"Pharmaceutical firms" refers to companies or businesses that specialize in the development, production, and sale of medicines or drugs for medical purposes.
Full definition
Major pharmaceuticals firms also engage in research and development, but tend to focus more on manufacturing and marketing an existing portfolio of drugs than the typical biotech firm.
Example A
large pharmaceutical firm plans to launch a new product it believes will significantly increase its revenue in a short period of time.
Such a trial could cost tens of millions of dollars, and getting financial backing
from pharmaceutical firms would probably be difficult, given that blood is not a treatment that could be patented.
With health care remaining a major issue in today's political and financial world,
big pharmaceutical firms have been under the microscope for some time.
In health care,
major pharmaceutical firms have shown improved performance, making continued pipeline development essential to future return prospects.
In the US, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is challenging the agreements, suing several
pharmaceutical firms in the courts.
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.
But as bioethicist Carl Elliott shows in White Coat, Black Hat, Bernays's strategy guides the tactics used
by pharmaceutical firms today.
Sullivan & Cromwell, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson and Morgan Lewis & Bockius have taken the lead roles on German
pharmaceuticals firm Bayer's $ 14.2 bn (# 8.4 bn) acquisition of US rival Merck's consumer care business.
As a specific example of the concern he notes that Novartis, the
giant pharmaceutical firm based in Basel, recently shifted its focus of R&D to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
This year like all others, scientists want to work at companies that keep innovation front and center, and the top 20 employers in 2015 include those biotechnology and
pharmaceutical firms on the leading edge of these advances.
John Rountree, managing partner at Novasecta, discusses the fallout of a disappointing breast cancer drug trial for
pharmaceutical firm Roche.
GSK has been fined alongside a raft of
other pharmaceutical firms for paying rival drug makers to delay the release of their competing drugs into the UK marketplace between 2001 and 2004.
Sullivan & Cromwell, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson and Morgan Lewis & Bockius have taken the lead roles on
German pharmaceuticals firm Bayer's $ 14.2 bn acquisition of US rival Merck's consumer care business.
The continent's pension funds, meanwhile, face a tougher challenge paying for their members» retirement, as early September saw the world's first negative - yielding corporate bonds, issued by
French pharmaceutical firm Sanofi and German cement maker Henkel.
Several pharmaceutical firms, including Alkermes Inc., Parke - Davis, Pfizer, and Novartis, have brought in Mundel to shake up their research and development programs and streamline the process of translating basic research into new drugs.
Other occupations are using A.I. in tandem with people: Lawyers use software that can analyze cases and search for relevant past rulings;
pharmaceutical firms use algorithms to aid in drug discovery.
Global companies founded in Europe like food giant Nestle, based in Switzerland, or
pharmaceutical firms like Novartis or Astra - Zeneca, an Anglo - Swedish group, show that Europe can think big and beyond its frontiers too.
Left is known for writing explosive reports into companies like the
Canadian pharmaceutical firm Valeant, arguing that investors should short them.
In R (Eisai Ltd) v NICE & Ors the court ruled that NICE had acted unfairly in refusing to allow
pharmaceutical firms Eisai and Pfizer access to a «fully executable» version of the economic model it had used when deciding that the drug Aricept should not be prescribed on the NHS to patients with mild Alzheimer's disease.
Labour leader Ed Miliband has called for a «proper, independent assessment» into the attempted takeover of the UK
pharmaceuticals firm AstraZeneca by its US rival Pfizer.
Previously,
Indian pharmaceutical firms - expected to be worth # 40 billion by 2020 - would tend to base their European operations in London because it was where the European Medicines Agency was based.
Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare today asked public prosecutors to investigate a possible criminal violation of drug marketing laws by the Japan subsidiary of the giant
Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis.
Here he plays Harold, a decent but all - too - credulous immigrant from Nigeria who works as a manager in the
Chicago pharmaceuticals firm of which Edgerton and Theron are co-CEOs.
A drug delivery shortfall from
pharmaceutical firm Sandoz Canada is expected to affect the drug supply (for anywhere from a few weeks to a couple of months) of many common injectable medications in hospitals across the country.
Whitehead first encountered flibanserin (Addyi's chemical name) via the Sexual Medicine Society's annual fall conference; German
pharmaceutical firm Boehringer Ingelheim had developed the drug in consultation with Dr. Irwin Goldstein, director of sexual medicine at San Diego's Alvarado Hospital and an influential crusader for Viagra and other sexual dysfunction treatments.
Because of the likelihood that pursuing an acquisition will boost a company's revenue growth and thus its share price, investors have increasingly been
pressuring pharmaceutical firms such as Gilead Sciences (GILD) and Teva to strike deals.
The No. 1 giver,
pharmaceutical firm Gilead, scored a D on a brand index developed by Fortune - Morning Consult, among the lowest of any Fortune 500 company.
Dr. David Vaughn, head of pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) external research and development, North America, said that the average cost and time — nearly a decade — to get a new drug on the market «has pushed the bigger
pharmaceutical firms away from making them.»
Remember that this was all going down in 2015, right when the fury
over pharmaceutical firms jacking up drug prices was rising to the public's attention and taking hold of Washington.
The project is to take place under the auspices of the Center for Supply Chain Studies, with the goal of
bringing pharmaceutical firms into compliance with the Drug Supply Chain Security Act, passed in 2013.
In the letter, the antitrust bureau chief for New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman asked Shkreli to contact the office «immediately» to respond to concerns that the company's sales practices were intended to deter
generic pharmaceutical firms from creating alternatives to the drug.
The Catholic MP linked to an Indonesian firm which manufacturer a pill which causes terminations, has dumped stock he held in a
different pharmaceutical firm in India, which also sells abortion drugs.
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