Drug patents filed in the US are granted exclusivity rights for 20 years from the date of application and the FDA extends a five-year period of exclusivity for any NCE, even if it lacks patent protection. Many drugmakers also take advantage of the opportunity to extend their exclusivity ...
raising $82 million. Although it called the commercialization of Glybera a top priority, by last fall UniQure instead chose to scrap its plans to sell the drug in the U.S. after the Food and Drug Administration said new, expensive trials would be needed. ...
Drug addicts. Homeless people. People trapped in abusive relationships. The list goes on. Just this week, Seattle/King county public health posted information to help avoid a drug overdose, and my ostensibly liberal fellow residents went NUTS. “How dare you encourage drug abuse!” and “you’...
Though he could afford them, he didn’t wear expensive perfumes, nor did he allow himself the luxury of fine jewelry. A simple leather band wrapped around his right wrist—a plain adornment for a plain man. He looked like the average Pushtani, blending in despite having only lived in Dar...
t celebrate it. There are no children in costumes going Trick Or Treating at dusk. The idea of having your children walking around asking strangers for candies is unfathomable in Thailand. I remember my mom once asked me if I was scared someone would give my kid drug-laced candies, because...
He would also make a great drug addict or homosexual predator in a screenplay my friend is writing (or both! Seriously Katie, his look is perfect for that!)….If you want to see a band whose singer has hair that looks like an enormous loaf of flat bread and jumps around like a ...
I get the concern of offending people...though for what it's worth, most Japanese people would never tell you when they are offended, so either you can let that eat away at you or can carry on blissfully unaware. Social harmony is a hell of a drug. I do think, if you want to ...
Speaker 6: They wanted us to develop a miracle drug. Speaker 3: ... can put you on the wrong side of a gun, or sword, or this thing. Thrills. Danger. Intrigue. Speaker 4: A word of advice before you go, Captain, trust no one. Speaker 3: What will you find on Gorgon? Larry...
Making things worse, at one point the three or four hippos I've tamed suddenly lose their loyalty and begin attacking me again. I have to hastily re-drug and tame them a second time, and by the time I've done it there are only three left alive. Running along the riverbank for a wh...