Sentences with phrase «which pharmaceutical drugs»

And those interventions are heavily dependent on expensive technology, of which pharmaceutical drugs are a major category.

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That could help curtail a true drug crisis with devastating economic and social impacts — and which was sparked, in large part, by the actions of huge pharmaceutical companies.

In December, Tehrani signed a deal with GlaxoSmithKline that will allow the pharmaceutical giant to test at least four of its drug candidates on a Zymeworks - designed platform, which combines a computer simulation with a way of engineering protein molecules and allows products to be refined before they move to expensive clinical trials.

One biotech firm, Ossianix, is already hard at work developing a VNAR - based drug - delivery system, in collaboration with the global pharmaceutical company Lundbeck, which focuses on drugs for brain disorders.

The pharmaceutical firm is set to launch three blockbuster drugs in 2018, two of which are proprietary cancer drugs.

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.

Brendan Kennedy, the cofounder of Privateer Holdings, which owns various marijuana companies like Marley Natural and Canadian pharmaceutical - grade cannabis producer Tilray, says his companies are expanding abroad while the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Food and Drug Administration debate whether or not to treat the plant as a medicine or keep it in the same category as heroin.

Aurora Cannabis was up 2.5 % in early Wednesday trading; the U.K.'s GW Pharmaceuticals, which is vying for the first Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved cannabis - based medicine in the U.S., rose more than 2 %; Canada's MedReleaf spiked 4 % while Aprhia had a more modest 1 % rise.

Turing Pharmaceuticals, which raised the price of a drug 5,500 % practically overnight says it will now lower its price following an intense backlash from the media, medical profession and the general public.

The Belgian group specialises in the research of novel drugs based on nano - bodies found in the immune systems of llamas and alpacas, for which it partners with several of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies.

Clinton has said she plans to combat high drug prices, which could be a drag for pharmaceutical companies.

As Businessweek reports, the case centers on a Japanese pharmaceutical company called Asahi, which licensed a drug called Fasudil to the San Francisco - based company CoTherix in 2006.

Bristol's $ 2.4 billion purchase of Medarex — which pharmaceutical analysts routinely cite as one of the best acquisitions in the history of the industry — would give the company not only a new blockbuster but also a leadership position in a burgeoning drug category: immuno - oncology.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals, which dramatically raised the price of two lifesaving heart drugs, caught the ire of Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign.

U.K. - based GW Pharmaceuticals, which is extracting CBD from the cannabis plant to make anti-seizure medication that is in the Food and Drug Administration approval pipeline, already has an import - export licenses for marijuana.

The campaign also said that Prop 61 «would invalidate many drug discount agreements the state has negotiated with pharmaceutical companies,» which would increase state prescription costs by tens of millions of dollars each year.

The company now controls nearly half of the market for insulin products — which are second only to oncology drugs as the fastest - growing category of pharmaceuticals.

These healthcare brands will have the effect of soothing out the inevitable fluctuations that occur on the pharmaceutical side, though right now, Glaxo's portfolio is boasting robust growth from small - scale HIV drugs Triumeq and Trivicay (which, as the CEO noted in the last annual report, sport year - over-year sales growth of 41 % and 43 %, respectively).

February 2015: Launches new company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, which acquires an old drug and jacks up their prices.

Endo International will buy Par Pharmaceuticals for $ 8 billion, which will make Endo a bigger player in the fast - changing generic drug sector.

Deals between pharmaceutical corporations and their generic drug competitors, which government officials say keep cheaper forms of medicine off the market, can sometimes be illegal and therefore can be challenged in court, the Supreme Court said Monday...

Martin Shkreli is the founder and chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals, which raised the price of the drug Daraprim to $ 750 a tablet from $ 13.50.

Another migraine drug, lasmiditan, which Lilly picked up with its 2017 acquisition of Colucid Pharmaceuticals, is in late - stage clinical studies.

One of the few negatives on an otherwise fairly positive day of trading was the 5 % decline of Reckitt Benckiser, producers of a drug used to help get drug users off of Heroin called Suboxone, which acts as a replacement for the Class A. Reckitt's patent for Suboxone is due to expire in the relatively near future, so they have been trying to push doctors and other pharmaceutical vendors towards their film version of the drug, which is still under patent and will be for quite some time.

The divestment would complete the company's gradual shift away from its original focus on generic drugs and nuclear imaging toward branded specialty pharmaceuticals, which now comprise the bulk of its revenues.

They often license promising drugs to bigger pharmaceutical companies, which help pay for development and become responsible for making sales.

Credit Suisse analysts said patisiran's data seemed to have «solid safety» compared with Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc's rival drug, which cleared a key study but raised safety concerns.

The investigation is tied to his large stake in Canadian drug company Valeant Pharmaceuticals, which has been facing more - and - more problems it seems each day.

The Catholic MP linked to an Indonesian firm which manufacturer a pill which causes terminations, has dumped stock he held in a different pharmaceutical firm in India, which also sells abortion drugs.

