Sentences with phrase «if pharmaceutical companies»

I thought hey if pharmaceutical companies are interested, this must be good.

If a pharmaceuticals company — which might find 10 per cent of the undiscovered drugs — paid out all its profit to the owners, this would amount to only $ 1.32 a hectare.

So, if a pharmaceutical company creates an Alzheimer's drug to target memory based on research into one type of memory — the part of the brain responsible for finding missing objects, for example — but doesn't also have data on the type of memory that helps individuals remember the important people, places and things in their life, it runs the risk of producing a product that helps a person remember where they put the car keys, but not how they met their spouse.

If a pharmaceutical company loses any of its drug manufacturing right / permission because of a regulatory effect, then it will definitely affect the company's profit and hence, the stock price.

What if a pharmaceutical company developed a drug for veterinary (or human) use that powerfully improved immune function, acted as a potent antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and antibiotic, promoted liver detoxification, enhanced brain function, lowered blood pressure and improved blood glucose regulation?

The defensive protection is less controversial, where advocates of traditional knowledge protection are trying to stop people from acquiring IP rights over traditional knowledge — for example, if a pharmaceutical company goes into an indigenous community, learns about the use of a certain plant for treatment of disease, does a little more research, and then patents the knowledge.

If a pharmaceutical company attempts to hide a drug's dangerous side effects, this can be grounds for a product liability lawsuit.

Not exact matches

«And as long as that happens, your insurance company is not going to pay your bill if you take a drug and the pharmaceuticals are not going to develop the drugs because if nobody is going to pay for their use, why spend the money on that?»

Supplies of thousands of medicines are at risk of disruption if Britain leaves the European Union without a trade deal, European pharmaceutical companies warned on Thursday.

Sproxil now sells the MPA solution directly to pharmaceutical companies and other brand owners, supplying coded labels (or simply the codes, if the manufacturers control their own printing facilities) and overseeing product verification on its servers.

While consumers have every right to be skeptical of pharmaceutical companies» profit motives, if natural remedies actually cured cancer, then people would not be dying of cancer.

And if they don't trust Trump, they're going to be more reluctant to make concessions to US demands, which could include things like forcing Japan to import more US cars or agreements on patent laws that benefit US pharmaceutical companies.

If you're looking for a viable healthcare company to add to your portfolio, you might want to do your research on Vanda Pharmaceuticals.

It is hard to believe, for example, that Canada could not in the end find common ground with the US on some extension of patent protection for pharmaceuticals, since it was able to do so in the just - completed negotiations with the EU, or that an extension of the term of copyright protection from 50 to 70 years from the agreed baseline would have much if any real practical impact on Canada although it would be seen as a gain by the US given the heavy copyright portfolios of US entertainment companies, allowing them an additional period of time to exploit their copyrighted content.

If successfully completed, the transaction would combine two of the world's fastest - growing specialty pharmaceutical companies, with annual revenues expected to top $ 15 billion by 2015.

However, if there's a company with Nike - like return potential in the works, I believe it to be budding biotech stock Ligand Pharmaceuticals.

If a person is an employee of an pharmaceutical company but no longer believes in and can no longer with good conscience work for the company, then it would only make sense for her to move on.

So if statin cholesterol - lowering drugs are part of the problem in causing Alzheimer's Disease, can we really expect that pharmaceutical companies will be able to develop drugs to cure Alzheimer's?

It is so medicinal that if I could bottle up into a pill, the pharmaceutical companies...

«Look at who's funding every study: If it's a pharmaceutical company, don't even read it — it's propaganda.»

If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd believe that we were intentionally screwing up sleep early to ensure that we have enough patients for doctors and pharmaceutical companies alike.

If people (and, perhaps more importantly, their insurers) are willing to pay high prices for pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical companies will charge high prices for their products in the US.

Can not help but wonder if Cadet Bonespurs call for death penalty for «drug dealers» will be applied to the pharmaceutical companies that intentionally cause high levels of addiction based upon their greed?

Business Secretary Vince Cable has opened the door to a possible Government intervention if US firm Pfizer bids to take over British - Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.

«We have spent millions of dollars to combat the problem through law enforcement, treatment and prevention, and if those efforts have been unfairly impacted by the improper practices of pharmaceutical companies and others, we owe it to the tax payers to leave no stone unturned in recovering any unjustified costs.»

