Sentences with phrase «old drugs»

The finding also calls attention to the special medical needs of older drug users — a group that, until now, hasn't garnered much notice.

Also, he looks like a 40 year old drug addict.

Older drug users tend to be isolated and are often ashamed to admit to their drug problem, she says.

Some pharmacies have already moved in this direction by setting up drop boxes to dispose of old drugs when someone comes in to fill a new prescription, he adds.

Their goal is to acquire larger pharma companies like Allergan and Shire by paying top dollar, and then raising prices on older drugs by 200 % to 500 % to generate the appearance of revenue growth.

A group of new drugs against malaria does more than just kill parasites; it may also restore the efficacy of a generation of older drugs called quinolines to which parasites around the world have become resistant.

On Wednesday, members of the Special Committee on Aging heard health experts speak out sharply against price gouging in which companies acquire older drugs with no generic competition and suddenly raise their price.

Now, many companies are flocking to the same drug targets, which means that the first of a kind to be approved won't enjoy a monopoly for as long as older drugs did.

When 22 year old drug dealer Chris (Hirsch) has his stash stolen by his mother, he has to come up with six thousand dollars quick or he's dead.

As lawmakers and the public scrutinize dramatic price increases for other old drugs — most recently with the Mylan - owned EpiPen, which saw its cost go up by 500 % in the past nine years — the next flash point may be insulin, a drug both ubiquitous and complicated.

Though Shkreli is best known for hiking the price of a decades - old drug by 5,000 percent when he led Turing Pharmaceuticals, this trial related to an entirely different matter: Ponzi - like fraud.

With the help of Dr O'Hara (Eve Best), she gets into a rehab center and befriends a 17 year old drug addict named Charlie (Jake Cannavale).

Rice and team have been able to invigorate older drugs from the penicillin family by combining them with BPEI.

Charles Rice, principal investigator and professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, OU College of Arts and Sciences, with team members Robert Cichewicz and Daniel Glatzhofer, both OU chemistry professors, has been able to invigorate older drugs from the penicillin family by combining them with BPEI.

Covalently binding drugs include old drugs such as aspirin and penicillin, as well as powerful new enzyme inhibitor drugs for treating cancers.

Older drugs such as benzodiazepines are more likely to cause morning drowsiness or dizziness, because they have longer half - lives — meaning the effects take longer to wear off.

76 yr old no drugs outgoing.

«I then had to take a very old drug which cured the malaria, but from which I suffered terrible side effects.»

But what Sequoia married itself to was an offshore drug company that borrowed heavily to buy other drug companies, cut costs and research, then raised prices on many older drugs to astronomical heights.

«While we understand a steady, rational increase in prices, it is the sudden, unfounded price explosions in select older drugs that hinder us in caring for patients,» Fogel told the committee.

Within weeks of the deal, Valeant went from investor idol to pariah as its business model of buying older drugs and raising the prices attracted international scorn.

I'd rather have a socialist pope than a capitalist pope, and who cares what a bitter old drug addict thinks anyway?

Limbaugh is an irrelevant old drug addict, desperately trying to hold onto his «relevance» in the media in order to keep the money rolling in.

He was haunted by the murder of two kids he had grown close to and by the words of a 12 - year - old drug trafficker who told him, «I'm going to die young, but I'm going to live well.»

By Gita Gupta Last year, we posted about Dr.Robert Naviaux's success with the 100 year old drug suramin in a small double - blind, placebo controlled trial of children with autism.

The gratingly privileged 37 - year - old drug pusher, scion of Hollywood Oscar - winning royalty — son of Michael Douglas, grandson of Kirk...

Old drugs often get a surprising second life.

«Recently, interest in re-using old drugs to treat new diseases has increased as a way to develop new therapies more quickly.

«Drug - target database lets researchers match old drugs to new uses.»

«Back to the future: Most efficient option for treating unexplained infertility: An inexpensive 50 - year - old drug proves just as effective as more recent reproductive hormones.»

That 1971 case report, along with numerous lab studies, have suggested that the 6 - decade - old drug disulfiram (commercially known as Antabuse), which makes people feel sick from drinking small amounts of alcohol, might also be a cancer fighter.

Today we speak with Steven T. Rosen, MD, about a couple of the projects he and his group are working on, repurposing old drugs for the treatment of multiple myeloma, that will be presented this year at ASH.

The teen designed handouts about the dangers of flushing and throwing away old drugs.

Old Drug Leads to New Cure Kimmel Cancer Center scientists discover that high dose cyclophosphamide, without bone marrow transplant, cures aplastic anemia and several autoimmune diseases.

«We should look also at older drugs that may have been discarded, and perhaps work more to understand the mechanism of action of acetaminophen to develop a new, more effective and less toxic drug of the same class, or develop new classes of painkillers,» Moore suggested.

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In a month... Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake are Friends With Benefits... Old drug war scores are settled in Colombiana...

Nick Schenk tapped to adapt New York Times Magazine article The Sinaloa Cartel's 90 - Year - Old Drug Mule for Ruben Fleischer (The Wrap).

Pharmacogenomics: The applications of Pharmacogenomics are related to the genomic technologies which are used in drug discovery and further characterization of several old drugs.

While Yervoy brought in $ 960 million in sales in 2013 (an enormous figure for a two - year - old drug with a small patient population), the company currently has more than 35 ongoing clinical trials investigating another drug that disengages the immune system's brakes: the much - awaited nivolumab, which was also from the Medarex portfolio.

Synopsis: Fresh (Sean Nelson) is a 12 - year - old drug dealer who finds himself trapped in a web of poverty, corruption and racial tension in Brooklyn, New York... [MORE]

(Carroll also notes that GSK was no saint when it came to jacking up prices on older drugs — an ongoing industry - wide problem.)

They hope to use Auroanofin to pave the way for discovering new uses for other old drugs.

49 yr old Drug and Alcohol Counsellor Bradbury from Orangeville, has several hobbies and interests which include vehicle, how to travel alone and handwriting.

At any one time, Liverpool Addaction Shared Care services care for approximately 1000 older drug users.

Researchers are also looking at new uses for old drugs — trying to prevent Alzheimer's using ibuprofen, for example.

We screened a large collection of old drugs for drugs that kill Cryptococcus and rediscovered tamoxifen,» says Krysan.

But the real issue on pricing is the year - on - year rises on old drugs — the deflection is to talk about new drug prices, but the sleight of hand is on the double digit rises taken every year on the portfolio staples.

The investigation targets Valeant Pharmaceuticals and Turing Pharmaceuticals, two of the biggest offenders of price hikes on older drugs.