Sentences with phrase «few pharmaceutical drugs»

This is one of the very few pharmaceutical drugs that I agree with.

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In the past few years companies like Braeburn Pharmaceuticals, Intarcia Therapeutics, and Proteus Digital Health have set out to create better medical mousetraps through devices that make existing drugs more effective.

A drug delivery shortfall from pharmaceutical firm Sandoz Canada is expected to affect the drug supply (for anywhere from a few weeks to a couple of months) of many common injectable medications in hospitals across the country.

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.

One of the few negatives on an otherwise fairly positive day of trading was the 5 % decline of Reckitt Benckiser, producers of a drug used to help get drug users off of Heroin called Suboxone, which acts as a replacement for the Class A. Reckitt's patent for Suboxone is due to expire in the relatively near future, so they have been trying to push doctors and other pharmaceutical vendors towards their film version of the drug, which is still under patent and will be for quite some time.

«For the past few months I have been working to pass the Erie County Pharmaceutical Water Pollution Act - a bill that would ensure pharmaceutical companies pay their fair share when it comes to the safe disposal of unused prescription drugs.

As the pharmaceutical industry's blockbuster drugs fall off the patent cliff, with precious few drugs in the pipeline to replace them, there are signs that big pharma could turn more of its attention to biologically derived medicines.

The pharmaceutical sector, for example, has spent billions on copycat drugs and treatments for depression and anxiety that have few clear benefits.

This is the barren territory that few traverse successfully, as many research institutions fail to move a promising biomedical discovery through all the rigorous tests required before a drug company wants to transform the discovery into a pharmaceutical product to help patients.

A study of how policies restricting pharmaceutical promotion to physicians affect medication prescribing found that physicians in academic medical centers (AMCs) prescribed fewer of the promoted drugs, and more non-promoted drugs in the same drug classes, following policy changes to restrict marketing activities at those medical centers.

«Once we understand the mechanisms in the brain, then pharmaceutical companies will be able to develop more effective drugs, perhaps with fewer side effects than our current options,» she says.

However, with few exceptions, the stem cell and regenerative medicine industry has remained inadequately capitalized to carry out large - scale clinical trials independently, and major pharmaceutical firms have tended to show more interest in the use of hiPSCs as a source of large, pure populations of specific somatic cells for use in drug compound screening and toxicology tests, than they have in therapeutic uses of stem cells and their derivatives.

«Some manufacturers have made it more difficult for the FDA to detect undeclared ingredients in their products by creating pharmaceutical analogues — they take the formula for an approved prescription drug and alter a few molecules, which makes the drug undetectable but basically creates a new prescription - strength drug that hasn't been tested by anyone.»

But compared to the pharmaceutical industry, there are very few rules and regulations from the FDA, which considers supplements to be more like foods than drugs.

The trouble is, most public water supplies are loaded with hazardous contaminants, such as disinfection byproducts (DBPs), fluoride, and pharmaceutical drugs, to name just a few.

He was diagnosed as having «irritable bowel syndrome» and placed on several drugs, including a pharmaceutical drug commonly prescribed for diarrhoea an anti-anxiety drug as well as an anti-depressant for the past few years due to his increasing despondency.

Here are a few good tips for clearing any stubborn drug residues from your liver after you have received a pharmaceutical drug from your doctor.

Since 2015 there have been a few pharmaceutical companies working on a new cholesterol - lowering drug type as a replacement for the older class of statin drugs, such as Lipitor.

Diabetes and glucose drugs: One of the reasons that pharmaceutical methods of treating diabetes have been so unsuccessful is because of their limited approach — nearly all diabetes drugs target one (or at most, a few) of the primary symptoms of diabetes, without actually addressing underlying causes.

Like the pharmaceutical industry, where fewer blockbuster drugs are being developed as low hanging fruit has been harvested and medicine becomes more personalized, software solutions are becoming more specific to local needs, which tends to shrink the demand for single systems or requires an increased degree of customization for systems that are widely adopted.

There's a massive shift that's accelerated over the last few years in how doctors view and interact with pharmaceutical reps, and in how they prefer to get their information on new drug treatments.

In addition, many pharmaceutical companies are producing fewer new drugs now than in the past due to concerns about funding as well as stricter FDA regulations.