Sentences with phrase «significant number of drug»

A large number of these companies are clustered in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Saskatoon and provide a significant number of drug discovery jobs in those areas.

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Coming off a year that saw a record number of new drug approvals, significant scientific breakthroughs and a year - end tax reform package that both significantly lowers corporate taxes and provides the long - awaited tax repatriation holiday, it's not surprising that biotech investors, executives and advisers were in a good mood as they gathered in San Francisco this year for the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference.

This China Food and Drug Authority approval (CFDA), expected within weeks, is significant for any number of reasons — not least being that the company has flagged it expects to land take - or - pay contracts, backed by bank guarantees, from Chinese counter-parties (the second milestone).

Today, the Broome County District Attorney's office says a «significant number» of its cases are drug related.

Treatment with the diabetes drug liraglutide, in combination with diet and exercise, led to a significant reduction in weight and improved a number of cardiovascular risk factors, including high blood pressure and high cholesterol, according to a multicenter study.

Further, a significant percentage of these complex mutations are found in well - known cancer genes that could be targeted by existing drugs, potentially expanding the number of cancer patients who may benefit.

The researchers were studying a well - established mouse model that forms a significant number of CCMs following the injection of a drug to induce gene deletion.

Dr Lobo continues: «By using the medications we already have available and taking a personalised approach to prescribing these drugs — avoiding an «off the shelf» regime — it allowed patients to tolerate increased numbers of medications and ultimately resulted in significant and long lasting lowering of blood pressure.

«Rapid access to large quantities of neurons will be useful for testing a significant number of pharmacological drugs in order to identify those capable of preventing the death of motor neurons,» concludes Cécile Martinat.

«Southern Research Institute is well - known in the industry for having discovered a significant number of FDA - approved anti-cancer drugs, so it is only natural they would take an important leadership role in the advancement of this technology,» Porter said.

Perhaps the most important and significant characteristic of online learning is the fact that it provides successful training and knowledge accumulation in a very safe environment — a very significant necessity for the Pharmaceutical Industry, considering the usage of a large number of basic chemicals - particularly organic chemicals in the production of bulk drugs and drug intermediates in this Industry.

The chairman of the United States Equestrian Federation's veterinary and medications committees criticized the number of drugs; in this case, the trainer was not found liable but coverage by the New York Times in December 2012 has brought significant attention to the issue, with trainers being watched more closely in their uses of equine drugs.vii

The Court seems to require random testing to be supported by evidence of significant numbers of incidents involving alcohol (or drugs) and particularized evidence of the deterrent effect of the random testing policy balanced against the serious implications on the workers» rights to privacy (CEP at paras 45 - 51).

It found a significant «dosage» effect between the number of such experiences reported and increased risk, in adulthood, for cardiovascular, lung, and liver disease; depression; smoking; drug and alcohol abuse; obesity; risky sexual behaviors; and early mortality.