Sentences with phrase «like big pharma»

In this way, the cosmetic and personal care industry works much like Big Pharma, using its products to generate repeat business by keeping people trapped in a cycle of symptoms requiring yet another product to treat.

Like big pharma, they promise to treat your diabetes with a pill, some even calling them magic pills (read snake oil).

It is hard to get good information, because just like big pharma, big supplement companies have an agenda — and its to make money by selling their products.

Not exact matches

For instance, legislators like Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Jeff Merkley of Oregon recently warned that Cures amounts to a big pharma giveaway which will weaken regulatory standards on drugs, provide a mere pittance to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and do nothing to confront the rising tide of high drug prices.

The «microbiome,» or the collection of organisms that reside within the human body (especially the gut), has become a big new interest area for a number of major pharma companies like Merck and smaller biotechs alike.

For one, big pharma's supply chain is a global enterprise with global ambitions, and manufacturing is cheaper in countries like India and China.

Imagine you don't like the way your physician is imposing his view of the world for you, and worry that his view is unduly influenced by the the marketing dollars of big pharma.

As big firms in sectors like pharma increasingly fret over the overhead of internal skunkworks, says Tam, they are drawn to the «unbelievable» potential cost - savings of the open approach.

And Big Pharma names like Merck, Sanofi, and Astra - Zeneca, are already taking it to the lab.

The President - elect bashed Big Pharma, and failed to provide clarity on the details or timing of policies like infrastructure spending, tax reform and other measures dear to traders» hearts.

But Apple and other Big Tech corporations like Google and Amazon — along with much of Big Pharma and even Starbucks — have avoided paying hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes on their worldwide earnings because they don't mainly sell physical things like cars or refrigerators or television sets that they make here and ship abroad.

And big players like J&J have been successful in stalling the competition through a framework of deals with the companies managing pharma benefits in the US.

Last night when I first viewed the ad and steam poured out of my ears, I went to bed mumbling things like «idiotic mainstream media marketing» and «typical Big Pharma baloney» and other things that are best left self - censored.

For example, if you and your fellow postdocs would like to learn about career opportunities in industry and biotech, you'll need to invite a variety of companies focusing on areas ranging from clinical trials to biotech start - ups to big pharma.

Like other big pharma companies, Pfizer is partnering with academic institutions to share the risk of drug development and take advantage of academic scientists» broad base of knowledge, says Boston - based Anthony Coyle, vice president of the Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI) at Pfizer.

Like many successful biotechs, CAT was snapped up by a big pharma company last year.

«This allows the company to experience the individual and the individual gets a taste to see what it's like in biotech or big pharma.»

Conclusion: Big Pharma spends hundreds of millions of $ $ $ funding research to cast doubt on the effectiveness of natural weight loss products like Garcinia Cambogia.

Bis - phosphonates, such as Boniva and Fosmax aren't the magic pill that Big Pharma would like you to believe.

James started his career as an investment banker, but he had studied health economics, which is a really interesting field because we're looking at not just economics but we're looking at how do people spend their money to live longer, and feel better, and to stay well, and decided after a year in banking that he wanted to work with integrative medicine or functional medicine, and he founded something called Evolution of Medicine, which is an eCommerce platform that lets doctors manage their practices better with customized tools and things like that so they can become more functional doctors, just to make it easier for the transition to come from basically a trained representative of Big Pharma.

That's the best we can do as the FDA is too bogged down with issues like the dairy industry trying to sneak sugar into milk without labeling it and the constant craziness with Big Pharma — I have friends who do or have worked there, there's no «extra» money for the FDA to go around figuring out exactly what all the compounds in a glass of milk do inside your body.

I don't want to sound like I am against the medical field because I know lots of really smart doctors know and preach the truth and that aren't addicted to the prescription drug pushing machine of Big Pharma.

The Loncar Cancer Immunotherapy ETF (CNCR / Nasdaq) focuses on 30 pharma and biotech stocks, including big names like Merck and many you won't recognize.

And like «Big Pharma,» the pet food industry is often demonized by those who wish to promote unscientific or alternative veterinary medical treatments or theories.

Like any truly good management game Big Pharma succeeded in turning me into a cold, calculating boss intent on max efficiency and profit over all else.

That is why big - pharma hires lots of biochemists and molecular biologists and the like to do research, and that's why your family doctor might give you a free sample of some new drug.

The way the pharmaceutical business model works now, «big pharma» does not recruit new staff when projects like these come along, but rather, approaches trusted research organisations like ours, or small biotechs that are already set up to hit the ground running.

In response, doctors have put more and more restrictions on visits by pharma reps, resulting in a sales - force ineffectiveness that's caused big pharma companies like Eli Lilly, Merck, and Pfizer to lay off sales reps by the thousands, with more to come.

But I saw it recently, and it's a little like watching a train wreck: this woman wrote a book called Big Pharma's Sexy Little Secret about how (and it's possible I've missed everything there is to see here...) pharmaceutical companies purposely hire «cheerleader» types so that they can use sex — or the idea of it, anyway — to manipulate doctors into buying more of their product.