Common Cause says the Moreland Commission should open a probe to see if there's a link between around $ 5 million spent by major pharmaceutical companies on lobbying and campaign donations to New York state politicians, and the failure to pass major consumer - friendly bills regulating Big Pharma.

Other reforms Hawkins is calling for include a windfall tax on pharmaceutical companies» opioid wealth, a surtax on high - dollar pass - through income from LLCs and other pass - through vehicles, a clawback of the new federal tax cuts if not used to increase workers» pay, home rule for local income taxes, and tax credit «circuit breakers» to protect low - to - moderate income tenants and homeowners from unaffordable rents and property taxes.

If you studied a technical field, there are also opportunities to become a scientific or medical writer within a pharmaceutical or biotechnology company.

If the treatment is safe and even moderately effective, they say they would consider partnering with a pharmaceutical company to help take the program forward — although they are still working out their plan.

If Tash and colleagues can demonstrate to the FDA that the drug is safe and well tolerated, that might pique the interest of pharmaceutical companies to handle the final stages of testing and to take the drug to market.

So through contacts at AstraZeneca I was given the incredible opportunity to meet a whole range of people at that pharmaceutical company, so that I could find out what they were doing and see if anything grabbed my interest.

If you look at the research budget of [an average] pharmaceutical company, it dwarfs the research budgets of all of the service and research tool providers put together.»

In February, Rigel licensed its drug to AstraZeneca, a pharmaceutical company headquartered in London, for $ 100 million upfront, to be followed by up to $ 1.2 billion if the drug meets developmental milestones.

«If a cosmetics company wants to add a new fragrance to its products or a pharmaceutical company needs to change the active ingredients of a drug, they need to add new chemical compounds,» Grier explains.

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.

When they released all their datasets, Todd's team found new collaborators and friendly interest from pharmaceutical companies — input they were unlikely to have received if they had followed traditional publication practices.

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.

If a biologist happens to have knowledge related to a target area that interests pharmaceutical companies, says French, «That person will be in great demand, but the therapeutic target du jour varies.»

If you have already specialised in a particular field, it would be worth approaching pharmaceutical companies that produce drugs in your area.

According to Lisa Conte, founder of Shaman Pharmaceuticals, which supported the treaty even in Rio, the new interpretation «gave those companies the confidence that if they are working in these countries they will have patent protection».

«If you talk to people in a large pharmaceutical company about it, they would say you are nuts,» Seder says.

THE distinguished American botanist and Amazonian ethnologist, Darren Posey, now based at the University of Oxford, has been leading a campaign to allocate intellectual property rights to indigenous people if their folklore is helpful to modern medicine and if the plants they collect to cure ailments are exploited by Western pharmaceutical companies.

Even if the cost is as low as Hayward claims, Sachleben agrees that adoption will likely be the biggest obstacle — pharmaceutical companies might have to conduct safety experiments or even clinical trials, after which they would only be able to add the tags to solid pills and not sprays or liquids to adhere to the FDA guideline.

If numerous researchers are prepared to put their names on a paper prepared by a pharmaceutical company, without having seen the data, the scientific community needs to have an open discussion on whether that's behaviour they'll accept.

Merck and the Wellcome Trust call the new center a «first of its kind» and if one looks at the specifics of this union between a major pharmaceutical company and major philanthropy, that's true, agrees Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

If you want to license your cancer research to a pharmaceutical company, you may have to show your badge as evidence that the investment won't evaporate.

But testing two experimental drugs in a clinical trial is forbidden, and even if it weren't, it would be tricky to get two pharmaceutical companies to hop into human testing together.

But while insurers stand to save plenty of money if less women got lymphedema after breast cancer, unlike when new cancer drugs hit the market, exercise offers no immediate profit prospects for pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies — and no multi-million dollar advertising campaign advising patients to query their doctors about it.

However, if stress and the inflammation that it causes do not lead to cancer, one would have to wonder why the billion dollar pharmaceutical companies are betting on the relationship.

I DO NOT advocate vaping as anything «recreational», but a very effective way to get away from cigarettes IF you have that issue, but they can not be advertised as such because they would then become medical devices that could fall into the hands the pharmaceutical companies... which to me is almost as scary as smoking!