Sentences with phrase «available drugs only»

Available drugs only marginally affect disease severity, making Alzheimer's disease effectively untreatable.

Not exact matches

Sales of the drug in Ontario will only be available through government - run online or in standalone stores,, while some other provinces such as Alberta and British Columbia are allowing for some private sales of cannabis.

With this merger, I foresee the drugs available to me will dwindle to not what is in the best interest of my health care to only what is available at CVS, enabling a yet bigger profit for Mr. Bertolini.

Enacted in 2003 as part of legislation providing drug benefits under Medicare, the tax preference is only available if the individual purchases a high - deductible health insurance policy.

The alarmist prediction that cheap available drugs could lead to an addiction rate of 75 percent of regular users simply ignores the fact that 35 to 40 million Americans are already using some drugs and that only 3 percent become addicts.

It's a crime not only that illegal drugs have become so available and popular, but also that more individuals aren't working to reduce the drug problem.

These drugs are available on prescription only.

With no apparent drug available for vomiting, altering the diet is the only possible treatment.

Current FDA regulations make AEDs, like many drugs, available only to those with a physician's prescription.

To date, about 150 doctors are registered to prescribe the drug to patients with a strict list of debilitating conditions, and only 51 patients statewide are currently registered to purchase the nonsmokable forms of the drug that are being made available.

Cuomo did not say when marijuana will be available under an expedited program, only that the drug would be dispensed to eligible patients «as soon as practicable.»

Huber offers insight on not only the number of people battling drug addiction and the amount of money that is involved with fueling addiction, but also what can be done to ensure proper treatment is available to addicts, as well as what needs to be done to help reduce the addiction numbers in Chautauqua County.

Until recently the only treatments available for conditions affecting the brain were drugs or surgery — a «hammer over the head approach», according to William Tyler, a biomedical engineer at Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute in Roanoke and a pioneer of the new brain stimulation techniques.

Despite its prevalence, there is no vaccine and only one drug (praziquantel) available to counter the parasitic worm.

According to Skala, more than 100 different anticancer drugs are currently available, but only ten to 15 are used regularly.

The recent death of a Nevada woman who visited India and contracted a superbug infection — which resisted all available antibiotic drugs in the U.S. — only underscores that risk, he says.

Cell transplantation as a treatment for diabetes is still essentially experimental, uses cells from cadavers, requires the use of powerful immunosuppressive drugs, and has been available to only a very small number of patients.

So far, even the best available drugs treat only symptoms.

The Food and Drug Administration - approved yellow fever vaccine, YF - VAX, is currently unavailable in the US because of manufacturing difficulties, and the alternative yellow fever vaccine, Stamaril, is only available through a limited number of US yellow fever vaccination clinics.

By 2000, pharmaceutical pipelines were filled with «me too» drugs that offered low risk and a quick route to approval, but only marginal improvement over drugs already available.

AMID ominous signs that H5N1 bird flu is acquiring the ability to spread more readily among people, many health authorities are pinning their hopes on Tamiflu, the only available antiviral drug known to block the replication of the virus.

Other experimental drugs are also available only in small quantities.

This approach, however, differs from liquid biopsies, including commercial tests, which only profile a relatively small portion of the genome in patients already diagnosed with cancer for the purpose of helping monitor the disease or detect actionable alterations that can be matched to available drugs or clinical trials.

Of the US$ 6.3 billion available in 2014 to respond to the global TB epidemic, about a third ($ 1.8 billion) was for MDR - TB (despite drug resistant TB forming only 5 % of the total caseload).

However, the precise nature of that role is undergoing a visible change, not only because of the new synthetic methods and technologies now available to the synthetic and medicinal chemist, but also in several key areas, particularly in drug metabolism and chemical toxicology, as chemists deal with the ever more rapid turnaround of testing data that influences their day - to - day decisions.

When Ellen began her fieldwork in 2005, antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) in Winam were only available at very high cost.

Anti-TNF-α drugs are currently available, but they work in only about a third of the patients and increase the risks of lymphoma and serious infections.

Some cancer drugs inhibit secreted growth factors but have been only partially effective at blocking angiogenesis (SN: 6/7/03, p. 358: Available to subscribers at Cancer Advance: Treatment combinations stall colorectal cancer).

The best available drug for late - stage liver cancer prolongs life by only three months.

When treatment begins to fail, University of Chicago medical oncologists with expertise in GIST can offer treatment with multiple novel agents, including sunitinib or investigational drugs available only through clinical trials.

Gaining this type of understanding is critical for drug discovery since the currently available treatments are only marginally effective.

While immunotherapy has shown great promise, the currently available drugs work for only a minority of patients.

While this technique is currently only available in animal models, it provides an important window into the brain generally — revealing the roles different cells play and identifying potential new targets for drug treatments in humans.

Currently available treatments including hydroxyurea, which is the only FDA approved drug for SCA, and hemopoietic stem cell transplantation all have significant limitations, so the search for new therapeutic options continues.

The researchers offer four steps for improving the review process: develop methodological standards for evaluating evidence used to back off - label drug recommendations; combine the findings into one «single, rigorously developed resource» rather than five inconsistent reference guides; assess whether those reviewing and determining off - label drug use policies have potential financial conflicts of interest; and make the compendia listings, which currently are only available by subscription, free to the public.

Prilosec OTC is the only PPI available over the counter; the rest of the drugs in this class require a prescription.

And because generics are available only for drugs whose patent has run out, the competition in the marketplace among manufacturers drives the price down.

«Up until now, the only other prescription drug available to treat diarrhea was alosetron (Lotronex) which was only reserved for very severe cases since it can cause a potentially life - threatening condition called ischemic colitis, which reduces blood flow to the large intestine,» explains Dr. Sam.

But of those that stocked the drugs, only 23 % made them readily available on store shelves, without any restrictions or special requirements.

Due to risks associated with drinking alcohol while taking the drug, the FDA says flibanserin will only be available through specially certified health care professionals and certified pharmacies.

But it's the only drug in its class that's available in an extended - release capsule.

Those drugs are available only by prescription, but over-the-counter meds are to blame for swelling too.

The problem is that clenbuterol has extensive side effects and has in fact been banned in the US and is no longer a part of any therapeutic drug approved by the FDA and is available in only few countries via prescription alone as a bronchodilator.

There is an effective and rapid natural treatment option available for men who experience yeast infections, and this solution exists without having to resort to pharmaceutical drugs such as antibiotics that only produce unwanted side effects.

FDA - approved medications are available to remove toxic metals — and that is the only effective treatment, nothing else works, not drugs, not surgery, not anything else.

It's a prescription drug available only via the recommendation of a doctor.

We prefer not to compare supplements and drugs as one is available over the counter and the latter is available only by prescription.

Although medicinal laxatives are available to aid smooth digestion, it is best to consider these only after using herbal therapies first, after making sure the herbal medicine you choose does not have adverse side effects or drug interactions.

The only biguanide drug currently available in the U.S. is metformin (Glucophage / Glucovance), but it's the best - selling oral diabetes drug in the country.

The few drugs that are available tend to stop working over time, giving patients and families only a brief reprieve from the disease's relentless progression.