Sentences with phrase «most pharmaceutical drugs»

Most pharmaceutical drugs have evolved through the powerful active constituents in herbs, something that surprises many people.

Unlike most pharmaceutical drugs, Turkey tail also showed no negative side effects in the study.

«The therapeutic doses are less than a nanogram per kilogram of body weight - compared to milligram - per - kilogram concentrations needed for most pharmaceutical drugs.»

Not exact matches

The company's $ 150 million settlement agreement was the largest and most severe of its kind involving a drug wholesaler, or any member of the pharmaceutical supply chain over violations of the Controlled Substances Act.

On average, the 30 large and small pharmaceutical and biotech companies IDEA Pharma examined got just 11 % of their 2017 revenue from drugs developed within the past five years, says Mike Rea, the firm's CEO and one of the most insightful people I've met — no exaggeration — when it comes to pinpointing innovation choke points in the drug industry.

FORTUNE — One of America's most far - seeing companies, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, the biopharmaceutical startup so memorably chronicled in journalist Barry Werth's classic book, The Billion Dollar Molecule: The Quest for the Perfect Drug, is back.

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis has made waves with a drug pipeline that includes one of the most talked - about experimental cancer therapies in recent years — a treatment called Kymriah that reconfigures the body's own immune cells to become aggressive blood - cancer killers.

Acthar reimbursements have been severely restricted by most large pharmaceutical companies and Tricare has discontinued reimbursements for this drug.

While most of the attention on pharmaceutical prices has been on new drugs for diseases like cancer, hepatitis C and high cholesterol, there is also growing concern about huge price increases on older drugs, some of them generic, that have long been mainstays of treatment.

Exercise, even very little of it at a time, appears to slow aging at the cellular level — so much so that, if it could be bottled as a drug, it would be the most successful pharmaceutical ever developed.

Interviews with former Sprout employees, analysts, investors and doctors who helped bring the drug to market suggest how a series of missteps after the deal, along with turbulence from aggressive accounting practices, unusual business relationships and big egos, derailed one of the most intriguing new pharmaceuticals in a generation.

Generally, most experts discourage people from flushing drugs down the toilet, as federal and local surveys have found trace pharmaceuticals in drinking water in 30 states and Chicago.

Sanders is one of the most outspoken members of the Democratic caucus against high drug prices and the pharmaceutical industry.

«A civil war has broken out among the most powerful players in the pharmaceutical industry — including brand - name and generic drug makers, and even your local pharmacists — with each blaming others for the rising price of medicine.»

Zhi Hong, Ribapharm's vice president of drug discovery, said, «From the pharmaceutical industry point of view, I see immunotherapy as the most exciting aspect of immunology.»

I promptly chose to go into clinical pharmacy — the most exciting application of pharmaceutical knowledge — helping patients in the hospital maximize the effects of the drugs they are prescribed while minimizing the potential side effects.

As that comment indicates, many of the most promising opportunities in pharmaceuticals will involve the post-discovery phases of drug creation.

In his role as researcher, he developed a potential drug to treat different types of immune diseases and was able to accompany the molecule through the next stages?something most scientists at pharmaceutical companies are not able to do.

Of the $ 2,836,088 in «direct public support» the NSF received in 2005 (the most recent IRS disclosure I could find), it seems that $ 470,000 came from Pfizer, which in 2005 was primping for the debut of the sleep - aid drug Indiplon, which it has since dropped; $ 299,000 came from GlaxoSmithKline, makers of Sominex; $ 152,000 from King Pharmaceuticals (Sonata); $ 596,670 from Sanofi Aventis (Ambien); $ 471,800 from Takeda Pharmaceuticals (Rozerem); $ 133,183 from Sepracor (Lunesta); $ 100,000 from the hepcats over at Jazz Pharmaceuticals, who make the narcolepsy drug Xyrem; and $ 100,000 from Cephalon, maker of another drug used for narcolepsy, Provigil.

This year, its pharmaceutical division scored a major hit with the arthritis drug Celebrex, whose launch became the most successful ever.

Over its history, Celgene has made a number of diverse acquisitions to expand its portfolio of cancer drugs, most recently purchasing Abraxane maker Abraxis Pharmaceuticals in 2010.

For instance, pharmaceutical companies will most likely continue to generate more lucrative cures for hypertension and high cholesterol, even though existing drugs work well, and ignore other disorders that lack effective drugs.

Most researchers expected that the large lakes would dilute pharmaceuticals quickly, but a study this summer found the drugs contaminating Lake Michigan two miles from Milwaukee sewage outfalls.

Given how much money there is in the industry, it is not surprising that biotech is most prominent in drug discovery and pharmaceuticals.

