Sentences with phrase «of known drugs»

The CYP3A enzyme is one of the most abundant cytochrome enzymes and is responsible for the metabolism of approximately 60 % of all known drugs.

Creating Our Own Luck Drug discovery today often starts with a library of chemical compounds that includes thousands of known drugs.

When told that Davis came out of a known drug house, Soto claimed it was not known and the police only reported it as a drug house two weeks ago.

A newly identified «spooky toxin» launches a broad attack but might be eased with a version of a known drug.

Not exact matches

Hoffman was known to have a history of alcohol and drug abuse, and had told the Guardian in 2011 that after a stint in rehab at an early point in his career he had given up drinking.

«We know that these can be very toxic and have drug interactions,» says Austin, adding that «weight loss supplements are making up a majority of events where people end up in emergency rooms.»

Bitcoin, like most other digital currencies, is anonymous (but not untraceable)-- which was one of its key selling points in the early days when it was perhaps best - known for buying drugs on the dark web.

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.

From 2011, Bitcoin was best known for its association with the dark web bazaar called Silk Road, where unscrupulous folks used it to buy or sell drugs and other contraband under the guise of pseudonyms — the only basic protection Bitcoin afforded.

«We know that these can be very toxic and have drug interactions,» Austin said, adding that «weight loss supplements are making up a majority of events where people end up in emergency rooms.»

Rather, it's the no - holds - barred sales practices that Alexion allegedly engaged in — which, in some cases, reportedly led to salespeople bullying doctors into prescribing the drug for patients even when the efficacy of the treatment was unclear.

«If your drug prices aren't flat or going down every year, I know who's getting the money, and it should not be happening,» says Craig Burridge, the recently retired executive director of the New York State Pharmacists Society.

But Spangenberg says he knew when he started with Bass that the drug patent effort wouldn't hold his interest for the rest of his life.

By virtually every measure, prohibition of cannabis with high THC commonly known as marijuana and the variant with no recreational drug potential commonly known as hemp has cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars in missed business opportunities and wasted resources spent unsuccessfully fighting the so - called war on 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.

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.

Noting that the country faced epidemic levels of prescription drug abuse, the letters also contained more explicit expectations that registrants «know their customers» — i.e., engage in due diligence to ensure pharmacies and dispensers were aboveboard — and that they report and refrain from shipping suspicious orders.

Such a system makes it difficult for governments to know the identities of people exchanging money, so it has become a haven for money laundering, drug dealing, and corruption.

Known by the nickname «Mi Sangre» (My Blood), Lopez Londono was the head of the Los Urabenos drug cartel, one of the most feared in Colombia.

Instead, following Hopper's death in 2010, it's best known for the tales of drug use and partying that went on throughout the creation of it.

Then because that emergency department doesn't know that person — they don't have a health record on that patient — they end up with a drug interaction and that creates another complication and they go back again and the cycle kind of repeats itself.»

«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.

Yepez, himself known as «El Marro,» or «The Mallet,» is wanted by federal authorities and suspected of crimes ranging from drug trafficking to fuel theft.

We should know, for example, how many weeks» worth of necessary drugs hospitals have «in stock.»

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.

Her $ 5 billion TIAA - CREF Growth & Income Fund bought the stock in 2011, the day after Gilead acquired Pharmasset, a little - known maker of hepatitis C drugs.

The new offering, «Watson for Patient Safety,» will gobble up anonymized medical records, claims data, and millions of electronic submissions to the FDA about potential drug side effects (known as individual case safety reports) to see if it can learn about the hidden dangers of medicines before they become too costly.

«It's hard to know what incentives will work for the pharmaceutical companies to increase drug production,» said the University of Utah's Fox.

Many receive benefits provided under Medicaid, including the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), as well as Aged, Blind or Disabled (ABD), Foster Care and Long - Term Services and Supports (LTSS), in addition to other state - sponsored programs, Medicare (including the Medicare prescription drug benefit commonly known as «Part D»), dual eligible programs and programs with the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

For drug makers, there's plenty of hurt in not knowing which drugs do what to whom and when.

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.

On November 8, the US House of Representatives held a hearing on the effectiveness of a 1999 law known as the Kingpin Act, which is used to sanction individuals suspected of involvement in the drug trade.

Giving patients drugs that are based on the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, known for their hallucinogenic properties, could help reboot the brains of people who suffer from mental illness and who are otherwise resistant to treatment.

So, most people don't know what to do when I tell them that my parents were the directors of a residential therapeutic drug community center.

«As stewards of the taxpayer, we need to know why CMS continues to pay for this drug when Tricare and the nation's top insurance providers have severely restricted reimbursements for this drug,» Scott's letter said.

The judge declared that this was an argument of the «privileged» and said that Ulbricht was no different than a drug dealer from the Bronx.

Before playing Barney Stinson on «How I Met You Mother,» Harris was mainly known for his role as the namesake child doctor on «Doogie Howser, MD.» But the raunchy, stripper - loving, drug - using alter ego he plays on «Harold & Kumar» banished all thoughts of Doogie.

Henry Wykowski, San Francisco - based attorney, represents roughly 100 cannabis industry clients, also agreed, adding, «I think that, regardless of who makes up the [Trump] Administration, they have to realize that the population of the United States no longer thinks that cannabis is a bad drug.

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.

That's even worse than it sounds: Commonly eaten farm animals are rarely euthanized, so the presence of those drugs raised the possibility that meat from horses or even dogs and cats from animal shelters had made it into the supply, as has been known to happen.

Earlier this year, when officials from Health Canada appeared before a House of Commons committee, they acknowledged that it is hard to estimate the actual cost but that they knew that the agreement would increase the costs of drugs in Canada.

In a rare interview with Proceso in 2010, Ismael Zambada, when asked about the arrest of his son, insisted that the drugs will keep flowing no matter what — even if El Chapo himself is brought down.

Heroin and fentanyl look identical, and with drugs purchased on the street, «you don't know what you're taking,» Tim Pifer, the director of the New Hampshire State Police Forensic Laboratory, told STAT in an interview.

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.

Mr. Rodriguez - Orejuela is a banker who became known in drug circles as «the Chess Player» because of his shrewdness.

Attorneys for McGowan said after the hearing that they were confident a jury would find no proof McGowan knew the drugs were in the wallet or had possession of the wallet when her plane landed in Virginia.

«They're running scared,» said Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the main backer of Prop 61, also known as «the California Drug Price Relief Act.»

Even before media reports and a congressional hearing vilified Valeant Pharmaceuticals International for raising prices on a pair of lifesaving heart drugs, Dr. Umesh Khot knew something was very wrong.

In an email he sent Ackman, who is one of the world's best - known hedge fund managers, was a link to Hempton's latest critique of the Canadian drug maker's potential problems, one of the most detailed produced by anyone yet.