How to Use drugmaker in a Sentence

drugmaker

noun
  • The product’s list price was $2,100 per dose, the drugmaker said then.
    Alexander Ruoff, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The increase was mainly driven by sales of the over-the-counter version, the drugmaker said.
    Sara G. Miller, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The drugmaker was aiming to match the rate of Aubagio, an oral drug for the disease owned by Sanofi.
    David Sachs, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The pill in the new study — made by the Spanish drugmaker Ferrer — was approved for use in Europe in 2014.
    Erika Edwards, NBC News, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The drugmaker is looking for new products to make up for the huge gap left by the fading pandemic.
    Madison Muller, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The specialized tool will help researchers track the virus’ spread and keep tabs on its evolution, the drugmaker said.
    Robert Hart, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The drugmaker charges your health plan its normal portion of the drug cost, but the patient doesn't pay their normal copay share.
    Katie Wedell, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The drugmaker also raised its full-year 2023 sales forecast.
    WSJ, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Hundreds of billions dollars have been spent by drugmakers around the world to try and treat Alzheimer’s, but there’s currently no cure for the disease.
    Time, 4 July 2023
  • Part of this is due to side effects—mostly muscle aches—that were not made clear by drugmakers when statins were first approved.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The vaccine brought in $36.78 billion in revenue last year for Pfizer and was the drugmaker’s top-selling product.
    Tom Murphy, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The vaccine brought in $36.78 billion in revenue last year for Pfizer and was the drugmaker's top-selling product.
    Tom Murphy, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2022
  • This is a standard price-setting method among drugmakers.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The drugmaker hasn’t responded to a CNN request for comment.
    Laura He, CNN, 6 June 2023
  • Lilly’s stock-market value has risen to about $670 billion, the largest of any drugmaker tracked by S&P Global.
    Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • This study, funded by drugmakers, is the result of that requirement.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
  • If the plan is enacted, drugmakers are almost certain to challenge it in court.
    Amanda Seitz, Fortune Well, 7 Dec. 2023
  • One of the other two treatments as a pill, which drugmakers see as the next frontier for that treatment category.
    Paula Doenecke, Fortune Europe, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Gupta said the Biden administration is asking the drugmakers to keep the price of the antidote low.
    Nadia Kounang, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Bagley told me by email that even if that’s a genuine flaw, the remedy is either to let the drugmakers withdraw right away or give them a bit more time to keep charging full price.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • But Medicare this year set strict limitations on the drug's use, and its drugmaker has since cut the medication's cost in half.
    CBS News, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The drugmaker has now announced deals valued at a total of nearly $19 billion, counting debt, since late last year.
    Tom Murphy and Michelle Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The Swiss drugmaker will pay 68 euros, or around $73, per share, nearly twice Morphosys’s average trading price over the last month.
    Jason Mast, STAT, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The drugmaker’s outlook for $22 billion in sales this year from its antiviral Covid-19 treatment, known as Paxlovid, is unchanged from the summer.
    Charley Grant, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The drugmaker has also stopped retailers and food suppliers in their tracks.
    Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Pfizer will pay $229 a share in cash for Seagen, according a statement Monday, about a third more than the drugmaker’s closing share price Friday.
    Naomi Kresge, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The drugmaker found that 2.3% of study subjects who were randomly assigned to take Paxlovid suffered a relapse — but so did 1.7% of subjects who took a placebo.
    Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Shares of the Danish drugmaker have soared 40% so far this year, boosted by an explosion in demand for its weight-loss drugs Wegovy and Ozempic.
    Hanna Ziady, CNN, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The treatment has evolved from drugs that had been injected daily to once a week, and drugmakers are developing a pill version.
    Daniel Gilbert, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2023
  • The pause on the lower court ruling came after an appeal from the Biden administration and drugmakers.
    Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2023

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