Sentences with phrase «given by drugs companies»

Its aim, said Charles Medawar, cofounder of Social Audit, is to eradicate the «nanny knows best» attitude, by giving the public a right of access to the safety data given by drugs companies to the CSM.

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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.

The FDA's action cuts off a vital supply line for the company, given that the plant reportedly makes about 70 % of the ingredients that Ranbaxy uses to make its U.S. drugs, including the generic version of Lipitor taken by millions of Americans.

Little coverage is given to such grim statistics by governments or pharmaceutical companies, so patients and their doctors are not primed to be as vigilant as they should be, and adverse drug reactions (ADRs) remain seriously under - recognised and under - reported.

In an effort to strengthen her bones, Rubin gave her a growth factor called IGF - I — donated by a drug company because her insurance would not cover it — but the experiment had almost no measurable benefit.

Studying how genes affect different drugs manufactured by different companies gives Poirier greater influence on future drug development, he feels, which would not be possible if he was employed at any one pharmaceutical research lab.

There are hundreds of drug companies who would love to relieve you of your money (but not your symptoms) by giving you synthetic progesterone.

Not only has the information we have been given about fitness been untrue, most of it has been fabricated by greedy processed food manufacturers and drug companies in order to keep up us sick, sad, stupid and FAT.

Perhaps the most basic of medical applications for BlackBerry smartphones, mobile medical reference guides from software companies like QxMD and Epocrates Rx help promote patient safety by giving doctors and physicians immediate and simple access to information on specific drugs / narcotics, drug interactions, dosage recommendations and much more.

i was told by a local vet who volunteered at the free animal clinic which gives out cheapo vaccines that they actually made tons of money through selling flea treatments and could practically give away the rabies shots - only charging their cost from the drug company.

It also benefits already sick animals by giving them access to incredibly expensive treatment — sometimes over $ 100,000 — that their owners likely wouldn't have been able to afford, all at the expense of the pharmaceutical company testing the drug.

The high court is also unimpressed with the fact that the drug giving rise to the product liability was distributed by a California company, presumably because the cause of action in question in the case was brought against the manufacturer as a strict liability defective product claim, rather than as a claim against a seller of the product arising from a warranty that the product was free of defects arising under the Uniform Commercial Code or an express warranty.

The article talks about Ruth Lilly, the old reclusive woman who was heir to the Lilly drug company fortune, and who gave a big chunk of her billion dollars to Poetry magazine, which, galvanized so to speak by this influx, transmogrified into the Poetry Foundation.

He describes a lecture that he gave to about two thousand members of the American Medical Association during which he asked the physicians whether they felt that their medical judgments were affected by conflicts of interests with their hospital, drug manufacturers, insurance companies, medical device manufacturers or pharmaceutical sales representatives.