Sentences with phrase «used by drug»

They take their nickname from the disposable, «burner» phones you see on TV and in movies being used by drug dealers and other bad guys.

As a rule, whatever is used by the drug dealers will become a mainstream currency, and they have been actively switching to Dash.

«Your Photographs Could Be Used By Drug Dealers».

Legend has it that the ship was used for transporting cement between Venezuela and Aruba but eventually was used by drug smugglers to ship in cocaine.

The project, which has been running for more than two years, employs some of the same methods used by drug companies.

These same tools can potentially be used by drug companies to identify new targets for treating many diseases and conditions.

We refer to these as «alerts»: they can be used by drug design experts to try to avoid certain interactions and / or structures in order to develop safer drugs,» says Aloy.

Furthermore, the findings of the study may be used by the drug industry.

[80] Ghanaian Drug War and The Narcotic Control Board Ghana is among the sovereign states of West Africa used by drug cartels and drug traffickers (shown in orange).

The website was used by drug dealers to put illicit drugs into our communities and literally at our doorsteps nationwide,» said DEA Special Agent in Charge, Brian R. Crowell.

Similar trends in biopharma M&A, which has disrupted business for third - party firms used by drug makers.

According to Dimon: [Bitcoin is] only fit for use by drug dealers, murderers and people living in places such as North Korea.

Not exact matches

The reversal of the Cole Memo, written by then - Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole in 2013 means that there will be more confusion about the legality of growing, selling, and using the drug in places where state and local laws clash with the federal government.

The drug targets a wider variety of defence mechanisms used by antibiotic - resistant bacteria and can be used in more situations.

While the tax bill has been promoted by Republicans as a job creator, the reality is that drug companies are more likely to return the money to shareholders, or use it to make acquisitions.

In between all the stories about drug use, police surveillance, and city councillors getting tackled by the mayor, there have been a few reports of otherwise innocent businesses getting swept up in the Ford scandal.

One approach used by Cubist is to target the enzymes produced by drug - resistant bacteria that degrade antibiotic agents and render them useless.

CASIS's mission is to encourage «use of this unparalleled platform for innovation» — and Merck is taking this to heart by experimenting with drug development in the realm of microgravity.

The key is to avoid a company that has only a few drugs in the pipeline that one day may or may not be approved for use by the FDA.

For years QHR Technologies (recently acquired by Loblaw Cos.» Shoppers Drug Mart) and Telus Health (a division of the telecom) fought tooth and nail to get health authorities to digitize patients» medical records using their respective systems.

GLP - 1 drugs are used to better control blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes, and are better known by the brand names: Victoza, Byetta, and Bydureon.

Shkreli originally became infamous for his other former company Turing Pharma's 5,000 % price hike for a drug used by cancer and AIDS patients.

But the initiative comes with another huge financial prize for firms that successfully win FDA approval for these niche therapies: a priority review voucher that can be used to slash the regulatory period for a different experimental specialty treatment being developed by a drug maker or, more often, sold for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to another pharma company.

These risks and uncertainties include, among others: the unfavorable outcome of litigation, including so - called «Paragraph IV» litigation and other patent litigation, related to any of our products or products using our proprietary technologies, which may lead to competition from generic drug manufacturers; data from clinical trials may be interpreted by the FDA in different ways than we interpret it; the FDA may not agree with our regulatory approval strategies or components of our filings for our products, including our clinical trial designs, conduct and methodologies and, for ALKS 5461, evidence of efficacy and adequacy of bridging to buprenorphine; clinical development activities may not be completed on time or at all; the results of our clinical development activities may not be positive, or predictive of real - world results or of results in subsequent clinical trials; regulatory submissions may not occur or be submitted in a timely manner; the company and its licensees may not be able to continue to successfully commercialize their products; there may be a reduction in payment rate or reimbursement for the company's products or an increase in the company's financial obligations to governmental payers; the FDA or regulatory authorities outside the U.S. may make adverse decisions regarding the company's products; the company's products may prove difficult to manufacture, be precluded from commercialization by the proprietary rights of third parties, or have unintended side effects, adverse reactions or incidents of misuse; and those risks and uncertainties described under the heading «Risk Factors» in the company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10 - K and in subsequent filings made by the company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission («SEC»), which are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.

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.

Taking dangerous quantities of the otherwise safe loperamide is one strategy being used by people addicted to opioid painkillers and other drugs since it can increase opioid absorption in the gut; the FDA says it is now working with loperamide manufacturers to change its packaging so that it comes with fewer doses and is thus harder to abuse.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is working with manufacturers to tweak the packaging of loperamide, a common OTC and prescription anti-diarrhea medication that is now also being used by people addicted to opioids to stem withdrawal symptoms or enhance their highs.

