: a pharmaceutical company
also
: large pharmaceutical companies as a group
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Larger pharma companies like Roche, Amgen (AMGN), and Pfizer are also working on their own anti-obesity drugs.
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Bruce Gil, Quartz, 9 Oct. 2024
Viking Therapeutics is developing both a weight loss injection and a pill while large pharma companies like Roche and Pfizer are also working on their own anti-obesity drugs.
—Bruce Gil, Quartz, 25 Sep. 2024
Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharma giant, has seen its fortunes reach astronomical heights since its drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy, took off.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 29 July 2024
Emergent BioSolutions, a U.S. firm that acquired a smallpox vaccine from French pharma giant Sanofi in 2017 called ACAM2000 that could be made available for use against mpox, has also surged, gaining around 12% on Wednesday and 14% on Thursday.
—Robert Hart, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
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Bruce Gil, Quartz, 9 Oct. 2024
Viking Therapeutics is developing both a weight loss injection and a pill while large pharma companies like Roche and Pfizer are also working on their own anti-obesity drugs.
—Bruce Gil, Quartz, 25 Sep. 2024
Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharma giant, has seen its fortunes reach astronomical heights since its drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy, took off.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 29 July 2024
Emergent BioSolutions, a U.S. firm that acquired a smallpox vaccine from French pharma giant Sanofi in 2017 called ACAM2000 that could be made available for use against mpox, has also surged, gaining around 12% on Wednesday and 14% on Thursday.
—Robert Hart, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
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pharma
noun
phar·ma
ˈfär-mə 
: a pharmaceutical company
But the rate at which pharmas have grown in size pales beside the acceleration of relevant scientific knowledge during the same period.—Science
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also
: large pharmaceutical companies as a group
Another issue pharma will face is an even more cost-conscious consumer as a result of insurers continuing to pass on additional costs to their members. —Shaun Urban, Medical Marketing and Media
Shaun Urban, Medical Marketing and Media The Medicare prescription drug benefit enacted in 2003, and scheduled to go into effect in 2006, promises a windfall for big pharma since it forbids the government from negotiating prices. —Marcia Angell, The New York Review of Books
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