Sentences with phrase «pharmaceutical companies use»

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.

That's a fear tactic pharmaceutical companies use to get you on their statins.

The materials that pharmaceutical companies use to test drugs» effects on cells don't allow for three - dimensional vascularization, a network of capillaries that carry drugs and other materials throughout the body.

And that's why pharmaceutical companies use prayer to develop therapies to heal the sick.

Not exact matches

Zayna Khayat, senior adviser for Health System Innovation at MaRS, uses the analogy of pharmaceutical companies» armies of salespeople.

For Theranos to take lab - testing business from the two major lab companies used by doctors, Quest and LabCorp, and to partner to run tests for more hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies, it has to show it can get it right at every stage, from the preparation before it pricks someone's finger to the accurate processing of hundreds of thousands of samples.

Martin Shkreli, unaffectionately known as the «pharma bro» — and infamous for his decision to hike the list price of Daraprim, a drug used by HIV / AIDS and cancer patients to combat infections, by more than 5,000 % in 2015 under his former company Turing Pharmaceuticals — was convicted on three criminal securities fraud and conspiracy charges by a Brooklyn jury on Friday.

«And as long as that happens, your insurance company is not going to pay your bill if you take a drug and the pharmaceuticals are not going to develop the drugs because if nobody is going to pay for their use, why spend the money on that?»

The company is currently working with a major pharmaceutical firm to print lung airways for use in testing medications to combat airway fibrosis, a condition that kills 100,000 Americans a year.

Mylan is one of only a few public companies, and the only publicly - traded pharmaceutical maker, that uses these tax credits, a Reuters review of a comprehensive database of filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission found.

Its primary use is to treat rare infantile spasms, but the company that makes it, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, is promoting its use for 18 other treatments too.

The list is topped by pharmaceutical maker Novo Nordisk, Brazil's Natura Cosmeticos, Norwegian energy company Statoil, the Danish biotech firm Novozymes, and ASML Holding, a Dutch manufacturer of photolithography machines used in the semiconductor industry.

But the company is also developing products that use pharmaceutical cannabinoids, a synthetic version of marijuana.

Brendan Kennedy, the cofounder of Privateer Holdings, which owns various marijuana companies like Marley Natural and Canadian pharmaceutical - grade cannabis producer Tilray, explains how Tilray is already exporting marijuana to countries like Croatia and Australia for use in clinical trials.

EFF defended the free speech and fair use rights of an online newsletter publisher after the world's third largest pharmaceutical company that accused him of trademark infringement and cybersquatting.

J&J generates billions of dollars in annual sales from selling consumer goods, such as Band - Aid products, and medical devices used in surgeries, but it's the company's pharmaceuticals business that determines whether the company's results are better or worse than anticipated.

The Company's academic, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical customers use its consumable products and services in laboratory applications and in biopharmaceutical manufacturing.»

The company announced agreements to use the Oncomine Dx Target Test in drug development programs with Daiichi Sankyo, Takeda, and Spectrum Pharmaceuticals.

Earlier this year, Sen. Claire McCaskill released the findings of a report that found that five major pharmaceutical companies paid millions to patient groups to support «amplified messages favorable to increased opioid use.»

While there is still some debate as to what causes these disorders in children, the intervention of natural medicine, rather than those mass - produced by pharmaceutical companies, is being used more and more throughout treatment programs.

The company also manufactures machines that are used in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

Compassion has driven a push to legalise the medicinal use of cannabis but debate is raging about whether big pharmaceutical companies, small start - ups or backyard growers will win the lucrative right to supply what could be a big market.

The scale that scientists use to describe a chili's heat was developed in 1912 by Wilbur Scoville, a chemist at Parke - Davis pharmaceutical company in Detroit.

And are doctors that are speaking out on this issue in any way affiliated as spokespersons for either the food or pharmaceutical companies that stand to benefit from the continued use of these food dyes in foods?

Nevada and five other states are filing new lawsuits accusing a Connecticut - based pharmaceutical company of using deceptive marketing to boost drug sales that fueled opioid overdose deaths.

As POLITICO New York reported earlier this month, State Sen. Diane Savino is introducing legislation that aims to better educate doctors on the use of medical marijuana, similar to how representatives for pharmaceutical companies showcase their product to physicians.

