«The intensifying battle for negotiating power and market share will lead companies to do acquisitions across traditional industry boundary lines,» said Erik Gordon, a professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan who
studies the drug industry.
Not exact matches
Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on
drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card
industry; a
study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.
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.
RBT contracted Medicus Research, the premier contract research organization for the Dietary Supplement, Functional Foods and Botanical
Drug industries, to perform a comprehensive analysis of independent
studies conducted on behalf of RBT to substantiate numerous important health claims for its proprietary and process patented rice bran derivatives and products.
A
study commissioned by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America — the trade organization representing the
drug industry — warns that Cuomo's plan will drive up health care costs, harm New York consumers and could worsen the addiction crisis.
Notes to Editors The report, «How alcohol
industry organisations mislead the public about alcohol and cancer», by Mark Petticrew, Nason Maani Hessari, Cécile Knai and Elisabete Weiderpass, will be published online in
Drug and Alcohol Review at 22:00 6 September 2017 The Institute of Alcohol
Studies is an independent institute bringing together evidence, policy and practice from home and abroad to promote and informed debate on alcohol's impact on society.
A new
study published online by JAMA Oncology quantifies
industry financial conflicts of interest (FCOIs) among authors of National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines, work that influences practice and defines
drugs reimbursable by Medicare.
«The data from a publicly funded
study may be good, but you don't have anyone out there pushing that
study data, versus thousands of people doing it for the
drug companies,» says Kevin Brode, a former vice president at marketRx, a firm that provides strategic marketing information to the pharmaceutical
industry.
A 2002
study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that 87 percent of guideline authors received
industry funding and 59 percent were paid by the manufacturer of a
drug affected by the guidelines they wrote.
Although SB 247464 doesn't work with human cells, the discovery will spur the pharmaceutical
industry's search for protein - mimicking
drugs, says Mark Goldsmith, who
studies cytokine receptors at the University of California, San Francisco.
«What a great loss this is to the agency and the
industry,» says Kenneth Kaitin, director of the Center for the
Study of
Drug Development at Tufts University in Boston.
Butler advises graduate students interested in
industry to do two things: complete an internship at a company and make sure that they attend critical conferences related to
drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics — such as the International Society for the
Study of Xenobiotics.
The
study from Bentley's Center for Integration of Science and
Industry examined all of the
drugs approved by the FDA from 2010 - 2014.
Furthermore, the findings of the
study may be used by the
drug industry.
Latin temperaments look to their doctors for
drugs, not advice, says Claude Le Pen, an economist at the University of Paris, Dauphine, who
studies the pharmaceuticals
industry.
Because governments sensitive to the wishes of the pharmaceutical
industry appear unwilling to ban an array of
drugs or force safety testing, his organization is now
studying how vultures react to a variety of painkillers.
Just as many authors of the new psychiatry «bible» are tied to the
drugs industry as those who worked on the previous version, a
study has found, despite new transparency rules.
«We have bioengineered micro-scale heart tissues with a method that can easily be reproduced, which will enable scientists in stem cell biology and the
drug industry to
study heart cells in their proper context,» said first author Nathaniel Huebsch, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Conklin lab at Gladstone.
A joint
industry / academia
study of a cancer target protein reveals unusual relation between binding site flexibility and
drug - target lifetime.
The complete list is: the Food Research Center; the Center for Research, Teaching, and Innovation in Glass; the Center for Research and Development of Functional Materials; the Brazilian Research Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology; the Center for Research on Inflammatory Diseases; the Center for Research and Innovation in Biodiversity and
Drug Discovery; the Center for Research on Toxins, Immune Response, and Cell Signaling; the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics; the Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences Applied to
Industry; the Obesity and Co-Morbidities Research Center; the Center for Cell - Based Therapy; the Center for Metropolitan
Studies; the Human Genome and Stem - Cell Research Center; the Center for Computational Science and Engineering; the Center for Research on Redox Processes in Biomedicine; the Center for the
Study of Violence; and the Optics and Photonics Research Center.
The outcome of
studies like these have generated excitement amongst the pharmaceutical
industry and
drug regulation so that we can further our understanding of the fundamental basis of
drug - induced liver injury.»
Research on secondhand smoke conducted by researchers with
industry ties is 88 times more likely to find no harm;
industry - funded
studies comparing cholesterol
drugs are 20 times more likely to favor the sponsor's
drug.
Small
study size, design flaws, publication bias (failure to publish negative results or duplication of positive results),
drug -
industry influence, and the play of chance were among the problems Ioannidis found that caused false or exaggerated claims.
The chemical reactions she has developed are widely used throughout the pharmaceutical
industry to create new
drug candidates, are being
studied by chemical companies interested in accessing important chemicals used in farming, and are being utilized to prepare a type of chemical (tracer) that allows doctors to view the heart's sympathetic nervous system through positron emission tomography (PET) scans.
ORLANDO - The natural fetal estrogen estetrol, also called E4, is being tested as a new
drug that may help treat advanced prostate cancer, according to an ongoing
industry - sponsored
study from the Netherlands.
In order to further support collaboration between patient advocacy organizations and
industry in the context of
drug development, a
study published in the Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases describes recommended best practices and standards to support such collaborations.
Since favorable results would be financially destructive to the
drug and hospital
industries, a cynic might suggest that vested interests were at work in Sesso's
study intending to discredit vitamin C (as documented many times in the past with examples of corporate influence in medical research).
The section on Alzheimer's is particularly compelling, and it points out the pitfalls in relying on previous
studies done by the statin
industry, where often those who have memory problems as side - effects of the statin
drugs are excluded from the
study, so that the results end up inappropriately biased in favor of statins.
There are hundreds of published
studies demonstrating the anti-cancer power of curcumin, but because the pharmaceutical
industry hasn't figured out how to make a patentable FDA - approved
drug out of it, curcumin can not be used in cancer treatment.
I strongly suspect that this is because statins do not influence particle size, and many if not most medical «
studies» are funded by the pharmaceutical
industry to sell
drugs.
In my corner of the
industry, all of our
studies are focused on real world application of these products — that is to say, we are monitoring patients using
drugs that have been approved and are available for regular consumption — not just a clinical trial.
Some states have authorized the
study of industrial hemp as an
industry, while others have simply asked the Feds to relax draconian
drug laws.
Represented consulting firm investigation of alleged «science - for - sale» in
industry - funded
studies on health effects of certain
drugs and chemicals.
Differences in reporting serious adverse events in
industry sponsored clinical trial registries and journal articles on antidepressant and antipsychotic
drugs: a cross-sectional
study