Medicines Quotations

Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring huge benefits, by helping patients to avoid infection and preventing serious damage to the economies of families, nations and even humanity at large.

It's easy to complain that pharmaceutical companies place profits over people and apparently care more about hair loss than TB. However, many in the pharmaceutical industry would be glad for the opportunity to reorient their research toward medicines that are truly needed, provided only that such research is financially sustainable.

Carbon-carbon bond formation reactions are important processes in chemistry because they provide key steps in building complex, bio-active molecules developed as medicines and agrochemicals.

There is no governing structure for a pandemic, and little more than vague political pressure to ensure limited access to life-sparing tools and medicines for more than half the world population.

I caught malaria, and the medicines caused a hallucination. I dreamt I won an Oscar for acting. I know it sounds stupid, but it was so real, and I just knew then it would happen.

We are glad to tie up with a humanitarian organization, which is being promoted by Prince Abdul Aziz. This partnership will greatly help in assisting needy renal-failure patients by supplying them equipment, medicines and other medical supplies, while encouraging and supporting scientific research.

Pharmaceuticals have become an increasingly important part of modern medicine, and our seniors shouldn't have to worry about whether they can afford the medicines they need to stay healthy and maintain their independence.

The majority of modern medicines originate in nature. Although some mushrooms have been used in therapies for thousands of years, we are still discovering new potential medicines hidden within them.

We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make medicines and drugs as affordable as a possible to what is largely a poor population.

Would-be drug companies must either produce medicines that stand up to federal scrutiny, demonstrate that their data has value to other companies, or go out of business.

For a decade, makers of AIDS medicines had rejected the idea of lowering prices in poor countries for fear of eroding profits in rich ones. The position required a balancing act, because the companies had to deflect attacks on the global reach of their patents, which granted exclusive marketing rights for antiretroviral drugs.

Internet pharmacies return to consumers the choice promised by supporters of the 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. That law established federal requirements for drug safety and labeling but exempted prescription medicines from the labeling rules.

We are providing choice, simplicity and expanded access to help Americans get the medicines they need,

Throughout my career, as both a physician and a scientist, I have drawn inspiration from Merck's unwavering commitment to scientific excellence. Over time, this commitment has brought forth an unparalleled number of breakthrough medicines and vaccines that improve the lives of patients around the world.

We wanted treatment for our mother, and there's so much expense involved when you get cancer, from the medicines to having to buy wigs when they lose their hair.

To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world

We need to be careful that we don't push the problem around from one weakest state to the next. You've got to craft a solution that preserves security and still provides access to the medicines that millions of Americans need.

Many operating physicians have to operate blind. We have to make medical decisions not knowing what kind of medicines you take or allergies you have.

Shahid Sayed Akhtar used to prescribe medicines whenever we people got cold, fever and other minor ailments and therefore, he was nicknamed as 'doctor by us.

Much of the increase in generic drug use advocated by Express Scripts involves switching patients to medicines different from those prescribed by their physicians. They are not generic copies of the prescribed treatments. Patients differ from one another, as do medicines in a therapeutic class. It is important that the patient and his or her physician determine which medicine is right for the patient.

Medicine cure us and give us relief from all type of ailments/diseases provided they are taken on the prescription of an efficient doctor. By taking these medicines one can also escape death which means that they give us a long life.

Now we can only pray in God's temple for him to get better. It is a matter of prayers and medicines. The medicines are being administered internally and the prayers are being sent from outside.

Never again will Medicare beneficiaries have to go to the pharmacy counter without financial assistance to pay for the medicines they need.

People who buy medicines marketed via spam messages are not only encouraging the spammers to send more of their nuisance emails, but are also potentially putting their lives at risk. Daniel Lin is unlikely to be sending any more spam, but there are plenty of other spammers out there prepared to make a quick buck with their unwanted marketing messages. All computer users should defend their email addresses with up-to-date anti-spam software, and remember to never buy goods marketed via spam.

Only the most technologically savvy universities are able to compete in the field of drug discovery and bioinformatics. Georgia Tech's focus on top-of-the-line technology and research facilities and the attraction of Dr. Jeff Skolnick and other world-class scholars will raise its presence in this competitive market and attract some of the nation's brightest students to join our research team to advance medicines that will improve the well-being of people everywhere.

I'd like to focus on my life on creating new medicines for people who are suffering from rare disease.

I am committing all the necessary resources of the company to address these issues, ... We will continue to work closely with the FDA in order to deliver on our promise to bring these innovative new medicines to patients as quickly as possible.

I expected I would have senators in states where this is not yet an epidemic come up to me and say, 'Look, why should we take the equivalent of half an aisle of cold medicines behind the counter in my state where this isn't a problem?' ... And I was going to tell them, 'It's a problem in your state, you just don't know it.' But they've not come up to me and said that.

There is a need to fast-track certain medications, but we also need to evaluate the evidence around a treatment to see how it squares up to other medicines already available. Sooner or later in any system, you only have a finite amount to spend on health care.

Our clients are poor, frail and disabled. They cannot afford to pay for their medicines or to go without them.

