Sentences with phrase «for big drug companies»

Creating new drugs is notoriously expensive and time - consuming and, with tropical diseases, the financial incentive isn't there for big drug companies who...

But as its patent expires on November 30 and its first generic competitor takes the stage, Lipitor is also a painful reminder of the challenge that such «patent cliffs» pose for the big drug companies, including Lipitor's developer Pfizer, based in New York.

It is also restricted almost entirely to Africa, which, unfortunately for its victims, makes it a less attractive target for big drug companies than a host of non-fatal diseases (think erectile dysfunction) that are more common in rich countries.

Not exact matches

STAT reached out to the 15 biggest drug companies about the immigration ban; only Johnson & Johnson, Merck, and Novartis responded with statements — and they simply expressed support for affected employees, without taking a stance on Trump's action.

Add one more name to the new slew of pharma companies trying to counteract the public backlash to big drug price increases: France's Sanofi, a $ 126 billion firm known for its flagship diabetes and vaccines units.

This is quite a big deal as Valeant bought Sprout Pharmaceuticals, the company behind the drug for a whopping $ 1 billion just over two years ago.

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.

Another value play for 2017 could be Novartis, a Swiss diversified drug company and the world's biggest prescription drugmaker.

Such big winners stopped showing up a few years ago, leaving the large drug companies watching the calendar for the day when earnings would be hurt by the loss of key patent protections.

In May generic drug company Actavis Inc. agreed to buy Warner Chilcott PLC for $ 8.5 billion in stock, creating the third - biggest specialty pharmaceutical company in the U.S. market.

As big pharmaceutical companies find that the patents for some of their blockbuster drugs are expiring, they are desperately reaching out to replenish their drug pipelines.

They often license promising drugs to bigger pharmaceutical companies, which help pay for development and become responsible for making sales.

As for stem cell research, I don't think you understand the reach of these big drug companies.

Kay Abadee, VP of marketing at Axiom, noted that bigger companies were looking particularly for pea proteins with Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) certification from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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David Kessler, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, is calling for a big government - funded research project to help fill in the gaps in genetic pathways in people, which are turning out to be far more complex than expected for illnesses such as heart disease and which may be beyond the ability of private companies and smaller labs to figure out and pay for.

As well, pharmaceutical companies are looking for new ways to address their two - pronged pipeline problem: many big - name blockbuster drugs will soon lose their patents and, perhaps more important, there is a dearth of new blockbusters headed to the market.

The most important change occurring in the industry is a shift away from the traditional «big pharma» model for drug development, in which research and development are concentrated inside such companies as Pfizer, Merck, and AstraZeneca.

Like other big pharma companies, Pfizer is partnering with academic institutions to share the risk of drug development and take advantage of academic scientists» broad base of knowledge, says Boston - based Anthony Coyle, vice president of the Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI) at Pfizer.

He will assemble a group of people to voluntarily try an existing drug for a new application before a pharmaceutical company embarks on a bigger, more costly human trial.

Companies like 23andMe that offer to reveal your genetic secrets from a spit test can also sell your data to drug developers for big sums

The biggest UK employers in industry are Smith & Nephew, a research company focused on wound care, and drug company Pfizer, whose research includes developing stem cell therapies for Crohn's disease.

The crucial drugs are unlikely to be big moneymakers for companies that develop them, so governments and health agencies need to cooperate to boost the chances that they will be developed in time, notes Marie - Paule Kieny, WHO's assistant director - general for health systems and innovation.

A few drug companies have kicked the tires on stem cells over the years, but waiting for them to undo the current model is akin to banking on Big Oil to rethink energy.

At the same time that Purdue and other big pharma companies were hosting symposia, they doubled their sales force and gave doctors 30 - day free coupons so they could let patients try these drugs for pain that previously wasn't managed using opiates.

Steven Sinatra, MD remarked in his writings that drug companies Merck and Pfizer have transformed the medical profession into one big vending machine for statin drugs.

Nina and I are friends as well, even though I say her name wrong, who has also written some books about fat, but there's this national conversation where you have the old school low - fats, mostly paid for by big grain sort of research out there, and you're refuting some of that using very strong academics, randomized controlled trials, and the things that everyone wants, but no one has paid for except for maybe big drug companies and things like that.

In the UK we are fighting to save our NHS from privatisation and more influence from big business and drug companies, at the same time we also need to campaign for public medicine to become smarter in the way that it deals with diabesity.

Long - term studies of animal immunity would require a substantial outlay of money — the kind of money that only the drug companies have, and Big Pharma is much more interested in selling more vaccines than challenging the need for them.

Similarly, biomedical and pharmaceutical research is bedazzled by molecular genetics, has sequenced the genome of one or two humans and a handful of other species and invested trillions on very rigidly reductionistic bottom - up research into medicines and diseases — with the result of empty drug pipelines for the big pharma companies in spite of all this investment.

The drug injury and medical malpractice lawyers at Altman & Altman, LLP believe that the big pharmaceutical companies should be held accountable for their negligence, especially when it comes at the expense of thousands of lives.

When big drug companies put profits above the safety and wellbeing of the general public, we believe they should be held accountable for their actions.

Just recently one big pharmaceutical company was fined 1.2 billion dollars for failing to disclose possible serious side effects of one of their FDA - approved drugs.

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