Sulfamethoxazole, an antibiotic used to treat urinary tract infections, and carbamazepine, a drug used to treat seizures, nerve pain, and bipolar disorder, were among the most common pharmaceuticals detected.

That's part of the reason that most drugs that work in animals don't work in people — only 11 % of oncology compounds that show promise in mice are ever approved for humans — despite billions of dollars spent by pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

«IKKs are one of the most heavily sought after drug targets today, because pharmaceutical companies want safe and effective medications to treat the pain of arthritis, now that the safety of COX - 2 inhibitors, like Celebrex and Vioxx, have been called into question,» says Salk researcher Vinay Tergaonkar who was involved in the zebrafish study.

Every pharmaceutical drug has side effects, and fatigue is one of the most common.

Most people who depend on the drug epinephrine to treat potentially fatal allergic reactions (whether their own, a child's, or a loved one's) are well aware of the price - gouging scandal surrounding Mylan Pharmaceuticals» EpiPen.

Every pharmaceutical drug has side effects and one of the most common side effects that I see is fatigue.

But what most people may not know, is that some of the most powerful pharmaceutical drugs on the market, are made from plant extracts or based on natural, nutritional compounds.

Psoriatic Arthritis Treatment Psoriatic arthritis drug treatment is common, the conventional treatment of the arthritis symptoms of psoriatic arthritis is most always based on pharmaceutical drugs.

There are several possible reasons some pharmaceutical drugs may increase weight gain, but the most common is that they reduce the body's fat - burning abilities.

In fact, modulations of the immune system using pharmaceutical drugs such as different injectable interferon beta formulations and corticosteroids are the most widely used therapies that are prescribed for patients with relapsing - remitting multiple sclerosis.

When the most powerful actives are removed from plants to create pharmaceutical drugs, other plant constituents were discarded.

What is most remarkable about the more recent study is not that turmeric curcuminoids have potent anti-inflammatory properties — there are already hundreds of studies confirming its COX - 2 reducing and otherwise anti-inflammary effects — but rather how much safer they are relative to NSAID drugs like diclofenac, which like most pharmaceutical anti-inflammatory drugs have been linked to adverse health effects such as increased cardiac mortality, miscarriage and seizure.

Most follow through, but some want it resolved quickly but that's impossible, especially when they present with over a dozen pharmaceutical drugs they have been prescribed.

The trouble is, most public water supplies are loaded with hazardous contaminants, such as disinfection byproducts (DBPs), fluoride, and pharmaceutical drugs, to name just a few.

One reason that most people are in the dark about the dangers of pharmaceutical drugs is due to a fundamental misunderstanding of how these drugs get tested and approved.

The Alzheimer's Association is seen by most as simply a «front group» for pharmaceutical companies who want to develop drugs to treat Alzheimer's.

Because of their categorization as a dietary supplement by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), most multivitamins sold in the U.S. are not required to undergo the testing procedures typical of pharmaceutical drugs.

Unfortunately, most people who suffer with anxiety either do nothing or resort to pharmaceutical drugs — many of which are ineffective and capable of destroying your health and sanity further.

This plastic can be found in items like tomato sauce bottles, plastic straws, pharmaceutical drug containers, some carpet and most plastic bottle caps.

Dr. Campbell is passionate about removing unnecessary pharmaceutical drugs, enhancing the body's own self - healing capacity and allowing the most graceful aging process that optimal nutrition, supplements, and exercise can provide.

In the pharmaceutical world, the lipid theory of heart disease spawned the most profitable drugs of all time, statin drugs, designed to artificially lower cholesterol, a substance needed in our body and without which life would be impossible.

I strongly suspect that this is because statins do not influence particle size, and many if not most medical «studies» are funded by the pharmaceutical industry to sell drugs.

It's why there are, you know, that's why even if I do not feel that our government should not be controlling drugs and pharmaceuticals per se, you know it's the reason for President Bush I believe it was, who signed it, the anabolic steroid control act, in the process that really controlled a lot of these pro hormones from getting distributed willingly you know, over here in America because they can be so dangerous and most of them, if you're gonna order them you got ta go over to like world-pharma.org and order them from the European Union just because they're more available over there so if you wan na order like Andro or any of these pro hormones, something like that, usually you're gonna be getting it from Europe.

Diabetes and glucose drugs: One of the reasons that pharmaceutical methods of treating diabetes have been so unsuccessful is because of their limited approach — nearly all diabetes drugs target one (or at most, a few) of the primary symptoms of diabetes, without actually addressing underlying causes.

Most municipal water supplies contain chlorine, fluoride, heavy metals, and even residues from pharmaceutical drugs.

It's true that we've been using pharmaceutical drugs or prescription drugs for most of our lives.