Parents need to keep medicines out of the reach of the children.

Staff have been attacked by US marines, doctors have been shot, emergency medicines blocked. Children have been murdered in front of their families. Now imagine the same state of affairs imposed on the London hospitals that received the victims of the bombing.

My mistake was to have not kept the packaging from the medicines I took.

We've translated early information from genetic research into valuable medicines for HIV/AIDS, heart disease and the prevention of organ rejection. But these advances have only scratched the surface of possible revolutionary approaches to treat and cure diseases. Pfizer, the NIH and other public/private biomedical research interests have complementary missions greater than the sum of their parts. Our hope is that this public/private initiative will encourage a deeper collective understanding of the genetic factors of disease for major new therapeutic advances.

We've translated early information from genetic research into potentially valuable medicines for HIV/AIDS, heart disease, and prevention of organ rejection, but these advances have only scratched the surface of possible revolutionary approaches to treat and cure diseases. Pfizer, the NIH and other public/private biomedical research interests have complementary missions greater than the sum of their parts. Our hope is that this public/private initiative will encourage a deeper collective understanding of the genetic factors of disease, for major new therapeutic advances.

The aim of all these initiatives is to prevent drug manufacturing from creating a bottleneck in getting medicines to patients.

The American people are concerned, and rightfully so. Americans should never have to worry that their employers are looking at the medicines they take, or the ailments they've had.

We have taken this unique step, which is unlike any initiative undertaken by Roche, to help ensure that the right medicines in the right formulation are available locally. We want to use the knowledge we have developed to help strengthen local manufacturing capability and hope to help as many manufacturers as possible in these hardest hit countries by sharing our knowledge, so that they can learn and benefit from our technology.

We plan to send (various) relief items, including tents, plastic sheets, mattresses, blankets, food items, medicines and medical supplies in a transport plane on Tuesday. It should reach Pakistan latest by Tuesday evening,

We recognize that many diseases we aim to treat have a strong genetic component. Additionally, we know some patients taking medicines show efficacy or experience side-effects, while others do not. Our understanding of all this has improved greatly but these areas remain as significant challenges in drug development.

We are moving from what I call the 'old Pfizer,' a company characterized by the medicines we launched so successfully in the 1990s, to the 'next generation' Pfizer, characterized by a new wave of important medicines now reaching patients.

While millions of consumers are turning to natural medicines for relief, many of them have no idea that the government doesn't require that they be tested for how safe they are or how well they work. In order to fill this information vacuum, we are adding Natural Medicine Ratings to our Consumer Reports Medical Guide, so that the public now for the first time has access to a trusted, independent, and unbiased resource that can help them make more informed decisions.

We know that many patients struggle to afford their prescription medicines and are unaware that help is available. That is why the pharmaceutical research industry is leading an aggressive campaign to inform doctors and prepare them to educate patients about the Partnership for Prescription Assistance. This new effort demonstrates our commitment to locate, inform and mobilize as many doctors as possible.

Why is it that criminal policies and absurd blockades that include food and medicines are being added ... with the purpose of annihilating whole populations out of hunger and diseases?

This shows that the care being delivered is not ideal, as in up to one in four cases, patients are not receiving medicines that are proven to save lives. But the data also shows that there is wide variance among hospitals - some are near perfect in the use of certain drugs while others are down in the 50 percent to 60 percent range of adherence. This shows that there still is much room for improvement.

While it is horrible that some children who take antidepressant medications commit suicide, putting the blame on medicines that help treat millions of persons with mental illnesses is irresponsible and is a blatant attempt to frighten parents, children and patients. There are risks to antidepressant treatment, but the risks of untreated depression are worse.

We are engaged in an ongoing effort to enhance efficiencies throughout the company and improve the way we discover, develop, manufacture and market our medicines and vaccines.

Unfortunately, guidance by the Office of Inspector General makes it very difficult for companies to continue providing free or discounted medicines to Medicare beneficiaries. ... The threat of anti-kickback violations has spooked a lot of people.

This upgrade will mean that vital medicines for some of our most vulnerable patients - such as babies, children and bone marrow transplant patients - can be made on site in a new purpose-built environment, reducing their chance of infection,

Twelve studies (940 patients) reported that Chinese herbal medicines reduced the risk of death at 12 months by roughly one-third." ()

When you make something as important as the medicines that keep us alive, you've got to do everything in your power to make sure those medicines reach the people who need them, especially when the people can't afford to have those prescriptions filled. The companies are committed to taking care of everyone who calls in and signs up.

We are supporting our key in-line and newly launched medicines, driving important new medicines through the pipeline and taking a series of specific actions to build Pfizer's value.

Bird flu-related issues are now one of our top concerns. We are planning to keep one to three months' worth of anti-flu medicines in storage.

Biomedical research is only as good as its delivery. Distribution of medicines by charities is no more than a stopgap.

Cough is very common in children. However, cough and cold medicines are not useful in children and can actually be harmful. In most cases, a cough that is unrelated to chronic lung conditions, environmental influences, or other specific factors, will resolve on its own.

