Sentences with phrase «on the drug in»

That billion dollars the government is spending is from Medicare Part D, a program for elderly Americans (not infants) that spent more than $ 500 million on the drug in 2015 alone.

If the Supreme Court focuses too narrowly on drugs in this case and misses the larger issue of religious ritual, it could create a devastating precedent for religious liberty.

The Senate's was prompted to order the investigation on the drugs in the country after a motion tagged «Anti-Malaria Drugs banned by the European Union, still being sold and consumed in Nigeria

Here's the second of our two articles on drugs in this year's top ten, highlighting the weaknesses of the «escalator» system for cannabis warnings.

«In March, there will be a United Nation General Assembly special session on drugs in Vienna,» he said in the Commons on February 5th.

She attends the IDC public hearing on the drug in Syracuse Thursday.

Kudos also to Clare Wilson for her article on ending the war on drugs in the same issue (p 16), for the same reasons.

Christopher Foster, the deputy chief executive of the Jockey Club of Britain, expects the committee to prevent duplication of research, make the most of fresh developments in analytical science and coordinate intelligence gathering on drugs in racing.

The test called SkimuneTM, which is trademarked and has a patent pending, has been successfully tested by a number of large pharmaceutical companies on drugs in development and provides a reliable result within two weeks.

This means that an average of $ 10 billion dollars was spent on these drugs in 2013 alone!

John Simm, Danny Dyer, and others go together for a night out going out of their mind on every drug in the book.

Sicario, a fall release that addressed the war on drugs in both the United States and Mexico, led all films with five nominations including Best Picture and Best Director for Denis Villeneuve.

Cooke presents a case that the war on drugs in America is not only a no - win scenario, it is no longer (if it ever was) designed to be won as much as fulfill disturbing, narrow agendas in the public and private sectors.

To force the policy upon the president, she introduces an ingredient into her product that will infect and ultimately kill every drug user in the world unless they get her antidote in time — which makes no sense, and which the president seems to believe would be doing him a favor, effectively ending the war on drugs in one fell swoop.

The War on Drugs in the United States of America is one of the biggest issues facing this nation, but many of its roots lie in a much more dire situation in Mexico.

While Traffic is essentially about the war on drugs in America, the film's starting point is the almost - exclusively south - of - the - border (and nearly all Spanish language) story of Javier Rodriguez (Benicio Del Toro, doing away with his annoying tics and delivering a career performance), an average Tijuana State policeman who is given the opportunity for greater prestige by working for General Salazar's (Tomas Milian) efforts against the drug cartels.

Traffic & Sicario - They both deal with the War on Drugs in excellent fashion.

«Sicario» (September 18): Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, and Benicio del Toro star in this morally - complicated drama centered around the war on drugs in Mexico.

Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin are back to continue their fight against the war on drugs in Sicario 2: Soldado.

While your editor may not necessarily agree with all of their policy solutions (and note that much of their proposals ignore the consequences of the War on Drugs in perpetuating gun - related homicides), I also believe that our youth, our future adults and leaders, have a right and moral obligation to be engaged in the real world.

Extensive safety tests on the drug in dogs was completed prior to being accepted in Auburn's clinical trial program.

Newer pain medications including Gabapentin, or Amantadine are being increasingly utilized by veterinarians as add - on drugs in pets who are limping and / or experiencing pain.

Thomasos became fascinated with the prison architecture that began to grow as the United States's incarceration rate climbed after Nixon declared war on drugs in 1971 and skyrocketed after Reagan's 1984 Sentencing Reform Act.

Present handling of those massive messes is allowing escapes of germs, toxics and drugs as evidenced by EPA holding this month a conference on drugs in drinking water.

In a letter to Apple dated last October 10, 131 groups urged CEO Tim Cook to remove apps that «promote murder, extrajudicial killings, violence, and the war on drugs in the Philippines.»

Not exact matches

While the new mid-stage study results from DNDi were impressive (they showed cure rates of 96 % to 97 % even for the sickest patients and those with liver scarring), more late - stage trials will be necessary before the drug is available on a large scale in the developing world.

