Sentences with phrase «on pharmaceutical medicines»

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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.

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.

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.

Creating innovative, lifesaving medicines, say pharmaceutical company bosses, requires a sufficient return on investment.

Drug companies often face the need to come up with new medicines, especially as patents on older pharmaceuticals expire.

Unlike pharmaceutical medications, homeopathic medicines aren't dependent on body weight to be effective and avoid overdoses.

Some people will argue that cough medicines have some alcohol in them and that the numbing agents in over the counter teething gels can do weird things to babies» throats and mouths and that a little rum first is nothing compared to the creepy pharmaceuticals we inflict on our children from birth on.

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.

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.

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).

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.

On September 1, 2011, Hyam I. Levitsky, M.D., a member of the executive committee of the CRI Cancer Immunotherapy Consortium, was named head of cancer immunology experimental medicine at Roche, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies.

The symposium we've convened addresses the ways Organs - on - Chips technology is being used for drug development by pharmaceutical companies and for precision medicine by clinicians.

At the 10th Annual NYSCF Conference on Translational Stem Cell Research NYSCF will bring together world leaders in biotechnology, regenerative medicine, precision medicine, and pharmaceuticals to...

XM Satelite Radio - Reach MD Channel 157 - «Focus on Pharmacy» Segment - June 16, 2008 Susan Goodin, PharmD, FCCP, BCOP, director of pharmaceutical sciences at CINJ and associate professor of medicine at UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, discusses «Oral Chemotherapeutic Agents: How Have They Transformed Pharmacy and Oncology?»

Specifically, my main focus lies on precision medicine, large - scale data analysis, comparative medicine, as well as traditional pharmaceuticals.

Timo Faltus current work focuses on how to advance European and German stem cell and tissue engineering law as well as reproductive medicine and pharmaceutical law.

My goal is to help others who are frustrated and exhausted with Western medicine and can't get a diagnosis or are on pharmaceutical drugs to mask the symptoms of their diagnosis.

(NaturalHealth365) While conventional medicine continues to rely heavily on risky pharmaceuticals and invasive treatments, Jonathan Landsman — host of NaturalHealth365 — says there are three often - overlooked causes behind chronic disease that most people and their physicians never consider.

I want to educate people on a way to live a simple, healthy and balanced life through the food and medicine that nature has given us, the miracle of pharmaceuticals where needed and the movement the body craves.»

However, since a diet can not be patented, mainstream medicine has instead focused on pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines to combat diseases like Alzheimer's, as such drugs are seen as a financial windfall for pharmaceutical companies, with so many Americans in the «Baby Boomer» age group entering into their senior years.

She later sensed that conventional medicine, with its focus on pharmaceuticals and surgery, was not the path she was called to walk, and she spent her time at Vanderbilt University studying economics and math, not knowing that medicine included more than the conventional world in which she was raised.

On the other hand, pharmaceutical drugs such as doctor prescribed medicines and over the counter drugs kill more than one million Americans every year.

Alternative medicine can enhance modern medicinal treatments and help reduce dependency on pharmaceutical drugs.

Many of today's pharmaceutical medicines are based on plant extracts.

So we are mostly on our own plus dependent on those alternative medicine doctors who do go outside the box of toxic current medicines promoted by Big Pharma, and it's a source of immense profit to so - called «organized» medicine advocates to use only their recommendations as instructed by the big pharmaceutical industry, and those who profit by it.

Western medicine has relied on the use of synthetic hormones and pharmaceutical agents for over 60 years.

Based on my experience treating people with chronic Lyme disease these are the best fatigue busting supplements and pharmaceutical medicines.

As you'll discover as you read on, natural progesterone is essential for maintaining hormone balance, and yet it has been largely overlooked by conventional medicine because of medical politics and pharmaceutical company profits.

Fortunately, Dr. Bredesen is a practitioner of functional medicine, which approaches the underlying cause of any disease then focuses on treatments usually involving systems of holistic or alternative medicine instead of pharmaceutical drugs.

But that is a system dependent on taxes and there is still debate about how much people should pay into the system, doctors entering private medicine and making millions, focusing more on preventative care and alternative medicine, the role of the pharmaceutical companies.

He has also served as Director for Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy for the Donald Monk Cancer Research Foundation; he is a partner at Veterinary Research Associates, LLC, a company focused on development and implementation of diagnostics for veterinary medicine and a founder / scientist at ApopLogic Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a biotechnology company focused on development of cancer therapeutics.

Today's veterinary medicine uses animal - grade and human - grade pharmaceuticals for pain management depending on the patient's needs.

Dr. Katz practices holistic and integrative medicine focusing on proper diet and nutrition as well as using natural remedies over pharmaceuticals when possible.

Western veterinary medicine, like Western human medicine, is largely reliant on synthetic pharmaceuticals.

The Chrysler Museum of Art explores our relationship to medicine and technology with an exhibition focused on the pharmaceutical industry.

Similarly, biomedical and pharmaceutical research is bedazzled by molecular genetics, has sequenced the genome of one or two humans and a handful of other species and invested trillions on very rigidly reductionistic bottom - up research into medicines and diseases — with the result of empty drug pipelines for the big pharma companies in spite of all this investment.

So does the testing of biomedical or pharmaceutical compounds on primates really advance medicine?

If such actions took place in any other field, for example pharmaceutical research and the testing of new medicines, the scientists would not only be branded unethical but would most likely be stripped of their positions by an oil or tobacco company and went on to «prove» that their products were harmless would be ridiculed and ignored.

BTG is focused on three business areas: interventional medicine, specialty pharmaceuticals and licensing.

Preparing medicines, injections, pumps and other pharmaceutical products based on the name of concerned patient and dosage listed as per the physician's order

• Keeping prescription records on computer • Preparation of medicines • Taking the inventory • Describing and explaining pharmaceutical processes to clients taking tests • Labeling medicines

Medzilla is another popular medical job board utilized by both employers and recruiters, with a focus on biotechnology, pharmaceutical, science, medicine, and healthcare professions.

As baby boomers age and rely more on health care and medicines, there is more demand for pharmaceutical services.

On the cost efficiency — or not — of our health system, an interesting article by Australian researchers was published by The Conversation explaining the concept of patent «evergreening» — a strategy pharmaceutical companies use to keep the cost of medicines (and their profits) high.

I was not advancing any conspiracy theory about the medical establishment — I was referring to the fact that a lot of people are suspicious of the medical establishment, the pharmaceutical industry, or perhaps Western medicine in general, which could predispose them to wanting to find answers on their own, independently.