How to Use drugmaker in a Sentence

drugmaker

noun
  • The state’s lawyers called for the drugmaker’s suit to be dismissed.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022
  • The product’s list price was $2,100 per dose, the drugmaker said then.
    Alexander Ruoff, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2022
  • One root of the problem is the very high prices set by drugmakers.
    Kff Health News, The Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The increase was mainly driven by sales of the over-the-counter version, the drugmaker said.
    Sara G. Miller, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The drugmaker was aiming to match the rate of Aubagio, an oral drug for the disease owned by Sanofi.
    David Sachs, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The pill in the new study — made by the Spanish drugmaker Ferrer — was approved for use in Europe in 2014.
    Erika Edwards, NBC News, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The bottom line: The balance of power is shifting back to the brand-name GLP-1 drugmakers.
    Nathan Bomey, Axios, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The drugmaker cancelled the agreement the next year and moved forward with the development of the drug.
    Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 May 2021
  • The two have raked in tens of billions of dollars in revenue for the Danish drugmaker so far.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune Asia, 19 June 2024
  • The drugmaker is looking for new products to make up for the huge gap left by the fading pandemic.
    Madison Muller, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Yet demand is so strong the drugmaker, Novo Nordisk, can’t keep up.
    Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The specialized tool will help researchers track the virus’ spread and keep tabs on its evolution, the drugmaker said.
    Robert Hart, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • On the short list is Civica Rx, a nonprofit drugmaker based in Utah.
    Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2022
  • Last year, the agency placed a hold on a study by drugmaker Cadence Health, which has also been working on an over-the-counter pill.
    Matthew Perrone, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2022
  • The drugmaker charges your health plan its normal portion of the drug cost, but the patient doesn't pay their normal copay share.
    Katie Wedell, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The drugmaker also raised its full-year 2023 sales forecast.
    WSJ, 1 Aug. 2023
  • But the drugmaker says 50 micrograms ought to be enough for a booster for healthy people.
    Matthew Perrone, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2021
  • That’s the initial Rompe Pecho recall that the drugmaker expanded a few days ago to include the new lots above.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The Danish drugmaker is using the results to build its case that cost-conscious insurers should pay for the medicine, which has a list price of about $1,350 per month in the US.
    Naomi Kresge, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2024
  • While the drugmaker is working to resolve the issue, a quick fix is unlikely.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Hundreds of billions dollars have been spent by drugmakers around the world to try and treat Alzheimer’s, but there’s currently no cure for the disease.
    Time, 4 July 2023
  • Part of this is due to side effects—mostly muscle aches—that were not made clear by drugmakers when statins were first approved.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The vaccine brought in $36.78 billion in revenue last year for Pfizer and was the drugmaker's top-selling product.
    Tom Murphy, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2022
  • The vaccine brought in $36.78 billion in revenue last year for Pfizer and was the drugmaker’s top-selling product.
    Tom Murphy, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Oct. 2022
  • This is a standard price-setting method among drugmakers.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The drugmaker hasn’t responded to a CNN request for comment.
    Laura He, CNN, 6 June 2023
  • The British-Swedish drugmaker pledged last year to distribute the shot at no profit during the pandemic.
    Jenny Strasburg, WSJ, 29 July 2021
  • The drugmaker says its vaccine was 100% effective in its trial for this age group.
    Elizabeth Elkind, CBS News, 13 May 2021
  • And Lilly would grow three times faster than the industry average as a drugmaker.
    Howard Yu, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • If prices rise faster than inflation, drugmakers have to pay Medicare the difference.
    Susan Jaffe, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024

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