Sentences with phrase «of pharmaceutical medicines»

He is lead counsel in Ontario and manages litigation nationally for some of the world's largest manufacturers of pharmaceutical medicines, medical devices, consumer goods, automotive parts and heavy equipment.

So get yourself treated early with the use of pharmaceutical medicines.

My education included all the basic science, anatomy, and medical classes that a medical doctor would take as well as training in the use of pharmaceutical medicines, and minor surgery, however in my education a different philosophy was taught as well as many, many tools of alternative medicine.

Training includes all the basic science, anatomy, and medical classes that a medical doctor would take as well as training in the use of pharmaceutical medicines, and minor surgery, however, in Naturopathic Medicine a different philosophy is taught as well as many, many tools of alternative medicine.

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A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that Valeant Pharmaceuticals» infamous price hikes for a pair of heart drugs called nitroprusside and isoproterenol — whose prices were increased by 310 % and 720 %, respectively — had significant downstream effects on patient care.

Brendan Kennedy, the cofounder of Privateer Holdings, which owns various marijuana companies like Marley Natural and Canadian pharmaceutical - grade cannabis producer Tilray, says his companies are expanding abroad while the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Food and Drug Administration debate whether or not to treat the plant as a medicine or keep it in the same category as heroin.

Supplies of thousands of medicines are at risk of disruption if Britain leaves the European Union without a trade deal, European pharmaceutical companies warned on Thursday.

Founded more than two centuries ago by small medicines vendor and namesake Chobei Takeda in Osaka, Japan, the company was that nation's largest pharmaceutical firm by revenue as of 2014.

Dimon said it would also study the money spent on waste, administration and fraud and determine why there is misuse of specialty medicines and pharmaceuticals.

Dr. Chawla joined La Jolla Pharmaceuticals in 2015, and previously was a Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University, where he had dual appointments in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and in the Department of Medicine, Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension.

The takeover interest in Tesaro underscores the pharmaceutical industry's strong appetite for the acquisition of biotechnology companies with promising medicines under development in lucrative sectors such as cancer treatment.

While terms like «patent protection» and «public domain» were clearly part of the IPR debate, it also stretched to the cost of drugs and the availability of medicines, encompassing terms like «health advocates» and «pharmaceutical companies.»

Deals between pharmaceutical corporations and their generic drug competitors, which government officials say keep cheaper forms of medicine off the market, can sometimes be illegal and therefore can be challenged in court, the Supreme Court said Monday...

(Reuters)- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc's RNAi - based drug that targets a rare genetic disease met the main goal of a key study, in a breakthrough for the new class of medicines that works by blocking disease - causing proteins.

Unless, of course, they intend to pursue a career in any field of biology, pharmaceutical development, or medicine.

While there is still some debate as to what causes these disorders in children, the intervention of natural medicine, rather than those mass - produced by pharmaceutical companies, is being used more and more throughout treatment programs.

It's rare that it's tested in the USA because of the pharmaceutical industry's influence of dominating medicine with synthetic chemicals that can be patented.

She uses a wide array of methods to promote healing including: nutrition, botanical medicine, homeopathy, hydrotherapy, physical medicine, and, if necessary, pharmaceutical medications.

And if your blog knew anything about the reality of the revolving door that exists between the FDA and pharmaceutical industry then you would understand why most medicines that have been used for thousands of years are demonized in favor of A) a chemical solution like Reglan, or B) soy - based baby formula, also created by the pharmaceutical industry.

Decline of massage therapy in Western medicine coincided with the pharmaceutical revolution of the 1940s

Prior to banking Sarah worked briefly in the pharmaceutical industry, spending time in Canberra in discussions with Government about public subsidisation of medicines and vaccines.

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.

Mr Sherman was the founder and chairman of pharmaceutical giant Apotex, which sells generic medicines around the world.

«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.»

Five years later, Gilead became the first pharmaceutical company to sign an agreement with the newly formed Medicines Patent Pool — an organisation formed to coordinate the licensing of patent - protected medicines so that they can be produced in generic form for low income countries.

I also studied medicine in Leiden and after graduating went to work at the experimental clinical pharmacology unit of Wellcome (a pharmaceutical company in England).

Therefore, pharmaceutical research aims to develop ocular inserts, very thin cylinders or discs made of bioadhesive polymeric materials, which adapt to the shape of the eye and release the medicine through the cornea in a controlled manner.»

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.

