1often in phrase big pharmamass nounPharmaceutical companies collectively as a sector of industry.
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In sickness and in wealth, big pharma remains the most profitable industry in America.
Social psychological research has repeatedly shown that doctors misjudge the influence exerted on them by big pharma's gifts and representatives.
Academia does more basic research than pharma; pharma does more clinical work than academia.
Among the many wiles exposed are big pharma's use of contract research organisations to exert undue influence over clinical research and its insidious seduction of doctors.
The effective cure of the biggest killer in the Western world would have been a triumph for mankind, medicine, and big pharma.
2A pharmaceutical company.
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The big pharmas are always whining that their drugs have to cost so much because their R & D costs are so high.
It already has two drugs on the market and has numerous alliances with larger pharmas.
‘Most pharmas sell chemically produced products,’ he said.
The pharmas have been very averse to lowering those prices in the developing world for fear that it will set a precedent.
Weighing up the risks, Pfizer faces the normal development delays and setbacks which pharmas encounter with regard to the timing, efficacy and market potential of new products.
Definition of pharma in US English:
pharma
nounˈfɑrməˈfärmə
1often in phrase big pharmaPharmaceutical companies collectively as a sector of industry.
Example sentencesExamples
Academia does more basic research than pharma; pharma does more clinical work than academia.
The effective cure of the biggest killer in the Western world would have been a triumph for mankind, medicine, and big pharma.
Social psychological research has repeatedly shown that doctors misjudge the influence exerted on them by big pharma's gifts and representatives.
Among the many wiles exposed are big pharma's use of contract research organisations to exert undue influence over clinical research and its insidious seduction of doctors.
In sickness and in wealth, big pharma remains the most profitable industry in America.
2A pharmaceutical company.
Example sentencesExamples
‘Most pharmas sell chemically produced products,’ he said.
The big pharmas are always whining that their drugs have to cost so much because their R & D costs are so high.
It already has two drugs on the market and has numerous alliances with larger pharmas.
Weighing up the risks, Pfizer faces the normal development delays and setbacks which pharmas encounter with regard to the timing, efficacy and market potential of new products.
The pharmas have been very averse to lowering those prices in the developing world for fear that it will set a precedent.