Sentences with phrase «used by pharmaceutical companies»

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For Theranos to take lab - testing business from the two major lab companies used by doctors, Quest and LabCorp, and to partner to run tests for more hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies, it has to show it can get it right at every stage, from the preparation before it pricks someone's finger to the accurate processing of hundreds of thousands of samples.

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.

The list is topped by pharmaceutical maker Novo Nordisk, Brazil's Natura Cosmeticos, Norwegian energy company Statoil, the Danish biotech firm Novozymes, and ASML Holding, a Dutch manufacturer of photolithography machines used in the semiconductor industry.

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.

The scale that scientists use to describe a chili's heat was developed in 1912 by Wilbur Scoville, a chemist at Parke - Davis pharmaceutical company in Detroit.

Shimsky, a Hastings - on - Hudson Democrat who first introduced the plan on June 19, told the Review the legislation would be directed against a number of pharmaceutical companies that have used deceptive marketing of opioid painkillers, seeking punitive and compensatory damages for the costs already expended by Westchester County.

In recent years, escalating costs and increased global competition have led pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to start using contractors — temporary employees who work for a contracted period of time — in jobs previously held by permanent employees.

This particular type of cell - based HTS assay is used by many of the fast - track biotechs and pharmaceutical companies, and they take good care of their people.

Barry Schonwetter and colleagues at the Magainin Research Institute, a private laboratory run by the drugs company Magainin Pharmaceuticals in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, took cells from the surface of cows» tongues and used organic solvents to extract several chemicals.

Companies that uncover such mutations can profit by selling that knowledge to pharmaceutical companies, which can use it to develop diagnostic tests aCompanies that uncover such mutations can profit by selling that knowledge to pharmaceutical companies, which can use it to develop diagnostic tests acompanies, which can use it to develop diagnostic tests and drugs.

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.

After receiving a master degree in Biotechnology at the University of Verona (Italy) in 1998, I joined the neuroscience centre of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a large research - based pharmaceutical company based in Verona (Italy) and Harlow (UK), where I pioneered the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to describe the neural substrates modulated by pharmacological agents, a line of research that I also pursued to obtain a PhD degree in biomedical imaging with the University of Verona.

This method is used by 80 % of major pharmaceutical companies and has contributed to the development of several approved drugs.

The symposium we've convened addresses the ways Organs - on - Chips technology is being used for drug development by pharmaceutical companies and for precision medicine by clinicians.

SAN DIEGO, March 28, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- Invivoscribe ® Technologies Inc., a global company with decades of experience providing internationally standardized clonality and biomarker testing solutions for the fields of oncology, personalized molecular diagnostics ®, and personalized molecular medicine ®, reports that its next - generation sequencing (NGS) LymphoTrack ® Assay kits are being used by its LabPMM ® clinical laboratories, pharmaceutical partners, and cancer centers to identify and monitor chimeric antigen receptor T - cells (CAR - T) and engineered T - cell receptors in peripheral blood of subjects in support of immuno - therapeutic drug development and treatment regimen development for both hematologic and solid tumors.

Intrigued by the plant's traditional use, researchers at Hallym University College of Medicine in Seoul, Institute of Natural Medicine, and Scigenic, a Korean phyto - pharmaceutical company, suspected that one particular constituent of Angelica gigas had powerful pharmacological activity.

The Growth Factors Must Exist in the Proper ProportionsFor years drug - engineering (pharmaceutical) companies have synthesized the anti-aging components of colostrum, and these synthetic growth factors have been used by wealthy patrons in expensive anti-aging clinics.

Nowadays, witch hazel is used as a foundation in many toners, cleansers, clarifying products and makeup removers by pharmaceutical companies such as Estée Lauder, L'Oreal, Revlon and Neutrogena.

However, most of these claims are based on studies funded by pharmaceutical companies with a vested interest in promoting the use of their products.

Funded by Byer's shadowy research group, a pharmaceutical company has used behaviour modification to create a new breed of pumped - up, hyper - intelligent field agent.

Cartoons offered for free are simply that... «free» and I think Hugh would agree that if one of his free cartoons showed up on package designs promoting Campbells soup or used in a national or global print campaign to promote the newest pharmaceuticals, that image would still be free to use by the chosen company using it.

Treatment B is only used by quacks in the pay of the evil pharmaceutical companies» You shouldn't be researching treatments, your not smart enough.

The most effective anti-venom used there to treat cases of snakebite, Fav - Afrique, is no longer being produced by the manufacturer, French pharmaceutical company Sanofi.

Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc., an American pharmaceutical company, used medical isotopes produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.'s (AECL) nuclear reactor at Chalk River in the manufacture of its products.

When pharmaceutical companies promote drugs and medical devices, or take advantage of «off - label» use by repurposing a medicine's original treatment without the necessary testing, it puts the public at risk.

Comment: One commenter pointed out that the preamble referred to the obligations of providers and did not use the term, «covered entity,» and thus created ambiguity about the obligations of health care providers who may be employed by persons other than covered entities, e.g., pharmaceutical companies.

On the cost efficiency — or not — of our health system, an interesting article by Australian researchers was published by The Conversation explaining the concept of patent «evergreening» — a strategy pharmaceutical companies use to keep the cost of medicines (and their profits) high.