Sentences with phrase «more pharmaceutical drugs»

The problem with a more sensible approach to health matters including a more natural way of life is that it is diametrically opposed to the goals and aims of the medical - pharmaceutical establishment which revolve around selling ever more pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines for the sake of ever increasing profits.

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In the past few years companies like Braeburn Pharmaceuticals, Intarcia Therapeutics, and Proteus Digital Health have set out to create better medical mousetraps through devices that make existing drugs more effective.

Rather than building more big box stores to sell grocery, health, and beauty products under one roof, Loblaw will be able to use urban - friendly Shoppers locations to offer its President's Choice brand items while the drug stores continue to sell pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.

Valeant has been at the center of a political firestorm over prescription medication costs and pharmaceutical companies, which depend more on acquiring or licensing existing therapies (and then raising their prices) rather than fueling R&D into new drugs.

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.

Aurora Cannabis was up 2.5 % in early Wednesday trading; the U.K.'s GW Pharmaceuticals, which is vying for the first Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved cannabis - based medicine in the U.S., rose more than 2 %; Canada's MedReleaf spiked 4 % while Aprhia had a more modest 1 % rise.

If you haven't followed this story, you'll remember Shkreli from his fame two years ago, when his biotech firm, Turing Pharmaceuticals, acquired the patent to a drug used to treat malaria, cancer and aids, and jacked up the retail price by more than 5,000 percent.

Admitting that «drug prices are too high,» Wichmann pointed to UnitedHealth's efforts to make pharmaceuticals more affordable for everyday consumers through point - of - service discounts.

Lawmakers and regulators (and presidential hopefuls) have been ramping up their scrutiny of drug pricing practices amid several flagrant instances of alleged price gouging (see Turing Pharmaceuticalsand Valeant), and consumer advocates are becoming more vocal about the price of even generic pharmaceuticals.

Concerns that a Hillary Clinton administration would impose greater price regulation on drug companies had put a damper on pharmaceutical stocks for more than a year.

Today, more than 15,000 people have taken Lactagen, an over-the-counter derivative of the formula Ritter cooked up, and his company, Ritter Pharmaceuticals, is about to launch trials for a prescription drug to treat lactose intolerance — an endeavor that can cost upward of $ 50 million before the FDA gives its OK.

While exorbitant drug price hikes by Martin Shkreli's Turing Pharmaceuticals and Valeant have sparked outrage in Washington and tanked the stock prices of much of the pharmaceutical sector in the last six months, there's growing evidence that the controversy may be more smoke than fire.

It's not technology or regulation or any complex system that is blocking more aggressive drug development in the almost half a trillion - dollar U.S. pharmaceutical industry, health executives in the room seemed to agree.

U.S. drugmaker Turing Pharmaceuticals, led at the time by hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli, caused outrage last year by raising the U.S. price of Daraprim, an old anti-infective drug, by more than 5,000 % to $ 750 a pill.

Agios Pharmaceuticals shares plunged more than 18 percent after the company discontinued development of an experimental drug for rare blood disorder due to side effects seen in a study.

Much of the problem, Miller explained, is that Americans are already shouldering more than their fair share of pharmaceutical companies» costs: While the U.S, accounts for only 4.6 % of the total world population, it makes up about 40 % of the world's drug spending, and the bulk of pharma companies» profits, he said.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx) said Monday that it agreed to sell Sprout back to its former shareholders, but the deal is actually more of a giveaway: All Valeant will receive in return for Sprout is 6 % of future sales of the female libido drug, starting around mid-2019, plus freedom from its remaining acquisition obligations and its legal fight with Sprout shareholders.

She directed the launch of more than 20 new pharmaceutical drugs.

Ionis Pharmaceuticals» mission is to develop safe and effective RNA - targeting drugs for both rare and more prevalent diseases and providing those drugs to the broadest group of patients as quickly as possible.

Specialty pharmaceuticals have contributed substantially to the rise in the nation's drug costs over the last several years, and these costs are projected to increase by more than 65 % by the end of 2017.

Major pharmaceuticals firms also engage in research and development, but tend to focus more on manufacturing and marketing an existing portfolio of drugs than the typical biotech firm.

Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli is now stating that he wishes he'd raised the price on the AIDS drug Daraprim by more than the 5000 % that made him the object of scorn worldwide.

Ionis Pharmaceuticals will get $ 30 million upfront, along with the potential for hundreds of millions more, in a drug licensing deal with pharma giant AstraZeneca.

