Sentences with phrase «funded by drug companies»

And the general problems of research funded by drug companies are real enough.

Until these review articles appeared, assumptions about the effectiveness of drugs were based only on published studies — ones which were largely funded by drug companies.

Although these facts do not mean that the results are invalid, a 2003 study published in the British Medical Journal suggests that trials funded by drug companies are more likely to report favorable results about their products than are trials funded by independent organizations.

Medical research must be funded in some way, and if it's funded by cosmetic companies, I honestly sometimes think that's better than it being funded by drug companies who push pill after pill regardless of the consequences.

Not exact matches

«We have an agreement with them where we own the drug, but anything that's funded by the U.S. government, it reserves the right to use that under certain circumstances,» says Mark Murray, president and CEO of the Burnaby, B.C., company.

Since it takes several rounds of discussions to understand something as complicated as drug development, this was a boon to fledgling biopharma companies, and VC funding in the space was booming by 2013.

He started MSMB Capital, a hedge fund company, in his 20s and drew attention for urging the Food and Drug Administration not to approve certain drugs made by companies whose stock he was shorting.

A newly formed company, it's funded by investors including the specialty drug company...

The FDA is suppose to monitor «research» on food and drugs and yet is largely funded by the pharmaceutical companies.

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The so - called «Pharma Bro,» notorious for raising the price of a potentially life - saving drug by 5,000 percent, was found guilty today of defrauding investors in two hedge funds and in Retrophin Inc., a pharmaceutical company he co-founded.

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Sen. Kirsten GillibrandKirsten Elizabeth GillibrandOvernight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — Trump hits federally funded clinics with new abortion restrictions Dem senators ask drug companies to list prices in ads Gillibrand to publish children's book about suffragists MORE (D - N.Y.) on Monday slammed the GOP for its «near silence» on sexual misconduct allegations against former Republican National Committee (RNC) finance chairman Steve Wynn.

Universities are particularly sensitive to university space, resources and / or faculty being involved in outside activities during their working hours, and also for potential conflicts of interest, in which your university research could be biased by receiving outside funding from an inappropriate source, as when a drug company has a vested interest in the outcome of your independent research.

Almost all of the trials included in the meta - analysis were funded in part by pharmaceutical companies, and some of the meta - analysis's co-authors have received honoraria from drug companies, too.

Geron was bigger and better funded than ACT, and it was the first company to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to test a therapy in humans based on embryonic stem (ES) cells.

Contrary to my paranoid suspicions, Mignot's study was funded not by drug companies but by two upstanding behemoths of American philanthropy, the Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute and the McKnight Foundation.

A 2003 survey, led by Scott Kim, an associate professor in the bioethics program at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, showed that if participants were told that a researcher or institution testing a treatment was being funded by the pharmaceutical company that made the drug, 40 percent would be more willing to participate — a finding Kim chalks up to an appreciation for up - front honesty.

The punishment, imposed in August but only made public today, is apparently the most severe reaction by NIH so far to a Senate investigation of NIH - funded researchers who may have failed to report all of their income from drug companies.

The odds are five times greater that a study sponsored by a drug company will support its own product than would a noncommercially funded study.

Earlier last year, the PharmBio Growth fund — which is managed by the Economic Development Board * (EDB)-- Chiron Corporation (USA), and Blue Dot Capital Pte Ltd jointly started the nation's first drug discovery company, S'Bio.

Goldhammer points out that all clinical trials are reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration and by the journals that publish them and that pharmaceutical companies require the researchers they support to state their sources of funding.

Today's proposal to increase those fees by $ 1 billion may not sound ominous in itself, but it implies an impending, equivalent cut to federal funding, says Steven Grossman, deputy executive director at the Alliance for a Stronger FDA in Washington, D.C.. That's an unrealistic expectation, he adds, because drug companies have already gone through negotiations and reached an agreement with FDA on user fee increases.

Drug companies help to spread the word about attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder — and the treatments they sell for it — by funding its high - profile patient advocacy group, Children and Adults with Attention - Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD).

The outcome is that more people who, like you, have improved their health and feel better will be scared into taking pills to make their numbers look «better» with better being defined by drug - company funded research.

It won't happen with the drug companies or the conventional mainstream doctors because there's — they're too entrenched with the pharmaceutical model and too funded by it.

[Biotechnology Value Fund] believe that AV - 411 is a high risk drug candidate that is best developed (if at all) by a larger company with greater financial resources and a lower cost of capital.

Sequoia staked its fate to the performance of Valeant Pharmaceuticals, a firm adored by hedge fund managers and Sequoia — which plowed over a third of its portfolio into the stock — for its singular strategy: buy small drug companies with successful niche medicines, then skyrocket the price of those drugs.

Sequoia Fund (SEQUX), the former top performer that's seen its reputation tarnished by an outsize position in troubled Valeant Pharmaceuticals International (VRX), dumped roughly half of its position in the drug company, filings show.

APA requires authors to reveal any possible conflict of interest in the conduct and reporting of research (e.g., financial interests in a test or procedure, funding by pharmaceutical companies for drug research).

It's synonymous to how some drug testing companies and doctor's are «funded» by pharmaceutical giants.