Directed by Rupert Goold, the play is set in a modern medical facility where a pharmaceutical company is testing anti-depressant drugs.
Eli Lilly, an American pharmaceutical giant, is testing models for diabetes treatment in countries such as India, South Africa and Brazil (it also provides free insulin to AMPATH in Kenya).
Impatient with niceties, she goes after the pharmaceutical giants, who are testing a new drug and covering up the results.
"Pretty much every pharmaceutical company in the world" is testing amyloid-busting drugs, says Menelas Pangalos, vice president for neuroscience research at the pharmaceutical firm Wyeth.
She said the laboratories involved were being used for carrying out testing on foods and pharmaceutical products.
Digital health start-up HealthPrize, which co-authored the Capgemini study, has borrowed some of these approaches that reward patients frequently and in small increments, and is testing them with two pharmaceutical companies.
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Now, the pharmaceutical industry is increasingly adopting stem cells for testing the toxicity of drugs and identifying potential new therapies, say those in the field.
While the promising results for Nexavar may bring tears to the eyes of Bayer researchers and hope to cancer patients, doctors have lately become used to such breakthroughs, with pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca testing dozens of new targeted cancer pills.
Two years ago a secretive French expedition came to Socotra, financed by a pharmaceutical company, and took away countless rare plants for testing.
Pharmaceutical clients were eager to unload increasingly complex and expensive preclinical testing.
While pharmaceutical firms need to prove their drugs are safe with years of testing, dietary supplement makers can sell pills over the counter unless the government can prove their products are unsafe.
The batch, produced by the Tanzania Pharmaceutical Industry (TPI), was immediately recalled and subjected to further testing, which revealed that it was sub-standard.
In the same way as pharmaceutical companies must apply for a licence to sell a drug after extensive testing, so suppliers of legal highs will be able to market products in New Zealand if they can demonstrate they present a low risk of harm.
While other pharmaceutical companies have paid large amounts of cash for biotech drugs that had nearly completed human testing, Roche (otc: RHHBY - news - people ) has been sticking mostly to those that are in the earliest (phase I) or middle (phase II) stages of clinical trials.
Generic drugmaker Able Labs (nasdaq: ABRX - news - people ) is also high on Oberweis' list of top buys, along with chemical and pharmaceutical firm Aceto (nasdaq: ACET - news - people ) as well as medical testing company Biosite (nasdaq: BSTE - news - people ).
Or they are shepherding through clinical testing one of the nearly 1, 000 molecules targeting cancer that are in the pipelines of the pharmaceutical industry.
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