Resistance is also fueled by the massive and often inappropriate use of antibiotics in agriculture; for decades these precious drugs have been used to promote growth and fend off costly infections that can result from the cramped conditions of industrial - scale food animal production.

AmpliPhi and Adaptive Phage Therapeutics have successfully treated more than two dozen patients with life - threatening conditions and are currently treating a few others under an emergency use authorization granted by the US Food and Drug Administration.

If you haven't followed this story, you'll remember Shkreli from his fame two years ago, when his biotech firm, Turing Pharmaceuticals, acquired the patent to a drug used to treat malaria, cancer and aids, and jacked up the retail price by more than 5,000 percent.

The company is selling a thing (the kit) by saying it can provide «health reports on 254 diseases and conditions,» including categories such as «carrier status,» «health risks,» and «drug response,» and specifically as a «first step in prevention» that enables users to «take steps toward mitigating serious diseases» such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and breast cancer...» Most of the uses «listed on your website, a list that has grown over time,» the FDA writes, «are medical device uses [for the] Personal Genome Service.»

PET scanners help to reveal how tissues and organs are functioning by using a radioactive drug to trace activity.

«We have an agreement with them where we own the drug, but anything that's funded by the U.S. government, it reserves the right to use that under certain circumstances,» says Mark Murray, president and CEO of the Burnaby, B.C., company.

As alarm grows that the digital currency is being used by money - launderers, drug traffickers and terrorists.

The shift toward synthetics and opioids has been motivated by both marijuana legalization and by changing drug - use patterns in the US

However, it's far simpler to do consistent, smaller price hikes on drugs used by a far greater number of people in order to make up for revenue gaps.

Tree — who said the policy change restored a price support for growers by reintroducing a «federal risk premium» — told Business Insider that while consumers in states were marijuana was legal were probably used to a high - quality and tested product, he suspected cracking down on legal marijuana production and sales would incentivize trafficking of lower - quality marijuana to states where the drug is still illegal.

Intarcia has completed several late - stage clinical trials in which it uses the pump to deliver a glucose - controlling drug continuously for months — an idea, that if successful (and approved by the FDA) could significantly help patients with type 2 diabetes, fewer than half of whom maintain the recommended glycemic levels.

She said the research bill would «legalize fraud» by reducing the scientific evidence the government needs to approve existing drugs for new uses.

KFC, China's biggest restaurant chain with more than 4,000 outlets and plans to open 700 more this year, was hit hard by a report in December 2013 that some poultry suppliers violated rules on drug use in chickens.

The article described how an internal investigation conducted by a company executive, Dinesh Thakur, who went on to become a whistleblower, reported appalling deceit: Ranbaxy scientists substituted cheaper, lower - quality ingredients in place of better ingredients, manipulated test parameters, and even bought brand - name drugs and used them in place of their own generics to win FDA approval.

Marijuana's position in the top tier of the scheduling system — which organizes drugs by their «acceptable medical use and... abuse or dependency potential» — has endured since the 1970s.

Phase I funding — which allows up to $ 250,000 for an academic idea, such as decoding the genetic sequence of a protein or studying targeted drug delivery by using magnetic nanoparticles — is available from federal funding and foundations.

R - rated films limit their audiences based on excessive violence, sexual situations, drug use, and language, as determined by the MPAA.

It's also unclear that the increased marijuana use by pregnant women represents drug abuse; for instance, nausea and anxiety (both common among pregnancy) are among the most common symptoms of medical marijuana users, which may in part explain the increase in usage.

Best - known by its branded name Xanax, alprazolam is a drug that's approved used to treat anxiety and panic disorders, which are very common conditions.

Drug giant Johnson & Johnson has been hit with a $ 417 million verdict in the latest trial focusing on alleged links between talc - based products like its Johnson's Baby Powder, use by many for feminine hygiene, and ovarian cancer.

Kratom has been promoted as both a healing cure for opioid addiction as well as a drug to be added on to existing opioids to enhance the euphoric high (it's also used purely recreationally by some people).

Ross Ulbricht, 30, was convicted on all seven counts he faced by a federal jury in Manhattan, following a closely - watched trial that spilled out of U.S. investigations into the use of the digital currency bitcoin for drug trafficking and other crimes.

Lots of things exist for a while unbothered by the law until someone cracks down, whether it's a certain drug, or, for example, people using bitcoin for illegal purposes.