Sentences with phrase «over pharmaceutical drug»

The FDA does have some authority to oversee dietary supplements but not nearly the strict regulatory power that it has over pharmaceutical drugs.

Not exact matches

The company's $ 150 million settlement agreement was the largest and most severe of its kind involving a drug wholesaler, or any member of the pharmaceutical supply chain over violations of the Controlled Substances Act.

Valeant has been at the center of a political firestorm over prescription medication costs and pharmaceutical companies, which depend more on acquiring or licensing existing therapies (and then raising their prices) rather than fueling R&D into new drugs.

Over in the House of Representatives, Democrats have also been hot on the tail of pharmaceutical companies that have jacked up the prices of some of their drugs, though they've making less headway than their Senate bipartisan counterparts.

A month earlier drugmaker ICN Pharmaceuticals actually pleaded guilty to one count of criminal fraud for intentionally misleading investors — over many years, it now seems — about the FDA approval status of its flagship drug, ribavirin.

Takeda's negotiations to acquire Valeant Pharmaceuticals International's Salix stomach - drug business have stalled over price disagreements, Reuters reported in November, citing people familiar with the matter.

The 32 - year - old CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals became a target of widespread ire in September when he boosted the price of the toxoplasmosis treatment Daraprim by over 5,000 % after acquiring the drug in August.

And the defiant stance actually may have boosted the drug maker's image at a time when Americans are skeptical about the pharmaceutical industry over high drug prices.

Investors couldn't chalk up the selloff to the concerns over drug - price gouging that have depressed other pharmaceutical shares: Zoetis zts, after all, makes medications for dogs — whose health care costs have yet to inspire Senate investigations.

Ricks also addressed President Donald Trump's decision to lambast pharmaceutical companies over the price of prescription drugs, in his State of the Union address Tuesday evening.

Deals with pharmaceutical makers to package the Biojector 2000 with specific drugs — including those being used in clinical trials — give it a clear advantage over some competing devices, says Bioject CEO Jim O'Shea.

The investors are frustrated that shares in Jazz, a $ 9 billion pharmaceutical company known for its narcolepsy drug Xyrem, have remained essentially flat over the past year.

This is quite a big deal as Valeant bought Sprout Pharmaceuticals, the company behind the drug for a whopping $ 1 billion just over two years ago.

By acquiring Humana, Walmart gains preferential access to seniors through Humana Medicare advantage, and leverage over pharmaceutical manufacturers to negotiate for lower drug prices.

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.

Specialty pharmaceuticals have contributed substantially to the rise in the nation's drug costs over the last several years, and these costs are projected to increase by more than 65 % by the end of 2017.

In response to the outrage over what appears to be blatant price gouging on the part of Turing Pharmaceuticals, the company's founder and CEO Martin Shkreli has announced that Turing will be lowering the price of the drug Daraprim after raising it from $ 13.50 to $ 750 per tablet overnight.

Bayer said in a statement that it doesn't control the cost for patients at the pharmacy, because copays are determined by insurers and pharmacy - benefit managers — an argument that pharmaceuticals companies have long made when facing criticism over drug prices.

For instance, pharmaceutical giant Roche's recently introduced HIV - inhibitor drug, Fuzeon, costs just over $ 20,000 per year.

As drug patents begin to roll off and scrutiny around drug prices increased over the summer, many pharmaceutical company's struggled.

Plus, lauric acid is essentially non-toxic, which gives it a distinct advantage over modern pharmaceutical drugs that are typically used to fight viruses, bacterial infections and fungal infections (I mean, heck, I'd rather down some coconut oil over conventional drugs any day!).

Carlyle bought prescription and over the counter drug maker iNova Pharmaceuticals for $ 930 million last June, in conjunction with Australian buyout firm Pacific Equity Partners.

Upstate Pharmacy, a leading distributor of pharmaceutical drugs, is planning to expand its West Seneca base of operations and add 10 jobs over two years.

Over the past year, Kaloyeros has been working with local officials, including those at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, to develop plans announced by Cuomo in December to invest $ 50 million in state funds to build and equip a pharmaceutical drug research and development center at the downtown medical campus.

And before the drug failed, Innate said in corporate filings it was looking to possibly be taken over by a larger pharmaceutical firm.

The agency is confronting pressure from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to streamline and speed up the drug application process, budgetary concerns stemming from relatively stagnant public funding over the last several years, and disputes over subjects ranging from biological warfare to the regulation of genetically modified foods.

