Sentence examples for profitable medicines from inspiring English sources

The company, based in Whitehouse Station, N.J., will lose patent protection within 16 months on some of its older but highly profitable medicines.

The grants doled out by America's National Institutes of Health, for example, generate the raw ideas that pharmaceutical firms turn into profitable medicines.

The acquisition of Kali, which was closely held, expands Pharmaceutical Resources' ability to develop its more profitable medicines and rely less on partnerships, its chief executive, Scott Tarriff, told analysts on a conference call.

The cuts follow a similar announcement from Pfizer in March and are the latest sign of the crisis faced by major drug makers as patents on some of their most profitable medicines expire.

Shire's unsolicited offer – a direct appeal to shareholders after Baxalta's board spurned its advances – comes amid a frenzy of dealmaking in the pharmaceutical industry, as companies race to discover the next generation of profitable medicines, before current pipelines run dry.

The agreed deal, increased with a large cash element, is the latest takeover in the pharmaceuticals industry as companies with older drugs seek to acquire the next generation of profitable medicines.

The most urgent need is more research into new antimicrobial drugs, which flagged until the mid-1990's because of complacency and because they were not considered as profitable as medicines that must be taken for long periods of time.

At that cost, inventing profitable new medicines is a pretty difficult business.

Gerardo Torres was the top scientific officer in Shire's central nervous system business, which has a highly profitable portfolio of medicines to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Under the direction of its former chief executive, Floyd D. Loop, also a cardiac surgeon, the clinic amassed more than a dozen hospitals and focused its attention on one of the most profitable areas of medicine -- cardiac care.

The company has since pulled the plug on developing the product as it seemed unlikely to be profitable as a medicine.