I very much welcome this landmark agreement. This regulation will improve the health of children by ensuring innovation in the development of medicines for their use.

These medicines are clearly an improvement on no treatment at all, ... But it's also clear that we need new treatments.

These medicines affect all skeletal bones, but they're most concentrated in the jaw.

The study demonstrated that these medicines are effective, but that doctors and patients are looking for more. The medicines didn't completely alleviate symptoms or enable the majority of the patients to experience a complete recovery.

People are using vitamins and minerals no longer as an adjunct to diet, but as medicines in their own right.

During that six-year time period, prices for all medicines went up 16 percent, compared to an overall inflation rate for all products of 15 percent.

This agreement will allow the delivery of life-saving medicines to people who desperately need them. It represents a big breakthrough in our efforts to begin treatment programs in places where, until now, there has been virtually no medicine, and therefore no hope.

This agreement builds on Bristol-Myers' long-standing commitment to the global fight against AIDS. In Sub-Saharan Africa, where the HIV/AIDS pandemic has been especially devastating, we've taken a broad-based approach to addressing the AIDS crisis, including providing our AIDS medicines at no profit prices and committing to ensure our patents do not prevent inexpensive treatment in the region.

A lot of patients we see come in asking for topical medicines because of wax burns and scars.

There's a certain libertarian right-wing view that there should be no FDA, that people can decide for themselves whether medicines are safe and effective. That's nonsense. Most people don't have the expertise or the resources to mount a proper study to find out whether a treatment is safe or effective.

The Republicans have shown us that they're corrupt. More importantly, lately, they've shown us how incompetent they've been, and how divided. We're not going to roll over for Texas oil companies. Democrats will make sure our seniors can get the medicines they need at a price they can afford...

It seems that the Howard Government is getting ready to roll over on some important PBS protections that will leave Australians worse off and make their essential medicines even more costly.

It's a concern that reducing access to these medicines can do a number of things to the health-care system. We already have a shortage of pharmacists, and if were to put all these products behind the counter, that would put an additional burden on pharmacists that's probably not warranted.

It is very clear that the present system of innovation for medicines is very inefficient and really somewhat corrupt. It benefits shareholders over patients; it produces for the rich markets and not for the poor and does not produce for minority diseases.

That means regular doctors visits. That means going to the dentist. That means having your eyes checked. That means coverage for the medicines children need,

I've got a college education and I've seen some of this stuff and I don't get it. I can imagine an elderly woman trying to figure it out. Companies will cover some medicines and not others - what a zoo - they should all cover all the medicines.

Not only are we getting the medicines back but we are doing some research about the types of medicines and the level of adherence by consumers and patients to their medicines.

The new BNF for Children is a very exciting development and an important tool in improving the quality of prescribing medicines for children.

It's no big stretch to do it for a medicine, particularly in a case like this, where a patent owner cannot supply the stockpiles of medicines that the WHO says are necessary.

The ministry of health is determined to defend and promote indigenous knowledge systems, because we believe that traditional medicines and traditional health practitioners have an important role to play in the health system of the country.

The FDA is letting politics trump science in the way it approves medicines for the American consumer,

In the eyes of many common residents now, doctors are not angels who save the dying and treat injuries, but enemies who always want patients to buy more medicines and undergo unnecessary examinations.

High tariffs keep them out of key markets, and tariffs and subsidies together drive down the world price of their exports. Without the income that trade could provide, it is their children who go hungry and who are deprived of clean water, medicines and other basic necessities of life.

By focusing intense efforts on Botswana, we hope to show what can be achieved with comprehensive efforts across the entire spectrum of care, from voluntary testing and counseling and education to the provision of increased access to medicines and appropriate monitoring of treatment,

By expanding traditional prescribing roles, patients can more easily access the medicines they need from an increased number of highly trained health professionals.

The herbalist I met a few times - it was great - she gave me literature about the different processes that an herbalist would do to make medicines from certain herbs and things.

A lot of medicines are not there to cure diseases. That's fine - drugs that keep people alive who wouldn't otherwise be alive are useful. What I object to is the drug companies' advertising, which you see everywhere in the U.S., which claims that they are curing diseases when they're not.

The Department of Health is completing the analysis of the data that will assist in determining a new dispensing fee that can be charged by pharmacists on medicines in line with the ruling of the Constitutional Court.

Amgen continues to seek out meaningful ways to communicate the progress we have made discovering and developing innovative and vital medicines that have helped millions of patients fight cancer, kidney disease and other serious illnesses. Through the Amgen Tour of California sponsorship, we will raise awareness of the proper use of our medicines and the medical breakthroughs possible through biotechnology while partnering with The Wellness Community to further support cancer patients and caregivers.

The medicines of today are based upon thousands of years of knowledge accumulated from folklore, serendipity and scientific discovery. The new medicines of tomorrow will be based on the discoveries that are being made now, arising from basic research in laboratories around the world.

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

Biology has improved, so the chance of having new medicines and vaccines are stronger today than ever,

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor