It's easy to complain that pharmaceutical companies place profits over people and apparently care more about hair loss than TB. However, many in the pharmaceutical industry would be glad for the opportunity to reorient their research toward medicines that are truly needed, provided only that such research is financially sustainable.
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Related We know that many patients struggle to afford their prescription medicines and are unaware that help... BILLY TAUZIN A lot of pharmaceutical companies have hired compliance managers to make sure that all aspects of a ... JAMES MONTAGUE The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and pr... MARCIA ANGELL It's important to know that this College of Pharmacy is going to be about research in addition to ed... LARRY CALHOUN The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of in... MARCIA ANGELL Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. ... WALTER MODELL [Pharmaceutical companies argue that drug costs are justified.] It's important to look at the prices... ALAN HOLMER By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical indu... PAUL BERG New Jersey is truly the perfect location for emerging companies and research initiatives. With stron... DEBBIE HART The U.S. can still maintain research institutions, such as Caltech, that are the envy of the world, ... AHMED ZEWAIL There?s no question that the general trend is more, more, more. Higher doses, more indications. It w... ADDA GRIMBERG I learned many things from Professor Brown, including his philosophy toward research, but there is o... AKIRA SUZUKI Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased th... MARTY MEEHAN The industry is willing to buy more palm oil...but palm oil should be more and more sustainable, bec... EDGARE KERKWIJK Roche is one of the most outstanding companies in the pharmaceutical industry in our view. DENISE ANDERSON I would say that the pharmaceutical industry is hyper-competitive from a global perspective. HEATHER BRESCH It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experi... ALBERT HOFMANN Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revoluti... MORT KONDRACKE Clearly, some of the reason people embrace alternatives and reject vaccines is that they are angry a... MICHAEL SPECTER Most pharmaceutical companies have approached us and many are using the data. AKHILESH PANDEY If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help Ameri... RICK RENZI We think this is a good move for Johnson and Johnson. It boosts their pharmaceutical (sales) growth ... GIRISH TYAGI It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough... PAUL FARMER Specialty pharmaceutical companies, those smaller firms in the industry that focus on specific thera... RICHARD WATSON The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY Our fear is that the savings will be on the back of poor people rather than highly profitable pharma... KATHLEEN STOLL We're finding a third way for biologists to change the world. It's very hard to change the w... ARVIND GUPTA My overall goal is to get a job in research study in the pharmaceutical field. I want to cure diabet... KARA SAMSEL All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research. ADA YONATH I read an article somewhere that stated 1 in 4 American women will be considered clinically depresse... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The market research available today shows that people are more loyal to their bank than to their bro... BLAKE DARCY Drug companies say they need to charge ever-higher prices to cover their research costs, but they sp... MARCIA ANGELL These fines and the permanent injunction demonstrate that there is a strong system in place for ensu... ANDREW ESCHENBACH These fines and the permanent injunction demonstrate that there is a strong system in place for ensu... ANDREW C. VON ESCHENBACH Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, s... HANNES ALFVEN Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet... JIM CLYBURN There are opportunities in the pharmaceutical industry, the insurance industry, so yes back home we ... DONALD EVANS The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge ex... MARCIA ANGELL [Still,] the doubling over a decade of total spending by U.S. public and private research sponsors i... HAMILTON MOSES We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we we... THABO MBEKI The fact that thought leader management and MSL programs have developed in non-traditional healthcar... ELIO EVANGELISTA Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments no... DAVID MIXNER I think that the music industry is such an interesting place, and there are so many situations that ... BEBE REXHA For all of life's discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you... MARCIA ANGELL Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU The pharmaceutical companies are very interested in having top-tier talent. If you don't have flexib... CAROL EVANS Since the US remains the biggest and most lucrative pharmaceutical market in the world, it is no sur... DAVID RICHARDSON The Chinese asset management industry is growing rapidly in size and sophistication. At the same tim... ALEXANDER HUNGATE There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn'... