Sentences with phrase «of the drug companies who»

There are hundreds of drug companies who would love to relieve you of your money (but not your symptoms) by giving you synthetic progesterone.

It's not in the best interests of the drug companies who sell propecia and finasteride for men to realise this because it's such a simple solution that would make these drugs obsolete.

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Weston said his family, who also controls Loblaw's parent company, George Weston Ltd. (TSX: WN), has undergone some major changes in the past year, including the $ 12.4 - billion blockbuster acquisition of the Shoppers Drug Mart chain.

On Wednesday, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who recently joined Valeant's board, pledged to end the company's practice of aggressively hiking drug prices.

Vas Narasimhan, a trained physician and former McKinsey consultant who is now global head of development at Novartis, has pursued a wide range of roles in his seven years at the drug company.

The article described how an internal investigation conducted by a company executive, Dinesh Thakur, who went on to become a whistleblower, reported appalling deceit: Ranbaxy scientists substituted cheaper, lower - quality ingredients in place of better ingredients, manipulated test parameters, and even bought brand - name drugs and used them in place of their own generics to win FDA approval.

Speaking of Novartis — the company's experimental CTL019, which is expected to be the first approved drug in a revolutionary new cancer treatment space that turns the body's own immune cells into cancer - killers, is already facing some apprehension from doctors and patient groups who are worried about its eventual pricing.

The drug is particularly valuable to insurance companies, who will pay top dollar for treatments that help patients avoid the ravaging and expensive - to - treat effects of Hepatitis C.

Herper homes in on a relatively new class of super-powerful (and super expensive) cholesterol - busting drugs called PCSK9 inhibitors (which were just shown to reduce death from any cause, and particularly heart - related conditions), and how patients with staggeringly high cholesterol who would benefit from the treatments had to wrangle with insurance companies that refused to cover them over their high prices.

Drug makers have asserted that benefits managers, who negotiate rebates and discounts with drug makers and then partially pass those savings on to insurance companies and consumers, are part of the reason that list prices have risen so much, since biopharma companies must incorporate the expected future discounts into their pricing strategDrug makers have asserted that benefits managers, who negotiate rebates and discounts with drug makers and then partially pass those savings on to insurance companies and consumers, are part of the reason that list prices have risen so much, since biopharma companies must incorporate the expected future discounts into their pricing strategdrug makers and then partially pass those savings on to insurance companies and consumers, are part of the reason that list prices have risen so much, since biopharma companies must incorporate the expected future discounts into their pricing strategies.

This unnamed witness, along with someone named Marc Emerson who was alleged to be involved in the drug trafficking before dying due to an overdose in June 2017, were customers of Phantom Secure, and used the company's devices to conduct their transnational drug trafficking activity, the complaint adds.

On Wednesday, I wrote about the abrupt ouster of biotech company chief Martin Shkreli, a former short seller who took the ultimate long position — starting Retrophin, a publicly traded drug manufacturer.

Shoppers Drug Mart shareholders, who will own approximately 29 % of the combined company, stand to benefit from substantial upside over the long - term, driven by the combined company's strategic position and achievement of full run - rate synergies.

The lawsuit filed Monday claimed that the three companies intentionally raised the list prices on their drugs to gain favorable treatment from pharmacy benefit managers, who work with health insurers and drug makers and help decide how a drug will be covered on a list of approved drugs.

Martin Shkreli, the Turing Pharmaceuticals LLC executive who drew criticism in August over a dramatic jump in a prescription drug price, made headlines Thursday for a different kind of price increase: a seven-fold surge in the shares of a microcap pharmaceutical company.

«The intensifying battle for negotiating power and market share will lead companies to do acquisitions across traditional industry boundary lines,» said Erik Gordon, a professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan who studies the drug industry.

Marathon had acquired the drugs from another company in 2013 and had quintupled their prices, according to the lawmakers, Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who is seeking the Democratic nomination for president, and Representative Elijah E. Cummings, Democrat of Maryland.

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.»

The company is led by its founder Len Schleifer who maintains a culture focused on internal development of novel new drugs.

Among the company's critics were officials at the Drug Enforcement Administration who said OxyContin had been a factor in hundreds of overdose deaths.

for stem cell research, there are tons of investors, it's just that the drug companies stand to lose millions and they have deeper pockets so they can bribe who they want to make sure it stays illegal.

And for stem cell research, there are tons of investors, it's just that the drug companies stand to lose millions and they have deeper pockets so they can bribe who they want to make sure it stays illegal.

When I think about the millions of Americans who can not afford basic healthcare while insurance and drug companies announce record profits, I worry.

Medical research must be funded in some way, and if it's funded by cosmetic companies, I honestly sometimes think that's better than it being funded by drug companies who push pill after pill regardless of the consequences.

The health professional who is supportive of breastfeeding will make efforts to find out how to avoid interruption of breastfeeding (the information in white pages of the blue Compendium of Pharmaceutical Specialties and the PDR are not a good references — every drug is contraindicated according to them as the drug companies are more interested in their liability than in the interests of mothers and babies).

