Sentences with phrase «for known drugs»

Identification of new therapeutic applications for known drugs: Boston Children's investigators have developed and characterized a wide variety of preclinical assays and animal models useful for identifying additional therapeutic indications for safe compounds.

The researchers also described the full gene repertoires for known drug target families.

Not exact matches

Bitcoin, like most other digital currencies, is anonymous (but not untraceable)-- which was one of its key selling points in the early days when it was perhaps best - known for buying drugs on the dark web.

From 2011, Bitcoin was best known for its association with the dark web bazaar called Silk Road, where unscrupulous folks used it to buy or sell drugs and other contraband under the guise of pseudonyms — the only basic protection Bitcoin afforded.

Rather, it's the no - holds - barred sales practices that Alexion allegedly engaged in — which, in some cases, reportedly led to salespeople bullying doctors into prescribing the drug for patients even when the efficacy of the treatment was unclear.

Cancer patients, especially those on chemotherapy, can really benefit from a personal chef who knows how to make food that's especially appealing when chemotherapy drugs make food unappealing but when it is important to maintain nutrition for strength and the best health possible.

But Spangenberg says he knew when he started with Bass that the drug patent effort wouldn't hold his interest for the rest of his life.

Novo Nordisk said the initial feedback for its Ozempic diabetes drug, known generically as semaglutide, was positive and that the formulary coverage was «progressing well».

Martin Shkreli, unaffectionately known as the «pharma bro» — and infamous for his decision to hike the list price of Daraprim, a drug used by HIV / AIDS and cancer patients to combat infections, by more than 5,000 % in 2015 under his former company Turing Pharmaceuticals — was convicted on three criminal securities fraud and conspiracy charges by a Brooklyn jury on Friday.

Gilead Sciences is known for its flagship hepatitis C and HIV / AIDS drug franchises.

In outcome - based pricing, drug companies will know that payment is coming if the treatment works, and that means more incentive to develop new cures and to find new applications for existing drugs.

On Wednesday, Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis made history as the first company to win Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for a groundbreaking new type of cancer treatment known as CAR - T.

Such a system makes it difficult for governments to know the identities of people exchanging money, so it has become a haven for money laundering, drug dealing, and corruption.

Instead, following Hopper's death in 2010, it's best known for the tales of drug use and partying that went on throughout the creation of it.

«We are a very fun company, but at the end of the day we all know our part in the mission» — making drugs for life - threatening illnesses.

In 2004, when the NHL brought in its first anti-doping drug - testing protocol, Nichol, then working for the Leafs, knew he had to do something to control what was going into his players» bodies.

We should know, for example, how many weeks» worth of necessary drugs hospitals have «in stock.»

He's hired a crisis PR firm, and run into another pharmaceutical company that has decided to market a competing drug to Turing's pyrimethamine (known on the market as Daraprim) for $ 1 per dose.

Her company is best known for jacking up the price of life - saving EpiPen anti-allergy medication, but it also manufactures naloxone, a drug meant to treat opioid over-doses.

The new offering, «Watson for Patient Safety,» will gobble up anonymized medical records, claims data, and millions of electronic submissions to the FDA about potential drug side effects (known as individual case safety reports) to see if it can learn about the hidden dangers of medicines before they become too costly.

«It's hard to know what incentives will work for the pharmaceutical companies to increase drug production,» said the University of Utah's Fox.

Scientists know how to make fruit flies and mice smarter, and efforts to come up with a treatment for Alzheimer's and other neurological disorders are leading to drugs that enhance memory and cognition in humans.

For drug makers, there's plenty of hurt in not knowing which drugs do what to whom and when.

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.

Giving patients drugs that are based on the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, known for their hallucinogenic properties, could help reboot the brains of people who suffer from mental illness and who are otherwise resistant to treatment.

Pot advocates argue that legalizing the drug eliminates the need for a black market and would likely reduce violence, since criminals would no longer control the marijuana trade.

