The association's 37 members include the biggest and best -
known drug companies including Johnson & Johnson, Celgene, Merck, Pfizer, Eli Lilly and Amgen.
Not exact matches
But when they broached the idea of developing such a vaccine with
drug companies, nearly all of them said, «
No, thank you very much, but we're not interested,» recalls Schiller in a Lasker Foundation interview.
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.
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.
«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.
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.
Pfizer (pfe), and at least one major newspaper, got fooled by a fake press release claiming the
company would
no longer increase the prices of its
drugs.
Not only does the
company provide prescription
drug plans to businesses nationwide, but it does so on a transparent fee basis — every client
knows exactly where his or her money goes.
«It's hard to
know what incentives will work for the pharmaceutical
companies to increase
drug production,» said the University of Utah's Fox.
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.
Yes, investors get to choose which
drugs and
companies to fund, but who says they
know more about what to fund than those who are actually in the industry.
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.
But now that the Sanofi (snynf)
drug is
no longer on the market — the
company recalled its entire supply last fall, and has since abandoned it — Mylan is looking to ditch contracts that constrained EpiPen's price.
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.
But you probably
know Mr. Shkreli from his
company Turing Pharmaceuticals's outrageous increasing of prices on a
drug that helps people with compromised immune systems fight parasitic infections.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Massachusetts, accuses the
companies of exploiting the country's opaque
drug - pricing system in a way that benefits themselves and the intermediaries
known as pharmacy benefit managers.
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.
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.
Drug companies also have been busy making sure that lawmakers
know how they feel.
The fact is that we have whole industries employing the most advanced scientific and psychological skills to promote institutionalized deceit, not only the advertising and public relations industry, but manufacturers who rely on deceptive packaging and planned obsolescence, and the
drug companies who promote
drugs before they
know what the side effects may be.
She said «oh
no, we would never give that kind of information to a
drug company.»
On November 8, Targacept, a
drug company based in Winston - Salem, North Carolina, announced that TC - 5214 had performed
no better than placebo in one of four phase III trials.
«These
companies might have the next big
drug, but they might not
know it.»
You
know, that's the way cancer research works in this country too, where the federal government sponsors the initial research and then the pharmaceutical
companies take advantage of what's been learned through
drug screenings and they go and develop the
drugs for profit.
An American who buys golf clubs abroad and doesn't want to declare them can send them via a
company that packs them in a shipping container, which then slips them into port without ever being seen by customs agents; the ability of
drug dealers to bypass even the most elaborate border controls is a well -
known problem.
Eye injections of the
drug Avastin, used to treat retinal diseases, bring
no greater risk of endophthalmitis, a potentially blinding eye infection, than injections with the much more expensive
drug Lucentis made by the same
company, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Even before they
knew the actual identity of -LRB-- secretase,
drug companies had already been developing compounds that block the enzyme's activity; but now that researchers have actual secretase enzymes in hand, they can look for more specific and powerful inhibitors.
«Someone might not think twice about enrolling themselves into a clinical trial if it's with a well -
known company and
drug.
A
company called Pharmasset had been looking at a group of
drugs known as nucleotide analogues, which met some of these criteria, since the mid-2000s.
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.
That can be hard to do if, for example, officials did not
know that a
company changed the formulation of a particular
drug.
Here's what we
know so far about the trial, the
company, the
drug and the friendship between copper and the mutant huntingtin protein.
They were financed by Advanced Cell Technology, a biotech
company with laboratories in Marlborough, Massachusetts, that recently won approval from the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration to test the treatment in 24 patients suffering from either dry advanced macular degeneration, or a juvenile form of the disease
known as Stargardt's.
The Affordable Care Act (also
known as Obamacare) mandates
drug treatment services and disallows insurance
companies from considering addiction a preexisting condition.
Drug companies have been attacking vitamins and supplements for over 25 years that I
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This
no doubt reflects
drug company control over NIH research dollars.
Drug companies have been
known to do this in order to get FDA approval.
I like him ok, but at the end of the day even most endo's
know very little about diet and nutrition and are just
drug company sales people.
And, naturally, the
drug companies don't want you to
know that part of the science because it would severely limit the number of people going on cholesterol - lowering
drugs, since statins do not modulate the size of the particles.
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What most people
know as «vitamin C» is actually industrially produced synthetic ascorbic acid — made by
drug companies.
Plus, I'll let you in on a secret that the
drug companies don't want you to
know about.
Did you ever stop and consider the possibility of the
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A woman diagnosed with ulcerative colitis received a $ 10.5 million award for pain and suffering in a lawsuit filed against the
company, and was awarded $ 78,500 for medical expenses after her attorneys proved the
company knew of a potential risk of IBD from Accutane, and failed to report it to the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA).
«I
know of no other way to do this kind of study,» says Cacioppo, who likened the situation to medical researchers working with
drug companies to conduct costly research.
This is not unlike the pharmaceutical
companies that appear to sit around dreaming up new ailments that their miracle
drugs might cure — ailments that people often didn't even
know they had until they learned about them on TV or the internet.