Cuomo said pharmaceutical companies are the root cause of the opioid problem because the industry promoted the use of painkillers and helped make them widely available.

That is why we are using the legal system to bring this deadly epidemic back to the corporations that started it — the pharmaceutical companies,» he said.

Shimsky, a Hastings - on - Hudson Democrat who first introduced the plan on June 19, told the Review the legislation would be directed against a number of pharmaceutical companies that have used deceptive marketing of opioid painkillers, seeking punitive and compensatory damages for the costs already expended by Westchester County.

Other reforms Hawkins is calling for include a windfall tax on pharmaceutical companies» opioid wealth, a surtax on high - dollar pass - through income from LLCs and other pass - through vehicles, a clawback of the new federal tax cuts if not used to increase workers» pay, home rule for local income taxes, and tax credit «circuit breakers» to protect low - to - moderate income tenants and homeowners from unaffordable rents and property taxes.

Since my university had a colony of balding stump - tailed male macaques that had been used in previous hair - restoration studies, the pharmaceutical company provided additional funds to test this product on the macaques.

The technology has been licensed to Cambridge spin - out company TeraView, who are developing it for use in the pharmaceutical industry in order to make medicines that are more easily released in the body.

Many universities and pharmaceutical companies are engaged in research and development using genetically modified mice that have certain genes manipulated to reproduce human diseases.

Respondents in this year's survey pointed to five main causes of the field's less than favorable reputation: drug and product recalls such as the withdrawal of Avandia; safety issues such as the discovery of problems with raw material from China used in medical products; scandals, including evidence that pharmaceutical companies have failed to release data from trials whose results cast doubts on their drugs» safety and efficacy; lawsuits brought against companies that failed to warn patients of problems with their products; and ethical issues such as kickbacks for physicians promoting specific medications.

In recent years, escalating costs and increased global competition have led pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to start using contractors — temporary employees who work for a contracted period of time — in jobs previously held by permanent employees.

The BMJ also notes that three scientists who were involved in the preparation of a 2004 WHO document, WHO Guidelines on the Use of Vaccines and Antivirals during Influenza Pandemics, had received payments from pharmaceutical companies, including research funding, or consultancy or speaker fees.

«We are a medical pharmaceutical company, and the leeches have been used medicinally for centuries.»

A temperature of -78 degrees Celsius is a bit low for pharmaceutical companies, and the first experiments in the Groningen lab used an ether - based solvent.

However, I used the time to get a job with a big German pharmaceutical company, where I've been working in the patent department, dealing mainly with biotechnology patents and communicating with patent offices and attorneys all over the world.

Health care, pharmaceutical, and medical device companies use the high - quality and scientifically accurate 2D and 3D animations, illustrations, and Web - enabled content to explain their scientific discoveries to their clients at medical symposiums, for internal communications, and as marketing materials.

In addition, pharmaceutical companies are now using microarrays to expedite the drug discovery process.

Sigman is collaborating with a major pharmaceutical company to use the new technique to improve chemical reactions for drug manufacturing.

The Swiss - based pharmaceutical company said that it had made 10 liters of vaccine that it will use in pre-clinical studies and maybe early clinical trials.

UIC has licensed intellectual property related to the experimental drug treatment used in the study to the pharmaceutical company RespireRx.

Ingber says he and his colleagues are now contacting pharmaceutical companies to find out how the device can best be used.

The researchers used a version of this approach to isolate and grow new bacterial colonies — many scooped out of soil in the backyard of microbiologist Losee Ling, who leads research and development at the startup company NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals, formed to commercialize their approach.

DeCode is now negotiating with some of the world's largest pharmaceuticals companies, which hope to use deCode's genetic insights to design new drugs.

He illustrated the effect the law has on the economy with the case of the pharmaceuticals company Hoechst, which has been waiting for a licence to produce insulin using biotechnology for eight years.

Yu is now collaborating with the pharmaceutical company Bristol - Myers Squibb to use his meta - C - H activation techniques to make potential new drug compounds.

This particular type of cell - based HTS assay is used by many of the fast - track biotechs and pharmaceutical companies, and they take good care of their people.