Sentences with phrase «of access to drugs»

Humane Canada acknowledges that for reasons of limited financial resources and lack of access to drugs or to veterinarians, many shelters are unable to use this controlled substance.

This announcement goes some way towards addressing the hugely emotive issue of access to drugs.

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In adopting its Cannabis Equity Program, the City of Oakland made a clear commitment to ensure access and equity in legal cannabis for communities most negatively impacted by the drug war.

The chairman of Apotex, the largest producer of generic drugs in Canada, came under fire recently for helping to organize a $ 500 - per - ticket pay - for - access fundraiser for the party.

May 1 - Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi will cut the net price of their expensive cholesterol drug for Express Scripts customers in exchange for greater patient access, with some savings to be shared with consumers, the companies said on Tuesday.

But sales of Praluent and a rival Amgen drug, with list prices of more than $ 14,000 a year before discounts, have been severely constrained by onerous roadblocks to patient access by insurers.

But sales of Praluent and a rival Amgen drug, with list prices of more than $ 14,000 a year before discounts, have been constrained by onerous roadblocks to patient access by insurers.

Its positions in Southern California, the Chicago region, the Northeast, as well as Florida place it within large population centers, which, according to the DEA, gives it access to «potential high density drug markets that TCOs will look to exploit through the street - level drug distribution activities of urban organized crime groups / street gangs.»

Last month, the professional group updated its stance, saying it had growing concerns over what it calls a «lack of clinical oversight» in the use of medical marijuana if pharmacies don't play a «front - line role» in providing access to the drug.

Meanwhile, it orchestrated deals with Genentech and Pfizer, giving them access to parts of its DNA database in exchange for upfront payments and a cut of revenue from new drugs developed using it.

The case has echoes of WhatsApp's repeated blockage in Brazil, where prosecutors were frustrated by their inability to access the private messages of a suspect in a major drug case.

TORONTO, April 17 (Reuters)- Canada said on Tuesday it is working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to access supplies of Mylan N.V.'s EpiPen emergency allergy antidote amid a global shortage that has spared the United States.

TORONTO, April 17 - Canada said on Tuesday it is working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to access supplies of Mylan N.V.» s EpiPen emergency allergy antidote amid a growing shortage that has spared the United States.

Celgene agrees to buy rest of Juno Therapeutics it doesn't already own for about $ 9 billion in cash to gain access to Juno's pipeline of CAR - T cancer drugs.

Securing dangerous or controlled substances: Businesses in a wide range of industries use biometric devices — with hand - readers being a particularly popular option — to help monitor access to toxic chemicals, radioactive waste, narcotic drugs and other potentially hazardous materials.

With transnational drug traffickers still seeking access to the lucrative US market — especially in light of a cocaine boom in Colombia that US officials worry could spur a rise in US consumption (though that increase is yet to be seen)-- another local partner would soon appear.

But in a country like the U.S., where drug makers are used to getting their products covered and many patients are used to the option of accessing a wide array of medicines if they so choose, the policy would get some fierce political pushback from powerful stakeholders.

May 1 (Reuters)- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc and Sanofi SA will slash the price of their expensive cholesterol drug for Express Scripts Holdings Co customers in exchange for greater patient access, with some savings to be shared with consumers, the companies said on Tuesday.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc and Sanofi SA will slash the price of their expensive cholesterol drug for Express Scripts Holdings Co customers in exchange for greater patient access, with some savings to be shared with consumers, the companies said on Tuesday.

May 1 Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi will cut the net price of their expensive cholesterol drug for Express Scripts customers in exchange for greater patient access, with some savings to be shared with consumers, the companies said on Tuesday.

But the company claimed it is committed to patient access, adding that about 9,000 DMD patients could benefit from the drug and «only a small fraction of these patients have been able to access Emflaza,» Chief Financial Officer Shane William Charles Kovacs said.

However, in very rare circumstances, Ionis Pharmaceuticals is able to make an experimental drug that we are developing available for patients outside of a traditional clinical trial under an expanded access protocol, sometimes referred to as a treatment protocol.

At this time, participation in one of our clinical trials is generally the most appropriate way to access our experimental drugs.

It also argued that BGI's access to DNA data of Americans might enable it to create a database of genetic information that the Chinese could then use to manufacture low - cost drugs and diagnostic tests.