We think they were Los Zetas, a drug cartel known for kidnapping wealthy foreign travelers.

In an angry letter back in 2015, Sen. Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican, demanded to know why Medicare was paying so much for the drug.

The investors are frustrated that shares in Jazz, a $ 9 billion pharmaceutical company known for its narcolepsy drug Xyrem, have remained essentially flat over the past year.

«As stewards of the taxpayer, we need to know why CMS continues to pay for this drug when Tricare and the nation's top insurance providers have severely restricted reimbursements for this drug,» Scott's letter said.

Before playing Barney Stinson on «How I Met You Mother,» Harris was mainly known for his role as the namesake child doctor on «Doogie Howser, MD.» But the raunchy, stripper - loving, drug - using alter ego he plays on «Harold & Kumar» banished all thoughts of Doogie.

Tied for the largest single donation to Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy, the campaign against the state's recreational marijuana proposal, was $ 500,000 from Insys Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company known for selling the painkiller fentanyl in the form of a sublingual spray.

Since he joined the drug trade as a teenager, Chapo swiftly rose through the ranks, building an almost mythic reputation: First, as a cold pragmatist known to deliver a single shot to the head for any mistakes made in a shipment, and later, as he began to establish the Sinaloa cartel, as a Robin Hood - like figure who provided much - needed services in the Sinaloa mountains, funding everything from food and roads to medical relief.

We are extremely happy to welcome Shoppers Drug Mart and its talented people, including their entrepreneurial and trusted Associate - owners, who are well - known for their patient care and friendly customer service.

Attorneys for McGowan said after the hearing that they were confident a jury would find no proof McGowan knew the drugs were in the wallet or had possession of the wallet when her plane landed in Virginia.

The «No» campaign argues that Prop 61 could actually lead to higher drug costs for many people, including veterans.

Even before media reports and a congressional hearing vilified Valeant Pharmaceuticals International for raising prices on a pair of lifesaving heart drugs, Dr. Umesh Khot knew something was very wrong.

The drug known by the street names Ecstasy or Molly could be a promising treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a new study.

Back in the drug - soaked, if not halcyon, days known at the sexual and drug revolution — the 1960's — many people were on a quest for the «perfect trip», and the «perfect hit of acid» (the drug lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD).

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.

Aura additionally announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted AU - 011 fast track designation for the treatment of primary ocular melanoma, also known as uveal or choroidal melanoma.

Encinitas - based Okogen has raised $ 10 million to test a drug originally developed for cancer to treat viral conjunctivitis, also known as pink eye.

On November 21st, a relatively small biotech company named Gilead Sciences (GILD) made headline news in the pharmaceutical investment community when it acquired a little - known hepatitis C drug developer named Pharmasset Inc. (VRUS), for $ 10.8 billion, in an all - cash deal.

My flat was in a city called Grigny, about 15 miles from the center of Paris, known for being one of the worst neighborhood in the country (violence, drugs...) that is why it is super cheap.

Ford's late brother, former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, was known for his struggles with alcohol and drugs.

However, lawsuits and allegations suggest that perhaps up to 80 % of Subsys prescriptions were being written for off - label indications, which is a no - no, and that Insys» sales team was being less than forthright in angling physicians toward the drugs» approved indication.

Rush Limbaugh is fat, does drugs, and is known for his bad behavior.

While in Brazil, the pope will visit one of the world's biggest shrines to the Virgin Mary, who is revered here; visit a hospital for recovering drug addicts; hear confessions from juvenile prisoners; and visit a slum known as a favela.

I'll have you know Rush WAS a strong advocate of tougher laws for drug addicts.

But Scalia surely knew that Janet Reno, the Attorney General in the Clinton Administration, had taken quite the opposite view — that nothing in the reigning statutes barred the State of Oregon from permitting drugs to be used by doctors for the purpose of procuring death for their patients.