Of the $ 2,836,088 in «direct public support» the NSF received in 2005 (the most recent IRS disclosure I could find), it seems that $ 470,000 came from Pfizer, which in 2005 was primping for the debut of the sleep - aid drug Indiplon, which it has since dropped; $ 299,000 came from GlaxoSmithKline, makers of Sominex; $ 152,000 from King Pharmaceuticals (Sonata); $ 596,670 from Sanofi Aventis (Ambien); $ 471,800 from Takeda Pharmaceuticals (Rozerem); $ 133,183 from Sepracor (Lunesta); $ 100,000 from the hepcats over at Jazz Pharmaceuticals, who make the narcolepsy drug Xyrem; and $ 100,000 from Cephalon, maker of another drug used for narcolepsy, Provigil.

Over its history, Celgene has made a number of diverse acquisitions to expand its portfolio of cancer drugs, most recently purchasing Abraxane maker Abraxis Pharmaceuticals in 2010.

By 2000, pharmaceutical pipelines were filled with «me too» drugs that offered low risk and a quick route to approval, but only marginal improvement over drugs already available.

In the past two decades, the pharmaceutical industry has spent over $ 2.5 billion to develop new schizophrenia drugs.

Dr. Djaballah has significant industrial experience in preclinical drug discovery, gained over the years in pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

Dec. 18, 2017 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and engineers have developed a «brain - on - a-chip» device aimed at testing and predicting the effects of biological and chemical agents, disease or pharmaceutical drugs on the brain over time without the need for human or animal subjects.

Is it any wonder then why so many people turn to expensive and often dangerous pharmaceutical drugs as well as over the counter alternatives to alleviate and combat symptoms that have caused more than 104.7 million ambulatory care visits and 20 million surgical procedures.

Illness, obesity, pharmaceuticals, street drugs, toxins, depression, anxiety, a loss of connection, a lack of communication, and an abundance of negativity and hopelessness has taken over.

Naturopathy has also been the subject of a fair amount of controversy over the years, with some researchers claiming that it was dangerous to believe in use of it as opposed to more «mainstream» or conventional pharmaceutical drugs.

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

Sluggish Liver / Gall bladder If you have experienced any liver disease, such as hepatitis, consumed excessive alcohol or taken recreational or pharmaceutical drugs on a regular basis, or eaten high fat or sugar - laden foods over time, then your liver could be compromised.

With over thirty - nine debilitating symptoms possible in the fibromyalgia picture, treating each symptom with a pharmaceutical drug ends up with chemical cocktail, drained finances, and no true results.

Most follow through, but some want it resolved quickly but that's impossible, especially when they present with over a dozen pharmaceutical drugs they have been prescribed.

Hopes and dreams for a happy family are now dashed as they face the future of being labeled as a criminals for choosing a natural healing plant over dangerous pharmaceutical drugs.

Naturopath William Vayda advised readers to discard their usual aversion to pharmaceutical drugs in the case of Nystatin, in view of its superiority over natural treatments for the systemic elimination Candida albicans.

It's why there are, you know, that's why even if I do not feel that our government should not be controlling drugs and pharmaceuticals per se, you know it's the reason for President Bush I believe it was, who signed it, the anabolic steroid control act, in the process that really controlled a lot of these pro hormones from getting distributed willingly you know, over here in America because they can be so dangerous and most of them, if you're gonna order them you got ta go over to like world-pharma.org and order them from the European Union just because they're more available over there so if you wan na order like Andro or any of these pro hormones, something like that, usually you're gonna be getting it from Europe.

Like so many pharmaceutical drugs, by suppressing the secretion of stomach acid, these drugs do help alleviate heartburn in the acute sense, but over the long term, they actually make things worse.

Sequoia staked its fate to the performance of Valeant Pharmaceuticals, a firm adored by hedge fund managers and Sequoia — which plowed over a third of its portfolio into the stock — for its singular strategy: buy small drug companies with successful niche medicines, then skyrocket the price of those drugs.

It also benefits already sick animals by giving them access to incredibly expensive treatment — sometimes over $ 100,000 — that their owners likely wouldn't have been able to afford, all at the expense of the pharmaceutical company testing the drug.

It's been an insane week for MOBAs, as it turns out that Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shrekli (the guy who bought an AIDS drug and raised the price by over 5,000 %) recently set up an e-sports organisation with its fingers in both League of Legends and Dota 2.

Concern over possible side effects from Actos, technically named pioglitazone, including bladder cancer, has been the basis for lawsuits against the drug manufacturer Takeda Pharmaceuticals.

In September, a US district judge rejected the efforts of a number of pharmaceutical companies to have over 50 drug injury lawsuits over the medication dismissed because they say that the statute of limitations had passed a long time ago.

Legal Post Class - action suit against Pfizer Canada over anti-smoking drug Champix to proceed OTTAWA — A class - action lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Canada over its anti-smoking drug Champix will proceed, an Ontario Superior Court has ruled.

A little over a year after her death, the estate of Shirley Boles has reached a confidential damage award agreement with pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. over injuries she sustained from the drug Fosamax.