Specific policies include a Doctors and Nurses Fund to increase training capacity for new health care professionals; working with Aboriginal communities to close the gap in the health status of Aboriginal peoples; and the introduction of a drug plan to ensure Canadians have access to catastrophic drug coverage.

«We have millions of women who arguably would like access to this drug, but who can't get it,» she said.

In a statement, it wrote that «any allegations of disregard for consumers who need these lifesaving drugs, government officials, regulators or any other of our valued stakeholders are patently false and wholly inconsistent with the company's culture, mission and track record of delivering access to medicine.»

As a drug developer specifically focused on companion pets, it has access to the 68 % of households that now own pets, and along with that, excellent pricing power.

More than half of all Americans with insurance should have access to the drug which is intended for overweight and obese adults with at least one serious medical condition.

The reason you probably didn't know that is in March of 2006 drug addicted liberal hackers got access to his website and stole everything in the archives of him advocating locking up drug addicts.

The best way for a society to avoid the dangers of addictive and dangerous drugs is to severely restrict access to them.

The initial easy access to these kinds of drugs had dark long - term consequences.

In 2012, when the Obama administration first proposed the so - called HHS mandate, requiring employers to provide insurance coverage that included free access to contraceptive and abortive drugs, it provided an exceedingly narrow religious exemption from the rule that echoed some of the distinctions first made in these earliest incarnations of the English tradition of toleration.

Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.

Of the 16,000 patients denied access to drugs, about half have been judged not eligible for consideration under the new regulation for end - of - life criteriOf the 16,000 patients denied access to drugs, about half have been judged not eligible for consideration under the new regulation for end - of - life criteriof - life criteria.

The authors of the study suggest, however, that more still needs to be done, as currently only about 60 % of the population has access to the free drugs...

The conclusion: given relatively unlimited availability, heroin users will voluntarily stabilize or reduce their dosage and some will even choose abstinence; long - addicted users can lead relatively normal, stable lives if provided legal access to their drug of choice, and with few side effects; and ordinary citizens (in Switzerland at least) will support such initiatives.

Through this partnership, we fund the establishment of drug and alcohol courts that give the most dangerous, repeat offenders access to the care they need, and reduce the rate of recidivism.

I'm far more concerned about the drug addicted babies born in my city or the incredible amount of gun violence and the lack of access to decent childcare for low income families.

These days all teens have access to many types of drugs.

Traumatic birthing experiences, like the use of drugs to induce labor and numb pain, internal electrode probes screwed onto baby's scalp, forceps, C - section, immediate cord clamping, suctioning, rough handling, bright lights, separation from mom and being left alone in a nursery incubator etc., can be hard - wired into a deep memory base that you, as a now functioning adult, can't even remember, let alone access!

The USA has higher rates of HIV, obesity, poor access to antenatal care, gestational diabetes, drug addiction and pre-eclampsia than many developed nations.

The law gives individuals convicted of low - level, nonviolent drug felonies restored access to SNAP (formerly known as food stamps).

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Thousands of deaths could be averted through a combined prevention and treatment strategy — interventions such as improved mother and child nutrition, optimal breastfeeding practices; Oral Rehydration Therapy [ORT]; new low - osmolarity formulations of ORS; incorporating rotavirus vaccines; zinc supplementation during diarrhoea episodes; immunizing all children against measles; appropriate drug therapy; increased access to safe clean water and sanitation facilities and improved personal and domestic hygiene, including keeping food and water clean and washing hands before touching food.

Instead, the program is intended to serve the millions of impoverished American children whose parents can not send them to school with a home - packed lunch for a whole host of possible reasons that never seem to cross Parker's mind: the family's SNAP benefits fail to cover a month's worth of healthful food, in light of today's rising food costs; there is only one parent in the household and he or she works one or more jobs and is not home to pack a lunch; one or both caretakers are drug - addicted, mentally ill, physically disabled or otherwise unable to adequately provide for their children; the family lives in a homeless shelter and lacks access to kitchen facilities; the family lives in a food desert where healthful groceries are scarce, etc. etc..

Kolb said he met recently with a family of a child from his district who could benefit from access to the drug now.

Eric Dumo The Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria in Lagos State has said that the unrestricted access to codeine and others like tramadol is what is responsible for the rising spate of drug abuse in the country.