In 1998 the Clinton Administration rocketed a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan belonging to WorldSpace backer Idris, alleging the plant was used by Osama bin Laden to produce chemical weapons.
In addition, Sen said India was willing to donate essential medicines to the relief effort, noting that India has the largest number of Food and Drug Administration-recognized pharmaceutical companies outside the United States.
In 1998 the Clinton Administration fired missiles into a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan belonging to Idris, alleging that it was used by Osama bin Laden to produce chemical weapons.
Dodd , a Democrat, is proposing a sweeping set of drug reforms that would give the Food and Drug Administration the muscle to force pharmaceutical companies to study drug safety after the medicines are approved.
Nowhere in Europe is there that expertise or the liquidity of life science capital markets to sustain the kind of investment that Cyclacel needs if it's to get through the hugely demanding and hugely expensive process of satisfying America's pharmaceutical regulator, the Food and Drug Administration.
Obama took office, due in no small part to the Part D drug benefits pushed through by the Bush administration (which benefited primarily the pharmaceutical companies).
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Biotech has always relied on partnerships with big pharmaceutical firms to share costs associated with Food and Drug Administration approval and eventually with marketing and distribution of approved drugs.
The measure is designed to allow pharmaceutical concerns and drug wholesalers, under strict Food and Drug Administration guidelines, to reimport U.S. manufactured drugs that had been sold to other countries, and sell them in the United States at below market prices.
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Cephalon, the maker of Nuvigil, tried twice to get the drug officially approved to treat jet lag by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the federal agency that regulates pharmaceutical companies.
Earlier this month, the pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced that it may ask the Food and Drug Administration to allow it to market the cholesterol-lowering statin Lipitor over the counter after its patent expires in November.
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The Obama administration has become so concerned about the slowing pace of new drugs coming out of the pharmaceutical industry that officials have decided to start a billion-dollar government drug development center to help create medicines.
Pharmaceutical companies are patenting all aspects of a drug's production, storage, packaging, route of administration and method of use.
The administration's objections centre around the fear that inspections would compromise the necessary secrecy that surrounds legitimate pharmaceutical companies as they develop new commercial drugs.
For a point of comparison, consider the Federal Drug Administration ( FDA), whose actions suggest it respects the importance of the products provided by the pharmaceutical industry which it regulates.
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The decision is a rebuke to the Obama administration, which argued that some 90, 000 drug reps and so-called detailers across the pharmaceutical industry should be covered under the 1938 law designed to protect workers from exploitation and excessive hours.
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