Sentences with word «drugged»

Both Eli Lilly and Merck ditched late - stage Alzheimer's drugs they'd spent tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars developing after late - stage clinical trial failures over the past 12 months.

And you will likely have additional health - care expenses as you age: the cost of home care, physiotherapy, elective medical procedures and some prescription drugs may have to come out of your own pocket.

As attorney general, Sessions would be responsible for directing U.S. federal prosecutors on federal priorities and overseeing the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Through a friend, they scored a meeting with some RCMP drug cops.

• Mereo BioPharma, a London - based rare disease drug firm, filed an IPO of up to $ 81 million.

A small 2006 study found ginkgo was as effective as the drug donepezil for boosting attention and memory in people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's.

Zymeworks stands to earn up to US$ 110 million in milestone payments per drug — plus royalties should any of them make it to market.

Hoffman was known to have a history of alcohol and drug abuse, and had told the Guardian in 2011 that after a stint in rehab at an early point in his career he had given up drinking.

Colorado and Washington have now begun to offer real - world case studies of how to legalize pot — and whether to treat it as a drug, a crop or a vice.

That company never lost their fight, and recently announced it would pivot into drug development.

Separately, a Food and Drug Administration panel recommended that an experimental rheumatoid arthritis drug developed by Lilly and Incyte should only be approved at a lower dose.

Birds, for example, can regenerate hair cells — and lately researchers have found a few similar effects in mammals that used gene and drug therapy.

A fortune is made and spent on drugs to treat medical conditions — from stomach ulcers to headaches — that are caused or aggravated by stress.

The October 10 report, «Prime Time for Amazon's Entry Into The Drug Supply Chain?»

Hospitals and pharmacies shelled out $ 424.8 billion on drugs, up 12.2 % from 2014's record mark, according to new data from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.

American foreign policy insisted that everyone follow their lead in how to deal with drugs, and that meant criminalising people.

That injustice has become even more glaring as legal marijuana spawns an above - board industry that could grow to $ 50 billion within a decade, but which does not appear poised to benefit the very minorities who were so abused by earlier drug laws.

President Trump burnished his populist credentials on the campaign trail by regularly bashing the industry, pledging if elected to bring down drug costs.

The agents were particularly interested in the facility's practices when it came to an even smaller subset of those scheduled drugs: the highly addictive pain medicines containing oxycodone and hydrocodone that have been at the center of the nation's opioid epidemic.

Not only is the science around them advancing quickly, but the drugs are so complex that they are hard for generic producers to copy — an attractive prospect for big pharma.

Our neighbors to the north and south see the war on drugs as a failure and legal cannabis as an opportunity.

Other supplements even include prescription drugs with serious side effects.

To get around this gatekeeper, researchers have tried a number of approaches — including attaching drugs to nanoparticles that might slip through the BBB.

«We have the ambition to keep at least 50 percent of the ownership of all the coming drugs on our own hands and maybe we can take it to the finish line,» said chief executive officer Jan van de Winkel, speaking to reporters before the group's annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday.

These drugs can also interact, in potentially deadly ways, with other medications.

He added that an initial analysis did not turn up any problems with trial execution, data integrity or drug product quality.

Having those multiple partners is key, because one of the big risks any small biotech faces is that the partner decides to walk away from its development program — not surprising, since most drug development programs fail.

The computing power needed to model the complex interaction of biological compounds for drug development was not yet readily available, but that was always in the back of Tehrani's mind.

We've seen it with scandals involving everything from DUI's and drugs to sex scandals.

Genmab's strategy is to use its growing royalty stream from Darzalex to invest in its next wave of medicines like cervical cancer drug tisotumab vedotin, which is being developed in a 50/50 partnership with Seattle Genetics.

The draft guidance suggests that when apps are designed to collect information about specific patients and use it to, say, assist physicians in calculating the proper dosage of a drug, they may be subject to FDA oversight.

Made by companies like Gilead, AbbVie, Merck, and others, drugs that treat the disease are listed at tens of thousands of dollars in the U.S..

While the new mid-stage study results from DNDi were impressive (they showed cure rates of 96 % to 97 % even for the sickest patients and those with liver scarring), more late - stage trials will be necessary before the drug is available on a large scale in the developing world.

Sidenote: Chew is also one of the few biopharma execs I've ever spoken to who voluntarily brought up the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), a tough drug pricing critic organization which insists on proven outcomes (and has consequently become a major biopharma gadfly), because the group actually validated the cost - effectiveness of Omada's tech.

Though wholesalers like McKesson have limited control over what happens to the drugs they drop off at the pharmacy door, they have a legal obligation to maintain an effective system that will help prevent diversion; they are required to detect and report «suspicious orders» — those of unusual size, frequency or deviating from a customer's normal patterns — to the DEA.

The Food and Drug Administration keeps a list of all of the tainted products that have crossed its radar.

That could help curtail a true drug crisis with devastating economic and social impacts — and which was sparked, in large part, by the actions of huge pharmaceutical companies.

The FDA's Compliance Policy Guide provides guidance on the regulation of [over the counter] and prescription homeopathic drugs and delineates those conditions under which homeopathic drugs may be marketed in the U.S.

Cannabis - focused drug company Zynerba can't seem to catch a break.

«We know that these can be very toxic and have drug interactions,» says Austin, adding that «weight loss supplements are making up a majority of events where people end up in emergency rooms.»

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

This was not your typical drug bust — the breaking up of a meth lab or some seedy way station in the illicit drug trade.

These devices dispense a drug called buprenorphine — itself an opioid, but one that doesn't produce the sort of euphoric and addictive high that more powerful painkillers such as OxyContin and morphine do.

With city data indicating that African - Americans have been charged with marijuana crimes twice as frequently as white residents, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously in March to allocate 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis sales permits to people affected by the war on drugs.

The show portrays infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar, who is played here by Wagner Moura.

Daly is currently running her latest campaign to help fund the documentary «To the Edge of the Sky,» about four families trying to access life - saving drugs for their kids.

The potential deal sent both stocks soaring as it would tie up two giants from Quebec and give Metro an expanded foothold in the drug business, mirroring Loblaw Cos.» purchase of Shoppers Drug Mart four years ago.

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

Four years after grocer Loblaw Cos. bought drugstore Shoppers Drug Mart, rival Metro is following suit, making a bid for the Quebec - based pharmacy chain Jean Coutu.

What's more troubling is that the drugs, unlike statins and other common heart disease medications, don't have a whole lot of alternatives.