Counterfeit drugs are estimated to make up as much as 30 % of medicines in some developing countries and cost legitimate pharmaceutical companies up to $ 200 billion per year.

Arthritis is made to order for integrative medicine because there are many approaches that should be emphasized first — an anti-inflammatory diet and herbs like ginger and turmeric, water exercise, hypnosis or guided imagery, possibly Chinese medicine — before the selective use of pharmaceuticals.

In anticipation of targeted medicines, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are increasingly performing genetic studies of clinical trial participants in hopes of identifying genetic profiles that predict therapeutic outcomes.

As reported in a paper published online in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from Penn Medicine, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, and a group of international collaborators studied ANGPTL3 in both humans and mice.

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.

«What we are likely seeing is that the model of a vertically integrated pharmaceutical company capable of taking a molecule from discovery to market is in the process of disintegrating,» says Garret FitzGerald, chair of the Department of Pharmacology and director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Pennsylvania.

The trial using medicines produced by Egyptian drug manufacturer Pharco Pharmaceuticals was run by DNDi and co-sponsored by the Malaysian Ministry of Health, in ten sites in Malaysia and Thailand.

The university and industry must work together to overcome the fundamental challenges inherent in developing pharmaceuticals for the future,» says Lassina Badolo, Principal Scientist with H. Lundbeck A / S and an expert on the absorption of medicines in the body.

But hard - core allopathic medicine has its own hall of shame: profit - driven research that virtually ignores unpatentable plant - based medicines, antibiotic overkill that yields invulnerable super-pathogens, and — according to a lead article in the April 15, 1998 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association — an estimated 100,000 deaths a year in U.S. hospitals directly caused by adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs.

In the age of modern medicine, pharmaceutical companies harnessed the binding properties of kaolin, a clay mineral, to produce Kaopectate, a drug that treats diarrhea and other digestive issues.

«Thirty four percent of people who are trying to quit smoking use pharmaceutical aids and yet most are not successful,» said senior study author John P. Pierce, PhD, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center.

Richards adds that the German model, promising as it is, uncritically reproduces the notion of the «expert», typical of orthodox medicine, and is vulnerable to manipulation by large pharmaceutical companies.

One of the core beliefs at ISB is that medicine will become more and more personalized, with people sequencing their own genes and pharmaceutical companies developing drugs for groups with certain genetic characteristics.

Currently, several federal funding agencies support Brazilian academic scientists and the pharmaceutical industry in the development of new medicines:

For example, the best national pharmaceutical companies are starting to invest in the validation of plant - derived medicines in an attempt to lay claim to new medicines and compete with the conventional imported compounds, which make up over 70 % of the Brazilian market.

In a new study, published online June 6 in Nature, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, together with colleagues at Keio University, the University of Nebraska and Ionis Pharmaceuticals describe an innovative new model that not only allowed them to track drug resistance in vivo, but also revealed a new therapeutic target, which early testing suggests could provide a strategy to arrest pancreatic cancer growth.

THE distinguished American botanist and Amazonian ethnologist, Darren Posey, now based at the University of Oxford, has been leading a campaign to allocate intellectual property rights to indigenous people if their folklore is helpful to modern medicine and if the plants they collect to cure ailments are exploited by Western pharmaceutical companies.

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Engineering in Medicine (MGH - CEM) have created a «liver on a chip,» a model of liver tissue that replicates the metabolic variations found throughout the organ and more accurately reflects the distinctive patterns of liver damage caused by exposure to environmental toxins, including pharmaceutical overdose.

The researchers, including scientists from pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, report in an advanced online publication in Nature Medicine on May 4, that their findings indicate «an underappreciated genomic heterogeneity» in mechanisms of resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) drugs that target the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) mutation that drive some cases of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

The stakeholders participating in the Roundtable — including scientists, physicians, the pharmaceutical and insurance industries, government, patient groups, and others — discussed a case study, which was used as a springboard to confront issues from the highly technical to the economic, ethical, and regulatory that will need to be addressed if personalized medicine is to be incorporated into the mainstream of health care.

«This is the first instance I am aware of where an academic drug discovery group moved a molecule designed to hopefully treat a chronic brain disorder all the way from early discovery to human trials without there being, at some point along the way, a pharmaceutical partner,» said P. Jeffrey Conn, Ph.D., Lee E. Limbird Professor of Pharmacology in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and director of the Vanderbilt Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery (VCNDD).

Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device and biotechnology companies to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs.