Sentences with phrase «than the pharmaceutical companies»

Yes, because the Pope is far less trustworthy than pharmaceutical companies that have convinced otherwise healthy women that they need to be dependent upon their products for the whole of their reproductive life.

Hirst is not trying to save contemporary art any more than the pharmaceutical companies are trying to cure cancer — it doesn't suit either of their ends.

While medical device companies generally fared better than pharmaceutical companies, there are still a lot of talented medical device reps out of work.

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Biotechnology companies tend to be smaller than pharmaceutical companies and more driven by research and development.

Not exact matches

After adjusting for rebates and other discounts offered by pharmaceutical companies, spending totaled $ 309.5 billion, 8.5 % higher than the previous year.

Channel stuffing, which is somewhat common in the pharmaceutical industry, often involves companies incentivizing distributors to buy more than they can likely sell.

Other than looking for a new CEO — the company announced on Monday its top executive Michael Pearson was stepping down — the troubled pharmaceutical company's most pressing problem is its debt, of which it has $ 30 billion.

Valeant has been at the center of a political firestorm over prescription medication costs and pharmaceutical companies, which depend more on acquiring or licensing existing therapies (and then raising their prices) rather than fueling R&D into new drugs.

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.

Over in the House of Representatives, Democrats have also been hot on the tail of pharmaceutical companies that have jacked up the prices of some of their drugs, though they've making less headway than their Senate bipartisan counterparts.

True, the state does have a wealth of pharmaceutical and health care companies (Merck, Wyeth, Merck), and a relatively high per capita GDP ($ 49,038), suggesting there's more money than usual to pay for health care.

Overall, the pharmaceutical industry, biotech companies, and medical device makers have given less money directly to Hillary Clinton's campaign than they had to President Obama's by this time four years ago.

Founded more than two centuries ago by small medicines vendor and namesake Chobei Takeda in Osaka, Japan, the company was that nation's largest pharmaceutical firm by revenue as of 2014.

Between 1995 and 2013, the top five pharmaceutical companies shed more than 55 percent of their salespeople in the United States.

The technologies they spin out have been licensed or sublicensed to more than 220 pharmaceutical, chemical, biotech, and medical device companies.

Concerns that a Hillary Clinton administration would impose greater price regulation on drug companies had put a damper on pharmaceutical stocks for more than a year.

Today, more than 15,000 people have taken Lactagen, an over-the-counter derivative of the formula Ritter cooked up, and his company, Ritter Pharmaceuticals, is about to launch trials for a prescription drug to treat lactose intolerance — an endeavor that can cost upward of $ 50 million before the FDA gives its OK.

The East Norriton, Pennsylvania, company, which consults for the pharmaceutical industry, is on track to reach more than $ 5 million in sales in 2008, up from $ 3 million in 2007.

Meanwhile, aggressive smaller pharmaceutical companies like Valeant openly brag about how they spend less than 3 % on R&D and 3 % on taxes.

Agios Pharmaceuticals shares plunged more than 18 percent after the company discontinued development of an experimental drug for rare blood disorder due to side effects seen in a study.

Like more than 10 million others worldwide, I depend on treatment advances to maximize my quality of life, and historically, large pharmaceutical companies have played a key role in spurring these advances.

Much of the problem, Miller explained, is that Americans are already shouldering more than their fair share of pharmaceutical companies» costs: While the U.S, accounts for only 4.6 % of the total world population, it makes up about 40 % of the world's drug spending, and the bulk of pharma companies» profits, he said.

But for Mr Fitzgibbon, the story is much greater than a simple focus on lowering costs and smoothing out complexity within the many - layered healthcare system, which includes pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies, large medical groups and insurers.

Since its formation in 2013, the Technology Gateway Network has completed more than 2,750 projects with more than 1,250 Irish - based companies on projects ranging from polymers to pharmaceuticals, photonics to mobile services and mechatronics, right through to biotechnology and industrial design.

Canadian cleantech companies outnumber those in both the aerospace and automotive industries, and employ more people than the forestry, pharmaceutical or medical device sectors.

Shares of KaloBios Pharmaceuticals Inc. surged more than 600 percent after the company said yesterday an investor group led by Shkreli had acquired a stake of more than 50 percent.

«Some of these companies seem to act more like hedge funds than traditional pharmaceutical companies,» said Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican who ran the recent hearing.

All I thought I knew at the time was that Pfizer was a pharmaceutical company but recently I learned that there is a lot more to it than just that.

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.

Some of India's largest companies have committed to investing more than C$ 250 million in Canada in the coming years in everything from pulp mills to pharmaceuticals and the IT sector.

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.

ColorMaker is an international company based in California, and has more than a decade of experience providing natural color solutions to companies in the food, pet food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and nutraceutical industries.

The company supports the food and beverage, automotive, pharmaceutical, and graphics packaging industries in more than 55 countries.

Antares Vision, a provider of serialization - based track and trace solutions for the pharmaceutical industry, held an open house celebrating the 10th anniversary of its North American operation to an audience of more than 100 guests representing pharma companies of all sizes.

EHS is the principal agency for the advertising, sponsorship, email, and mobile opportunities of more than 75 of the leading healthcare professional societies, associations, and media companies; consumer health sites; and other quality digital partners in the pharmaceutical / healthcare vertical.

Meet with more than 360 companies, including those specializing in pharmaceuticals, health care, infant nutrition, publications, computer technology, and recruiting to learn about their commercially available pediatric medical products and services.

Rep. Chris Collins dramatically increased his campaign fundraising in the first half of the year, and he took more money from health care and pharmaceutical companies than any other special interest at a time when he's under investigation for his ties to an Australian biotech firm.

Cuomo announced Thursday that Athenex, a cancer pharmaceuticals company, would invest more than $ 1.6 billion over 10 years, unveiling its North American headquarters in Buffalo and pledging to build a state - of - the - art factory in the Southern Tier.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Chris Collins dramatically increased his campaign fundraising in the first half of the year, and he took more money from health care and pharmaceutical companies than any other special interest at a time when he's under investigation for his ties to an Australian biotech firm.

But equating vaccines, which have saved countless lives, with pharmaceutical companies as a whole is a huge mistake, he says; it's an emotional response rather than one based on evidence.

Although networking opportunities with other scientists might be fewer in large pharmaceutical companies than they are in academia, the opportunity to publish postdoctoral research results is offered by some, but not all pharmaceutical companies.

So, I took a job as a research scientist in the analytical lab of a smaller chemistry - driven, discovery - based pharmaceutical company located in Vancouver, B.C. With fewer than 100 employees and no products on the market, it couldn't have been further from the formal corporate work environment I was accustomed to at a multinational company.

It consolidates five existing SFI research centers but brings onboard more than 40 different industry partners, including Abbott pharmaceuticals, the consulting firm Accenture, sportswear company Adidas, large multinational companies such as Intel and Microsoft, and media companies such as The Irish Times and Storyful.

In Chinese Medicine, Western Style, Jim Kling describes how Western pharmaceutical companies are building R&D facilities in China and thus expanding employment opportunities for researchers — but mostly for Chinese nationals trained in the West rather than Western scientists.

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.

For women, a drug that works between the ears is better than one that functions between the legs, a German pharmaceutical company has found.

Coming from Georgiou's lab also helped him, he thinks, because Georgiou's work is known for having a strong therapeutic bent: With 29 issued patents, more than half licensed to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, Georgiou has close ties with industry.

On average, a person working in a large pharmaceutical company will earn more than a person doing similar work in a biotech company.

«We have a more than century - old tradition of generating successful pharmaceutical companies and conducting clinical trials, and a decade of experience in creating biotechnology companies,» says Ole Frijs - Madsen, Director of Invest in Denmark (IDK).