Michael Friedman Quotes (24 Quotes)

The Congress and the American public have said they want smaller, more efficient government. I think the FDA has certainly recognized and responded to that,

You don't expose potentially tens of millions of women to a powerful treatment with the assumption it's going to help them, ... looks very promising, but the question is for which patients, at what cost in toxicity.

Someone once told me, 'You don't know it yet, but we are the lucky ones.' But I do know it. I have found a new definition of what it means to live (because) I have seen what it means to die.

We regret having to make these painful workforce reductions, but believe they are necessary for us to remain a strong, vibrant organization,

Consumption of excessive alcohol while taking pain relievers can be dangerous to your health.

These 1 million to 5 million yachts are like floating condos. People who can afford them are getting good pricing on them. They're also taking advantage of low interest rates. Also, if these boats come with a kitchen and restroom, then they can be classified as a second home and the interest can be written off as such.

I decided to use that as my wish from the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

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The only time I wasn't in school was about a year and a half ago, when I was really sick and in the hospital for a whole month.

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I was inspired by the brilliant minds of the doctors treating me. I had always considered becoming a doctor. Now I know what specialty I want to go into.

The stock trades at about 9 times its 2003 earnings,

The word is slowly getting out. During the last week of December we got an unbelievable number of donations, a lot of them from cancer survivors or relatives of cancer patients.

There is reason to believe that quite a number of them have already been consumed and we are following back this pathway very closely.

We know that some individuals who have taken these diet medications have heart values that are thick and don't function properly. They can cause the heart to perform poorly over time and become weaker over time.

I think that we, in looking back ... think that it would have been quite appropriate to refer the matter at that time,

Rather than viewing a contract simply as documenting a deal for the future, smart businesses use it as a source of information. Lawyers can set up incentives so that payments only get made if certain benchmarks are met.

One may view the past record very innocently -- as mistakes made, sloppiness, management problems on the part of the company, ... Or one may look take it much differently, and see a more sinister trend.

A lot of kids wish to meet a certain celebrity or go somewhere special for vacation. When I was in the hospital so much, I realized how lucky I was to have my videogames and other things that made my visits go by more quickly. There's a lot of down time, and if you don't have something to focus on, it can really get hard.

Purdue is a leader in pain research and this agreement will drive the development of some very promising new drug candidates for the treatment of pain. We hope to file an investigational new drug (IND) application and commence human clinical trials in early 2007 for a compound that has already been identified, to be followed thereafter by IND filings for additional drug candidates on a yearly basis.

I've learned how important it is to live for the moment. But I'm still planning for the future.

It's pretty obvious that, on the surface, they have a hard argument to make that all of this was reasonably necessary. You've got two unusual facts Someone convicted of a sex offense was assigned to this, and the second is that the amount of money it took (to investigate) was the absolute maximum.

This is an absolutely critical gift at this moment. There's some tremendously exciting observations being made about ways to manipulate the immune system to help our cancer patients.

The first question I asked my dad after the relapse was if I could still do the foundation. He said 'definitely.' The foundation has helped me as a distraction, a way I can take my mind off of what's happening with my illness.