Sentences with phrase «done by drug company»

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

That was done by the drug companies.

Not exact matches

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.

The talks between CVS and Aetna appear to be in part an attempt to fend off a move by Amazon into the drug - selling business — or at least to insulate the companies in case Amazon does invade.

The suit contended that the companies did so by inflating the published average wholesale price of the drug, giving free samples to doctors knowing they would charge patients and insurers for them, and giving incentives to doctors so that they would prescribe Lupron instead of less costly alternatives.

Bayer said in a statement that it doesn't control the cost for patients at the pharmacy, because copays are determined by insurers and pharmacy - benefit managers — an argument that pharmaceuticals companies have long made when facing criticism over drug prices.

By August, the company, which sells thousands of drugs and says it fills one in every 13 American prescriptions, was making mea culpas and renewing its promise to «do what's right, not what's easy,» as the company's mission statement goes.

First, patents are often taken out to use as legal weapons by huge companies to fight off their competitors even if they do not plan on completing trials for the drug.

That cash doesn't include the money PhRMA's spending on the ongoing «Go Boldly» campaign, a series of TV, print and radio ads designed to polish the drug industry's image by reminding the public that drug companies do world - class research that brings disease cures to market to save lives.

Warning families that pediatricians and pharmaceutical companies are harming children with unneeded drugs and vaccines, the 63 - year - old positions himself as a truth - teller who protects kids by upholding this oath, «Above all, do no harm.»

Labour leader Ed Miliband has reiterated his call for the Government to do an «objective test» on the impact of a potential takeover by Pfizer of AstraZeneca, despite the British firm's board rejecting the apparently final offer from the US drugs company.

Besides weed does not do nearly the damage that the opioids produced by legal drug companies inflict on our communities!

«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.

Although these facts do not mean that the results are invalid, a 2003 study published in the British Medical Journal suggests that trials funded by drug companies are more likely to report favorable results about their products than are trials funded by independent organizations.

Blood transfusions used for this purpose do not require approval by the US Food and Drug Administration, and some American companies are already charging hefty fees for transfusions of blood from young people.

She did a little research and learned that the company was working on a related drug that had not yet come up for approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administratdrug that had not yet come up for approval by the U.S. Food and Drug AdministratDrug Administration.

An American who buys golf clubs abroad and doesn't want to declare them can send them via a company that packs them in a shipping container, which then slips them into port without ever being seen by customs agents; the ability of drug dealers to bypass even the most elaborate border controls is a well - known problem.

The work has been done by Queensland Institute of Medical Research, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, Biotechnology Australia, and Hoffman La Roche, the Swiss drug company.

From the very first collaborations with companies doing pharmacogenomic analyses on new drugs, he has had to abide by strict agreements of confidentiality.

Unlike drug trials, the procedures for testing pesticides on people are neither specified nor reviewed by scientists outside the company doing the testing.

If they are on the market without generic versions to challenge them then companies can maintain monopoly prices, and in doing so harm consumers by preventing or delaying access to cheaper drugs.»

That's part of the reason that most drugs that work in animals don't work in people — only 11 % of oncology compounds that show promise in mice are ever approved for humans — despite billions of dollars spent by pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

«Estrogeneration: How Estrogenics are Making You Fat, Sick, and Infertile» by Anthony G. Jay «Truth About The Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About it» by Marcia Angell Michael Skinner — Epigenetics

It was pushed by the unscrupulous drug companies while they buried evidence of what it could do to infants from ~ 1945 - 1972.

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

I am simply asking you to question whether your medication is absolutely necessary or is simply being pushed on you by a powerful company for profit or a doctor who is doing the only thing he was taught — using drugs to treat every ailment.

This is why I encourage you to do your homework to learn more about the differences between whole food supplements made by companies like Standard Process and synthetic supplements you typically find in grocery and drug stores that provide isolated, fractionated and, often very minimal, pieces of the whole, at best.

While he does have some acquaintances and a predictably boring job at an insurance company, Dodge shows no inclination to join in the festivities of excess (drugs, sex, religion, riots) enjoyed by others, and instead offers up a lame, sure - to - fail suicide attempt to go with his droopy demeanor and overall lethargy.

Apparently, the drug company she was affiliated with didn't list the correct warnings by failing to mention the drug was never approved for pregnant women with a severe type of morning sickness called hyperemesis gravidarum.

Previews are sites doing a game's advertising for them; Kickstarter coverage reminds me of those ads put out by prescription drug companies which pretend to be detailing the results of a study.

The drug company Merck was sued by his surviving spouse, Carol, alleging that the Vioxx had caused the attack, and that the company did not provide sufficient warnings about the drug's possible side effects.

Companies that fail to do so may be liable for any harm that is caused by their defective drugs or products.

A group of former editors of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) has launched today an open - source, peer - reviewed medical journal that hopes to avoid what they say are editorial biases in traditional journals having to do with the important role research played by drug and medical appliance companies.

Courage says the ruling is important because it now means that companies looking to invalidate patents, like some who manufacture generic drugs, will not be able to do so by arguing that a company that manufactures brand name drugs over-promised its intended uses in its initial patent application.

Do not sit idly by as pharmaceutical companies make billions off harmful and irresponsible drugs; hold the corporations who wrong you liable for their irresponsible actions.

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.

If you're concerned that the life insurance company is going to report your drug use to the police or that they'll tell your employer, don't be — your medical information is protected by HIPAA, and the life insurance company will not be able to share your medical information without your permission.

The two wheeler insurance policy by National Insurance Company Limited doesn't cover damages due to accidents occurred while driving motor vehicles in India after being intoxicated by drugs or liquor

Mbanefo believes that counterfeited substances include not only drugs produced by illegal manufacturers but also those made by well - established companies that do not stick to the formula well enough.