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Definition of drugmaker
: a company that manufactures pharmaceuticals
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Jimenez reiterated his confidence in returning the Swiss drugmaker to growth next year.
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The drugmaker is seeking approval to use the treatment for patients aged 3 to 25 with a blood cancer called acute lymphoblastic leukemia whose disease has spread or failed to respond to standard treatment.
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Still, no GVHD treatment has yet received regulatory approval, and with a limited market and a long history of failed clinical trials, drugmakers are leery of getting involved.
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U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Democrat from Missouri, has requested information from Insys and four other drugmakers as part of a congressional investigation into an opioid crisis that has taken 200,000 lives nationwide in the last 15 years.
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More than a third of the investors voting at the generic drugmaker's annual meeting last week cast votes against Coury, while over half voted against Cameron—who heads Mylan's compensation committee, a letter reviewed by Reuters shows.
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This month, the US Food and Drug Administration said that drugmaker Endo Pharmaceuticals must remove the opioid painkiller Opana ER from the market.
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Pfizer and Biogen are among a clutch of drugmakers developing non-opioid painkillers that are in advanced clinical studies.
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What’s exciting for scientists came next, when researchers from drugmaker Genentech Inc. took a closer look at exactly who was being helped.
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First Known Use of drugmaker
1869
Medical Dictionary
drugmaker
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noun
drug·mak·er
\ˈdrəg-ˌmā-kər\
Medical Definition of drugmaker
: a company that manufactures pharmaceuticals
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