Plus, lauric acid is essentially non-toxic, which gives it a distinct advantage over modern pharmaceutical drugs that are typically used to fight viruses, bacterial infections and fungal infections (I mean, heck, I'd rather down some coconut oil over conventional drugs any day!).

That work was to become the FOOD MATTERS film which helped heal my father from chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, and anxiety plus free him from the pharmaceutical drug bandwagon.

Importing pharmaceuticals would inhibit the ability of pharmaceutical companies to make high profit margins on their drugs, which is needed to overcome the extremely high cost of gaining government approval to sell those drugs.

The model is the basis of the state's first Buffalo Billion project, in which the state is providing $ 50 million to build and equip a facility at or near the downtown Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus to attract companies involved in pharmaceutical drug research and manufacturing.

Many thousands more papers remain sealed as part of ongoing lawsuits brought by more than 14,000 women against the drug maker Wyeth, which was bought last year by the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, based in New York.

This portion of the pharmaceutical process, in which drug candidates are identified and tested, now employs many of the latest findings in genomics and proteomics.

The initial data showed enough promise to convince Roche to license the drug from California - based Ionis Pharmaceuticals, which sponsored the recent Huntington's trial.

Advances made there include the benzodiazepines Valium and Librium, which heralded the advent of pharmaceutical psychiatry, and the tuberculosis drug isoniazid.

Of the $ 2,836,088 in «direct public support» the NSF received in 2005 (the most recent IRS disclosure I could find), it seems that $ 470,000 came from Pfizer, which in 2005 was primping for the debut of the sleep - aid drug Indiplon, which it has since dropped; $ 299,000 came from GlaxoSmithKline, makers of Sominex; $ 152,000 from King Pharmaceuticals (Sonata); $ 596,670 from Sanofi Aventis (Ambien); $ 471,800 from Takeda Pharmaceuticals (Rozerem); $ 133,183 from Sepracor (Lunesta); $ 100,000 from the hepcats over at Jazz Pharmaceuticals, who make the narcolepsy drug Xyrem; and $ 100,000 from Cephalon, maker of another drug used for narcolepsy, Provigil.

Three studies presented at the American Epilepsy Society's 69th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia highlight emerging efficacy and safety data of Epidiolex, a pharmaceutical liquid formulation of cannabidiol, which is currently undergoing U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized Phase 3 pivotal clinical trials in the United States and across the globe by GW Pharmaceuticals.

«An industry scientist, Bill Sheridan of BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc., which is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, cautioned that new flu drugs must be tested on wild strains to look for resistance, which is one way of enhancing a virus,» Kaiser wrote.

These drugs subsequently have low bioavailability (i.e., they are difficult for the body to take up), which limit their therapeutic efficacy and hence seldom leads to new pharmaceuticals.

The experiment was designed by pharmaceutical firm Novartis, which will use the data to design drugs to combat the disease.

Studying how genes affect different drugs manufactured by different companies gives Poirier greater influence on future drug development, he feels, which would not be possible if he was employed at any one pharmaceutical research lab.

The researchers tested two anti-CK2 drugs for their ability to stimulate the production of new brown fat in mice: a new small - molecule CK2 - blocker called silmitasertib (CX - 4945), which is already in clinical trials as a cancer therapeutic; and a more precise next - generation antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) drug developed in collaboration with Isis Pharmaceuticals, which eliminates CK2 by blocking the RNA instructions cells use to produce it.

Astra's move is a departure from trying to build new drugs in a laboratory, which is the approach which has dominated pharmaceutical company research for the past 20 years, Quinn says.

For example, pharmaceutical companies could conduct predictive screenings for drugs before clinical trials and determine which groups of patients would experience side effects and which ones wouldn't.

Among the interesting topics covered in Pathways are: the changing role of the patient in the total health equation and the ways in which decentralized information is affecting their expectations and demands; the dearth of pipeline products among international pharmaceutical companies against a backdrop of increased research and development spending; the dynamics of emerging markets and their rising demand for therapies in chronic disease; the value of drugs and biotechnology solutions within the context of global economic realities.

«Physicians do use the database, but it's not yet common for them to use it for every prescription because it's still lacking a lot of information on pharmaceuticals,» said Lööf, chairman of the Drug Therapeutic Committee at the Centre for Clinical Research in Västerås, which works with local physicians to provide drug therapy strategDrug Therapeutic Committee at the Centre for Clinical Research in Västerås, which works with local physicians to provide drug therapy strategdrug therapy strategies.

If a pharmaceuticals company — which might find 10 per cent of the undiscovered drugs — paid out all its profit to the owners, this would amount to only $ 1.32 a hectare.

Clinical researchers can end up anywhere from academia, where posts are based at university medical school research units or at hospital research units, to pharmaceutical or biotech companies, or in contract research organisations (CROs), which carry out clinical trials for drug or biotech companies.