Learn more about how pharmaceutical companies price drugs, why prices are often very high and why it can be difficult to settle on a suitable price.

Remicade is a widely used autoimmune disease drug, and until recently it accounted for more than 15 % of J&J's pharmaceutical revenue.

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ACAD) faded 24 percent Monday after CNN exposed the deaths of more than 700 Nuplazid patients since the drug's June 2016 launch.

Turing Pharmaceuticals AG, the drugmaker that raised the price of an anti-infective drug Daraprim by more than 5,000 percent, suggested that it won't cut the drug's list price, instead offering to negotiate discounts with hospitals.

Douglas Loe, healthcare equity analyst with Echelon Wealth Partners, brings more than a decade of experience to financial analysis in the global drug development, medical technology, healthcare services and specialty pharmaceutical sectors.

Arena Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ARNA) said that its Belviq weight loss drug will be available to more people following an agreement with CVS Caremark.

The investigation is tied to his large stake in Canadian drug company Valeant Pharmaceuticals, which has been facing more - and - more problems it seems each day.

The drug Daraprim gained international attention when a 32 - year - old pharmaceutical CEO purchased its rights, and raised its price more than 5,000 % to $ 750 per pill.

Recreational «drug» use such as is currently allowed by law here in the U.S. puts upon the general populace many social discords that have tendencies to demoralize the individual welfares thereby lowering the nation's social wellbeing... Synthetically made pharmaceutical drugs can not replace naturally occurring drugs and such synthetics are apt to be more harmful and way more addictive than the naturally occurring ones.

The lavender pills have been studied to be more effective than pharmaceutical anti-anxiety drugs and as a bonus they help you sleep!

They found that the unique coconut oil antioxidants reduced inflammation associated with arthritis more effectively than current pharmaceutical drugs.

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Hypnobirthing teaches the mother to relax and believe that her body is perfectly designed to give birth; when the mother is relaxed her body can release natural painkillers that are far more effective than pharmaceutical drugs.

Trump's long - awaited plan to bring down drug prices, unveiled Friday, will mostly spare the pharmaceutical industry he previously accused of «getting away with murder» and instead focus on increasing private competition and requiring more openness about costs.

An intricate tale of «medicine, monopoly and malice», Fire in the Blood tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low - cost Aids drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south in the years after 1996 — causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths — and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back.

Many thousands more papers remain sealed as part of ongoing lawsuits brought by more than 14,000 women against the drug maker Wyeth, which was bought last year by the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, based in New York.

Identifying the chemicals and networks that catalyze remission in type 2 diabetes would be a far more transformative advance, since it would help lead pharmaceutical companies toward new anti-diabetes drugs.

He pointed to the sudden rise in share prices for pharmaceutical firms working on Ebola vaccines as one type of economic spur to ensure that medicines are there in an emergency, along with WHO's capacity to «prequalify» drugs as safe and effective so that they can be sold more cheaply and widely.

Instead of systematically testing the effects of known compounds — the pharmaceutical industry's basic model for more than a century — scientists can now investigate backward, combing through genomic data to find links between specific genotypes and diseases and then screening drug data to identify therapeutic candidates.

As the pharmaceutical industry's blockbuster drugs fall off the patent cliff, with precious few drugs in the pipeline to replace them, there are signs that big pharma could turn more of its attention to biologically derived medicines.

But as more cash poured in — $ 100 million from Alexion Pharmaceuticals to pursue rare diseases, $ 100 million from Merck for a set of antiviral drugs — the image of Bancel as a brash newcomer with a crisp suit and an audacious pitch became part of the company's mystique.

«This could transform pharmaceutical drug discovery into biopharmaceutical drug discovery with much more effort.»

«The vaccine arena is just incredibly difficult; on the other hand, there have been huge strides with more effective drugs,» says Graham Allaway, a research scientist and founder of Panacos Pharmaceuticals.

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.

I worked in metabolic disease drug discovery in the pharmaceutical industry for more than 22 years.

As well, pharmaceutical companies are looking for new ways to address their two - pronged pipeline problem: many big - name blockbuster drugs will soon lose their patents and, perhaps more important, there is a dearth of new blockbusters headed to the market.

A team of researchers found that D.C. - based health care providers who got gifts — including cash, meals and ownership interests — from pharmaceutical companies prescribed more drugs per patient, wrote more expensive prescriptions and were more likely to recommend brand names.