The health professional who is supportive of breastfeeding will make efforts to find out how to avoid interruption of breastfeeding (the information in white pages of the blue Compendium of Pharmaceutical Specialties is not a good reference — every drug is contraindicated according to it as the drug companies are more interested in their liability than in the interests of mothers and babies).

Anyone who has worked with teenagers these past few years is well aware of the abuse that is going on, regardless of predictable disclaimers from drug company officials or school administrators.

These large gaps are causing some experts who worry about whether or not American kids are being overmedicated seek to show that several factors are at play — parents looking for fast solutions, medication becoming more normal for people's problems, different parenting styles, the prominence of drug companies and much more.

A former aide to Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTrump Jr. met with Gulf adviser who offered help to win election: report Voters Dems need aren't impressed by anti-waterboarding showboating After year of investigation, Trump can rightly claim some vindication MORE criticized Sen. Kirsten GillibrandKirsten Elizabeth GillibrandOvernight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — Trump hits federally funded clinics with new abortion restrictions Dem senators ask drug companies to list prices in ads Gillibrand to publish children's book about suffragists MORE on Thursday after the New York Democrat became the first of many senators to join a successful push to force the resignation of Sen. Al FrankenAlan (Al) Stuart Franken100 days after House passage, Gillibrand calls on Senate to act on sexual harassment reform Eric Schneiderman and #MeToo pose challenges for both parties Senate confirms Trump judicial pick over objections of home - state senator MORE (D - Minn.).

Right under the snooping radar of Akufo - Addo's Lilliputian ministerial nose, diplomatic and non-diplomatic passports reportedly disappeared under mysterious circumstance only to reappear in the company of international drug dealers who, once again, are either reportedly related to the political sniffer dog himself, Akufo - Addo, or to shady persons closely connected to the uppermost echelons of the ethnocentric NPP.

Many of our Olympic boxing heroes will tell how it was their local club and its coaches that saved them from a life of gangs, crime, and drugs, and clubs from Fitzroy Lodge in London to the National Smelting Company Boxing Club in my constituency are full of young men and women who have found their salvation in boxing.

She declined to say how many patients have been administered the drug by the company, saying that the company has seen a «steady stream of patients and continue to take appointments to accommodate patients who are traveling to our locations.»

That is the position of Erie County Legislator Patrick Burke, who is sponsoring legislation to hold drug companies accountable.

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.

McCoy, who is co-chair for the County Executives of America's Opioid Abuse Task Force, said the lawsuit is part of a national initiative to hold drug companies accountable.

Other bills that were introduced, but not voted on, included measures to create new penalties for those who fail to report construction fatalities, a requirement for construction companies to give the city detailed reports about scheduled construction activities months in advance, and a mandate for drug and alcohol testing of construction workers at certain job sites.

Onondaga County has filed a lawsuit against multiple prescription drug manufacturers and distributors, joining other New York counties who in recent months have demanded pharmaceutical companies pay for costs of the growing opioid crisis.

In a new twist of a historic tragedy, 13 Americans who say they are survivors of thalidomide are suing four companies for producing and distributing the notorious drug.

Drug company Phase I trials are the domain of those people who claim to make a living as scientific subjects (check out a Wired feature on them here).

In addition, the Merck institute — a nonprofit foundation set up by the giant drug company — is pulling together a committee of six prominent biologists who will select 150 clones for development into mouse strains over the next few years.

In the first week of the feature and continuing throughout the month, Next Wave will explore drug discovery opportunities in industry by highlighting the experiences of researchers working for larger and more established companies, as well as the motivations of an individual who chose a drug discovery start - up.

Complicating matters, many clinical guidelines are written by physicians and members of professional societies who have financial conflicts of interest with drug, device, or test kit companies.

An organic chemist based at Emory University in Atlanta who has helped start several biotech companies, Schinazi has made hundreds of millions of dollars from the drugs, which treat HIV and hepatitis B and help cure hepatitis C.

«I was just talking to a colleague the other day from a major drug company who came in with a piece of paper with 15 bioinformatics jobs that they're ready to hire tomorrow,» he says.

The general manager hired a scientist who looked broadly at the slate of new services they could offer drug company clients and put together an action plan to integrate the new services.

National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins today responded to a flap about a psychiatrist who failed to report drug - company income and avoided his university's punishment by moving to a new university.

Researchers who accept U.S. grants should be held to rigorous standards for disclosing outside income — such as from drug companies — according to a couple of heavyweight institutions.

For starters, producing antibody - based antivenoms is time consuming and expensive, making it difficult for drug companies to make money on their sale, says Ken Shea, a chemist at the University of California, Irvine, who led the new work.

The punishment, imposed in August but only made public today, is apparently the most severe reaction by NIH so far to a Senate investigation of NIH - funded researchers who may have failed to report all of their income from drug companies.

An American who buys golf clubs abroad and doesn't want to declare them can send them via a company that packs them in a shipping container, which then slips them into port without ever being seen by customs agents; the ability of drug dealers to bypass even the most elaborate border controls is a well - known problem.