The FDA's Compliance Policy Guide provides guidance on the regulation of [over the counter] and prescription homeopathic drugs and delineates those conditions under which homeopathic drugs may be marketed in the U.S.

With city data indicating that African - Americans have been charged with marijuana crimes twice as frequently as white residents, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously in March to allocate 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis sales permits to people affected by the war on drugs.

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.

Besides Oakland residents arrested within the city for pot crimes dating back to 1996, the permits are available to residents living at least 10 of the past 20 years in police beats torn apart by the war on drugs.

Allergan has been drawing plenty of attention for its controversial deal to safe house patents on a blockbuster dry eye drug by transferring them to a Native American tribe in upstate New York.

Drugmaker Merck reported a better - than - expected first - quarter profit on Tuesday, helped by a more than 150 percent rise in sales of cancer drug Keytruda.

Durkan echoed a growing consensus in describing Seattle's move as an «important step to right the wrongs [of] the failed war on drugs.»

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

By contrast, while the cost of older, branded pharmaceuticals continue to rise and contribute to increased spending, when discounting is considered, prices of these drugs increased, on average, 2.8 % in 2015, the lowest growth rate in years.

Mexican leaders took the action on medical marijuana - and Pena Nietro has taken a new stance on illegal drugs as a whole - as the country faces a continued escalation in the drug wars that have ravaged Mexico for years.

The visible failure of the war on drugs, combined with a generational tipping point in attitudes, has poll after poll showing a majority of adults favouring the legalization or at least decriminalization of recreational cannabis use.

Instead of focusing on developing a blockbuster drug only to have it fail in trials, Tehrani's company would concentrate on the process of innovation.

Simply building platforms for others to test their drugs on, Tehrani and his board soon realized, would have failed to capitalize on the expertise the firm was developing in the process.

HONG KONG, April 26 (Reuters)- Two Chinese biotechs have axed plans to list in New York and instead aim to raise up to $ 800 million in Hong Kong IPOs, seeking to cash in on new rules to woo early - stage drug developers, sources said.

Because labeling laws on homeopathy are so different from regulations on real medicine with proven ingredients, the only actual drug in a bottle of homeopathic medicine — ethanol, the same active ingredient in vodka — doesn't have to be listed as a drug.

In December, Tehrani signed a deal with GlaxoSmithKline that will allow the pharmaceutical giant to test at least four of its drug candidates on a Zymeworks - designed platform, which combines a computer simulation with a way of engineering protein molecules and allows products to be refined before they move to expensive clinical trials.

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.

Traditional drug giants have caught on to the not - so - dirty little secret that outsourcing drug research (and in - licensing) may be a more effective strategy than trying to create groundbreaking new molecules within the confines of a single lab.

NEW YORK, May 1 - Pfizer Inc on Tuesday reported lower - than - expected first - quarter revenue as demand for some key drugs and international sales fell short of estimates, sparking a 5.1 percent drop in shares of the largest U.S. drugmaker.

May 1 - Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi will cut the net price of their expensive cholesterol drug for Express Scripts customers in exchange for greater patient access, with some savings to be shared with consumers, the companies said on Tuesday.

However... «if Amazon were successful in changing the brand pricing model to be based on «net» price versus the current gross model, we estimate a portion of rebates and other supply chain discounts currently being retained by plan sponsors, PBMs, and to a lesser degree drug distributors could pass back to consumers.»

Cramer was also burned on Pfizer's aborted takeover bid for drug company Allergan, which had an overseas taxation rate that would allow the company to pay lower taxes than if it were based in the U.S.

One biotech firm, Ossianix, is already hard at work developing a VNAR - based drug - delivery system, in collaboration with the global pharmaceutical company Lundbeck, which focuses on drugs for brain disorders.

That bleak irony was hammered home earlier this month when John Boehner, a former leader in the political party that formally initiated the War on Drugs, joined the advisory board of a marijuana firm.