and efficacy data about our experimental drugs with the goal of submitting those data to regulatory authorities, like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA), so that these experimental drugs can be approved for use by patients.