pharmaceutical firm
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pharmaceutical
adjective
uk/ˌfɑː.məˈsuː.tɪ.kəl/us/ˌfɑːr.məˈsuː.t̬ɪ.kəl/
relating to the production ...
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firm
noun[C]
uk/fɜːm/us/fɝːm/
a company offering a professional service, for example a company ...
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(Definition ofpharmaceuticalandfirmfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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He said that he had been a director of apharmaceuticalfirmfor many years.
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I should like to say that there is a very close parallel here in the promotion of drugs bypharmaceuticalfirmrepresentatives to doctors.
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If they act like thatpharmaceuticalfirmdid, one can see why.
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I do not believe that researchers or other companies would be happy if a company owned by anotherpharmaceuticalfirm, however reputable, took over their ideas and developed them.
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I am now just waiting to see whichpharmaceuticalfirmwill come forward and say it has a cure for this disease, thus starting another panic.
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Soon after completing his degree, he began working for apharmaceuticalfirmin the product development department, where he concocted new cough medicines, antifungals, etc.
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It is also possible that the pharmacies and pharmaceutical firms supporting these promotional mailings were gaming the system.
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One could as logically argue that pharmaceutical firms should pay for such development, with costs recovered by charging the patients whose lives are saved.
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At the time, he had become a production manager at hispharmaceuticalfirmand declared that the season would be his last due to work reasons.
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The recently publicized links between pharmacy chains and pharmaceutical firms is revealing (5;6;7).
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Government support is needed, both for research carried out by universities and pharmaceutical firms, and for the production and distribution of the contraceptive devices required by the developing world.
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I do not think that it resulted in any serious encroachment on the patent rights of pharmaceutical firms.
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It has meant that they have had to cease practising and give up their business or give up positions as managers of pharmaceutical firms.
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I think we could do, without these parasitic pharmaceutical firms.
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At the same time, it simplifies operations and reduces costs for medium-sized pharmaceutical firms.
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I have also been called upon as a consultant by some of our leading pharmaceutical firms.
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For instance, allowing contracts for general practice services to be offered by supermarkets or pharmaceutical firms sounds troubling.
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Many of the major pharmaceutical firms have developed cell and tissue culture techniques as alternatives to the use of animals.
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Various pharmaceutical firms, with whom my officers are in close contact, are also actively engaged in this field.
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This conspiracy is engineered by the advertisers, the pharmaceutical firms, to get more and more proprietary drugs used in prescriptions.
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