Along with a string of heart drug failures, it could make investors doubt the prospects for cholesterol medicines in clinical trials, making it harder for drug companies to finance new research in heart disease.
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Unfortunately for weight loss drugs, clinical researchers tend to favor an analysis that includes those who stop therapy precisely because it is tougher and harder for drug companies to game.
In other words, legalizing marijuana fundamentally alters the landscape of the black market in ways that would make it harder for drug traffickers to access the market in the first place, creating fewer consumers and potential consumers almost overnight.
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And having a popular Republican such as McCain lining up with prominent Democrats like Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts and South Dakota's Tom Daschle on this issue only makes things harder for the drug companies.
The legislation it approved would make it harder for Mexican drug cartels to get their hands on guns sold in the United States and would punish those buying firearms or ammunition for criminals, said the committee's chairman, Sen.
Washington, DC (CNN) -- A new bill would make it harder for Mexican drug cartels to get their hands on guns sold in the United States and would punish those buying firearms or ammunition for criminals, according to senators from both parties, who proposed the legislation.
Copies act as a kind of gateway drug to the harder (or, at least, more expensive) stuff.
With a mixture of entities, it is much harder to pinpoint exactly how a drug works, as the chemical structure may be extremely complex.
But small changes can be lost in the fine print of the label, and it may be harder to change habits once a drug has been on the market for several years.
They probably won't take down the drug Goliath--but they could make it harder for pharmaceutical giants to keep their heads above water as they swim from one blockbuster drug to the next.
Drug mix-ups are even harder to track down, particularly because they are most dangerous in patients who are already very sick.
Without that data, it's harder for doctors to know how to use the drug in many patients.
Tysabri, by contrast, will probably never face true generic competition, because it is a type of drug called a monoclonal antibody that will be much harder to produce cheaply.
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The researchers then gave the DMD mice that had been treated with poloxamer 188 another drug to put stress on the heart and make it work harder and faster for 30 minutes.
But once darkness fell, so did any remaining inhibitions, and using the gateway drug of Dancing Queen, the DJ managed to get people on to the harder stuff.
But people who are given it unknowingly find the drug disappears from their system in as little at 12 hours, making it harder to prove that they were in fact drugged and not just very drunk.
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None of this troubles the Drug Warriors who insist all that needs to be done is to keep pounding, only harder this time.
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Another curious museum, and one that is much harder for the general public to access, is a collection of paraphernalia seized from the country's drug cartels.
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