Sentences with phrase «drug companies argue»

Dr Bokhari said: «The drug companies argue that they have a right to protect their intellectual property and that these agreements benefit consumers by enabling generic versions to come onto the market sooner than they would normally have, for example if licensed entry has been allowed at a later date but before the patent expires.

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They argue that many companies stick with traditional PBMs because drug pricing is so impossible to untangle that customers have no way to verify how much they're saving, if anything.

CVS and Aetna argue that their deal will lower healthcare costs for employees of their large corporate customers, giving the company greater clout to negotiate down drug prices and better manage the use of those medicines.

He argued the drug companies spent millions of dollars to promote the drugs for profit while denying or trivializing their potential addictive qualities.

Some investors argue that massive share - price increases in 2014 mean that even future successes won't produce strong returns for shareholders buying in at today's prices, but the demand among top pharmaceutical companies for promising drug candidates to add to their pipelines shows few signs of slowing anytime soon, and that could bode well for the sector in the coming year.

It could be argued that these types of gifts are wrong — they certainly can influence prescribing practice — but they're hardly trips to the Bahamas or free cars or whatever else people imagine when they hear «drug company gifts to doctors».

In a report, the commission argues that «[g] lobal governments should unite to offer multibillion - dollar incentives for drug developers, and pharmaceutical companies should pool their billions in support of early - stage research,» as Kelly Servick wrote Thursday at ScienceInsider.

Almost 30 years ago, in Blaming the Brain, neuroscientist Elliot Valenstein argued that drug companies spawned the myth that brain science had discovered the causes of depression and anxiety.

He then argues that homeopathy satisfies a real demand in healthcare, to the inconvenience of big drug companies, ignoring the fact that selling water and sugar to people is of great convenience to the big homeopathy 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.

The plaintiffs also included a negligent hiring claim, arguing that the trucking company was negligent in hiring the truck driver, given his past convictions for drugs and significant history of traffic offenses.

While pharmaceutical companies argue the price of of drugs reflects what they spend researching and developing new treatments, a study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine says the cost of developing a cancer drug is much lower than previously estimated.