Sentences with phrase «spent on these drugs»

A fortune is made and spent on drugs to treat medical conditions — from stomach ulcers to headaches — that are caused or aggravated by stress.

Since 1996 state spending on the drug had jumped from $ 11,000 to $ 2 million in 2002 as Purdue and its partners used office meetings, lunches and dinners to convince doctors of the wonders of the drug.

If you give them money, will they spend it on drugs and alcohol?

The San Francisco study actually found that 94 percent of panhandlers spend whatever money they get on food, compared to just 44 percent who spend it on drugs or alcohol.

The time and money you are investing in your current health will be a lot more joyful than the time and money you would spend on drugs, doctors, and hospitals if you choose not to live a healthy lifestyle.

Although the pharmaceutical industry, like the rest of the business world, has suffered a slowdown, the market research company Frost and Sullivan still expects spending on drug discovery to expand from US$ 19.6 billion in 2002 to US$ 25.6 billion by 2006, an annual growth rate of about 6 %.

The NYSCF Array will cut down years of time and billions of dollars currently spent on drug development and clinical trials to ultimately accelerate the approval of new drugs and therapies by regulatory agencies.

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

Then there were the nights he forced me to spend on his drug dealer's couch because going home on my own meant I was «cheating on him.»

All proceeds from this book will be spent on drugs and super hot laser...

Just imagine if 10 % of money spent on climate science were spent on drug rehab; we would lose far less people to addiction.

Not exact matches

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.

Roughly 80 % of the spending growth on these patent - protected drugs was offset by rebates and price concessions.

Spending on new drugs for those diseases is expected to rise 7 % in 2018, and it's less due to price hikes as it is for the high prices associated with these specialty therapies.

As part of its deal last year to buy Sprout Pharmaceuticals and the Addyi drug, Valeant committed to spend $ 200 million on sales and other expenses through June 2017 (see page 13).

According to Industry Canada, Big Pharma spends more than $ 1.3 billion a year on R&D — and many global drug makers are increasingly looking at Canada for top talent and a cost - competitive advantage over the United States.

By virtually every measure, prohibition of cannabis with high THC commonly known as marijuana and the variant with no recreational drug potential commonly known as hemp has cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars in missed business opportunities and wasted resources spent unsuccessfully fighting the so - called war on drugs.

«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?»

He added that the media focuses on examples of individual drug price hikes, it has overlooked the fact that expense of drugs as a proportion of healthcare spending has remained «remarkably constant» over the years.

Merck says it's working with doctors to acclimate them to the diagnostic, which could prevent wasteful spending on a costly drug which may not benefit all patients.

Last year the drug industry spent over $ 100 million on those ubiquitous adverts featuring Moose et al..

In the last of those years, the reporters discovered, the federal government actually spent more on urine - based drug tests than it did on «the four most recommended cancer screenings combined.»

According to a study published last year by the National Bureau of Economic Research, American consumers are spending an estimated extra $ 44 billion a year on brand - name drugs, health care items and pantry goods.

Doctors and hospitals spend more than $ 90 million each year on cancer - fighting drugs.

If I had more money I would probably just develop a cocaine addiction and spend all my money on drugs and women willing to exchange their affections to feed their habits» He had nothing after that.

I spent hundreds of hours with Leo doing everything you could imagine, from hanging out socially to showing him what it's like to be on drugs.

She says she spent far less time on drug discovery and far more time sorting out the changes and persuading committees to keep her programs going.

Eagle's Sassouni pointed out that since the big drug companies are losing billions of dollars every year to generic versions and have little to spend on their own research and development, they are looking to buy smaller biotechnology companies that are developing their own products.

A lot of people still think of the pharmaceutical industry as a free - spending behemoth that counted on a handful of brand - name drugs such as Lipitor, Viagra and Prozac to make up for all the misses.

But here's the problem for Valeant: According to its income statement, it spends just 3 % of its revenue on R&D, compared to about 15 % to 20 % for large drug companies.

Even if some of the money that Valeant has spent on acquisitions has made its way into funding new drug research, it's probably a small faction.

For industries like healthcare, Larsen points out that various studies have found that the most «satisfied» patients are also those who spent the most on prescription drugs and were 12 percent more likely to be admitted to hospitals.

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.

In January, Mallinckrodt raised its price to $ 36,382 a vial, according to the data provider Truven, but that wasn't far off what it cost back in 2015 when Medicare Part D, a prescription drug program, spent over $ 500 million on the drug, making it one of the top 20 expenses for the program, government data shows.

Count all the money Valeant has spent on acquisitions as drug research, and suddenly it has spent 200 % of its revenue over the past five years on R&D.

About 3 percent of students plan to use student loan money to fund vacations and another 3 percent will spend it on alcohol or drugs.

The IRS maintains a lengthy list of what counts as medical spending that includes some things you might expect, like fees paid to doctors or spending on prescription drugs.

Ross said she would give the accomplice a cut of the cash proceeds before calling her dealer and spending the rest on drugs.

Celgene also has in excess of 30 collaborations that help reduce what it spends on internal research and development while ensuring its cash only heads toward the most promising experimental drugs.

Athenex, which raised $ 68 million from a secondary stock offering during the quarter, finished the year with $ 51 million in cash and short - term investments, down from $ 69 million in September as the company spent heavily on clinical trials for the drugs it is developing and absorbed higher licensing fees at its specialty drug business, which has added 12 new drugs to its stable of products.

You earn 5 % cash back on up to $ 1,500 spent each quarter at select merchant categories such as gas stations, grocery stores and drug stores.

Payers will now have to spend millions of dollars «for a drug that's literally going in the trash can,» Meier said in an interview following up on his comments.

That may come as a surprise amid hand - wringing about the spiraling cost of health care, but two new studies, one from research company IMS Health and one from pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, show that the amount of money Americans spend on prescription drugs went down in 2012 for the first time in decades.

Regeneron spends significantly more than its peers on R&D, which — when combined with its elevated selling, general and administrative (SG&A) spending on recent drug launches — has caused its margins to look unusually low compared to its peers.

Hansel Tookes spent four years on a life - saving mission to convince Florida legislators to allow drug users in Miami to exchange dirty needles for clean ones.

Large companies (Big Pharma) spend considerable amounts on advertising and distribution, and often have large sales forces that promote their drugs to physicians to convince them to prescribe the drug.

Regeneron spends significantly more than its peers on R&D, and its selling, general and administrative (SG&A) spending is elevated, as a result of several recent drug launches.

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA, the trade group that advocates for drug companies, spent almost $ 10 million on lobbying in the first quarter of 2018, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

That cash doesn't include the money PhRMA's spending on the ongoing «Go Boldly» campaign, a series of TV, print and radio ads designed to polish the drug industry's image by reminding the public that drug companies do world - class research that brings disease cures to market to save lives.

The FBI tried to smear student activists by linking drug use with «Red Chinese» narcotics plots to «weaken» our youth; the CIA and the army, meanwhile, were secretly spending millions for LSD experiments on unsuspecting persons, several of whom died, and shredding the evidence afterward.