Quotes About Pharmaceuticals

To get discounts on some drugs, private insurers are willing to pay top prices for blockbuster pharmaceuticals like Vioxx, despite the fact that Vioxx was rumored to cause fatal strokes and heart attacks.

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Manufacturing is finite, but human intellect is infinite. Textile is all about manufacturing, and industries like pharmaceuticals are all about human intellect.

Instead, statins artificially lower the level of cholesterol in

You don't like the way the study of an expensive drug for blood pressure is going? A nonissue - just stop the study before the results reach statistical significance.

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.

Medication can help us live a happier life.

The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary.

People are starting to understand: all generic companies aren't created equally.

We should look for ways to expedite generic drug approvals, particularly for products that have a long history of being safe and effective.

EpiPen is not unique. It falls into a category of old drugs, many of which should have long been subject to generic competition.

Pharmaceuticals are regulated. Pesticides are, as well as food, save the occasional salmonella outbreak. But chemicals and their witch's brew of ingredients continue to augment American industry without anyone quite knowing their makeup and possible toxicity. And that needs to change.

In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy.

If you have a drug that is $100 for one course of therapy, and you know that you can charge $100,000, what should shareholders think when you say, 'I'd rather not take the heat'?

Fortunately, in Piramal Enterprises, we are in three broad sectors. One is in the whole financial services sector, the second is in pharmaceuticals, and the third is in healthcare analytics and data.

Alabama seniors all across the Third Congressional District continue facing high drug costs.

Indian pharmaceutical companies are acutely dependent on China for the chemical building blocks to make penicillin.46

In fact, one of the most remarkable qualities of cannabis is its safety as a medicine. With a lethal-to-effective-dose ratio of 40,000 to 1, cannabis is far safer than aspirin and most other legal medicines, which commonly have a lethal dose only ten times greater than their effective one.6

I should have known better than to rely on pills. You can't buy unconsciousness quite so cheaply.

Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?

Key fact: in 2003 pharmaceutical companies spent more on marketing and sales than they did on research and development. When it comes time to invest, it's pretty clear that spreading the ideas behind the medicine is more important than inventing the medicine itself.

exercise is as effective as certain medications for treating anxiety and depression.

In most cold remedies," Andrew said, "there's a mishmash of ingredients. One's a chemical called phenylephrine; it's in what are advertised as decongestants to relieve a stuffy nose. Mostly, phenylephrine doesn't work—there isn't enough used to be effective—but it does raise blood pressure, which is harmful for anyone, and dangerous for those who have high blood pressure already.