Mr. LUDWIG: Conflicts of interests in pharmaceutical research could affect the millions of people taking medicines.
And the release occurred on a Web site run by the Pharmaceutical Research Manufacturers Association (PhRMA).
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America ( PhRMA), a major Obamacare proponent, reacted cautiously.
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Bayer said the patent panel's order weakens the international patent system and endangers pharmaceutical research.
The order "weakens the international patent system and endangers pharmaceutical research, " the company said in a statement.
If Washington can manage to avoid interfering, the dreams within the pharmaceutical research pipeline could soon become reality.
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High frequency trading, oil and gas modeling, pharmaceutical research and engineering often make great demands on their computing environments.
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Under the guise of genetic, biological and pharmaceutical research, Castro is developing a serious germ and chemical warfare capability.
Now chief executive of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the industry group for Big Pharma companies like Merck and Novartis.
Steve Brozak is president of WBB Securities, LLC, an independent broker-dealer and investment bank specializing in biotechnology, medical devices and pharmaceutical research.
"I am interested in Ellison's Raw Iron, " said Matthew Meyer, an NT administrator at MDS Harris, a pharmaceutical research firm in Lincoln, Neb.
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the drug industry trade group, issued a statement saying it approved of most of the major changes.
Health Care for America Now Executive Director Ethan Rome said his group believes the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing Association, PhRMA, was actually behind the RetireSafe letter.
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The outcome--unscientific, highly politicized and excessive regulation of biotechnology--has prevented critical advances in agricultural and pharmaceutical research and development and has been especially catastrophic for poor nations.
Billy Tauzin says his top mission as president and CEO of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America is to recapture the trust of the American public.
John Lechleiter, chairman of the trade group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and CEO of Lilly, said Monday that the new program will supplement Interpol's existing efforts.
Alan Goldhammer, vice president for scientific and regulatory affairs at the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, said the industry will study the suggestions and weigh whether to incorporate them.
Frogs, which breathe and process toxins through their skin, are considered a promising area for pharmaceutical research and a bio-indicator that can tell scientists about what's going on in the environment.
Verizon and Hewlett-Packard filed briefs in favor of Mayo, while the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and the American Intellectual Property Law Association weighed in on behalf of Prometheus.
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The industry's trade organization, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, frequently points out that the FDA already sets the worldwide standard for drug safety and that many of the medicines drug firms invent are lifesavers.
The country has also had success commercializing pharmaceutical research (think AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ) and Pharmacia, now owned by Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people )).
With billions of dollars in federal science funding hinging on the integrity of academic researchers, and billions more in health care dollars riding on the truthfulness of pharmaceutical research claims, the industry needs more websites like this, not fewer.
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In a June article in The New England Journal of Medicine, Jerry Avorn, a pharmacologist at Harvard Medical School, painted torcetrapib as the unhappy result of the drug industry's role as the sole funder of most pricey pharmaceutical research.
Because generic companies tend to challenge patents of every successful drug, the FTC's position would impose onerous legal costs on brand-name drugmakers and limit their ability to fund expensive research to create new drugs, said the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, which represents brand-name drugmakers.
Standing behind him as he made the remarks were the leaders of the Advanced Medical Technology Association, the American Medical Association, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the American Hospital Association and the Service Employees International Union--trade groups representing medical technology companies, doctors, pharmaceuticals, hospitals and labor.
In a concerted effort to raise awareness with legislators, key trade associations such as the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, the Council for Affordable Health Coverage, and the American Academy of Family Physicians launched Prescriptions for a Healthy America.
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Pharmaceutical companies research hundreds of molecular groups before coming up with a marketable drug.
First, the development of biological weapons is one of the most difficult things to detect since the lethal agents can easily be hidden, and the manufacturing facilities are essentially undistinguishable from legitimate pharmaceutical or research installationsTo manage this impossible job, the protocol would set up a large international organization that would have people on its staff from such nations as North Korea, Iran, Iraq, and Cuba.
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Schering Corporation become a global research-based pharmaceutical firm in the 1950s and '60s based on both research and development and acquisitions.
Medicon Village in Lund is sited at the former research centre for the pharmaceutical giant, AstraZeneca, with 600 people working in medical research, pharmaceuticals, medical technology and biotechnology.
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