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER They testified that research shows people would only pay $1 more. JAMES HACKER It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the... RANDY SCHEKMAN Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so... DONALD BERWICK It's super important that people use their significant buying power to pull companies like Ferra... PETTER STORDALEN Biomedical research is only as good as its delivery. Distribution of medicines by charities is no mo... JOHN SULSTON If you look at the research that's published, it's always 'Research says that such-and-such will hap... FRANK FUREDI The hospitals and pharmaceutical companies are paying big money for publication and broadcast of che... HUANG TAIKANG That's always the most productive research - research into tone, into voice. Facts are nice, too... JONATHAN DEE Tom's extensive experience in the development and growth of specialty pharmaceutical companies will ... CAMERON DURRANT Simply put, to end the AIDS epidemic in the United States, we need to mobilize efforts in all our co... ANTHONY S. FAUCI The regulatory agenda that's been hanging over pharmaceutical companies has eased up considerably. CHUCK GABRIEL No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as... RICHARD CURTIS It's time to permanently lower America's tax gate so that the $2 trillion in stranded U.S. p... KEVIN BRADY I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D. HAROLD E. VARMUS When I was in the Maine Senate and proposed Maine RX - a plan to lower prescription drug costs by fo... CHELLIE PINGREE Here we will see that pharmaceutical companies spend tens of billions of pounds every year trying to... BEN GOLDACRE Drug stocks have remained relatively cheap, and you'll notice that since interest rates are of littl... NEIL SWEIG It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such excit... LAUREL CLARK I'd never have guessed that, six years after Medicare introduced a drug benefit, it would still ... TIMOTHY NOAH There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that suc... THOMAS R. CECH We still like the fact that we're in an environment where no matter what happens in the economy, the... PAUL NOLTE It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more a... WALTER LORD The holy grail of our research is to convince those cells to regenerate, but now, we need to first u... MANFRED AUER Chinese pharmaceutical companies are seeing more anti-dumping or anti-subsidy cases. The conflicts a... CUI BIN Dozens of companies have swiftly changed gears to take advantage of this emerging opportunity. Many ... ERIK MICHIELSEN I am happy that I have so many friends all over the world who contributed to my research work, and I... KLAUS VON KLITZING There is a long list of psychology research demonstrating that appearances matter more than most us ... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'... IOAN GRUFFUDD One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself g... LOUIS NAVELLIER You can disseminate your art, and it's all such easy access now. The upside to it is that more p... STANLEY CLARKE I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as... FRANCIS COLLINS Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer researc... LINUS PAULING Asthma research is a lot better and new medicines are always coming out to help young people. DOMINIQUE WILKINS While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a contin... MICHAEL K. SIMPSON The administration has again and again and again been very beholden to the pharmaceutical industry, ... STANLEY GREENBERG To cure ALS medically is not economical. The realities are that it's difficult to find funding f... STEVE GLEASON Things are difficult for outsiders in the industry, and it is very evident, too. It does not mean th... SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT I think the service industry will see a tremendous amount of growth there. When you have companies l... MARK ROSEN We have 90% more hardwood standing inventory in U.S. forests than we did 60 years ago. The willingne... TIM LOCKE The branded industry is losing drugs from patent and the generic industry is circling like buzzards ... CASEY ALEXANDER I came to the pharmaceutical industry for many reasons, and one of the reasons was I wanted to have,... KAREN HOUSEKNECT Our primary health care should begin on the farm and in our hearts, and not in some laboratory of th... GARY HOPKINS They know, just as we know, that FDA-approved generics provide the same medicine and the same result... KATHLEEN JAEGER England has a long history of supporting alternative medicine - maybe it's because they don'... DASHA ZHUKOVA This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite. BARBARA SMITH Don't tell my parents that I work in the pharmaceutical industry. They think I am working in a broth... GERHARD KOCHER I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. 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