Sentences with phrase «currently available drugs»

«Joint supplements are popular because they enable a consumer to provide relief for their arthritic dog at a fraction of the cost of currently available drugs and without all the possible side effects,» explains Sinead Imbaro, president of Olympic Olympic Brands, Inc., a Miami, Fla. - based manufacturer of NutriFlex brand joint supplements.

Most research has focused on improving currently available drugs, but gains have been modest.

How does treatment with this controversial technique differ from currently available drugs?

Currently available drugs used for heart failure work at the surface of heart cells.

Researchers have developed an opioid compound that targets specific pain receptors in cells, but without producing the addictive qualities typical of currently available drugs.

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

Some trials may exclude patients previously treated with currently available drugs.

«Our findings may allow us to modify receptor signalling in ways that far exceed simple receptor blockade or activation, as achieved with currently available drugs.

Currently available drugs can modestly improve symptoms and exercise capacity (at best), but can not repair the blood vessel damage to the lungs or cure the disease.

At the same time, bacteria have continued to evolve resistance to all of the currently available drugs, creating the current critical situation.

A one - two combo punch using two currently available drugs could be an effective treatment for the majority of lung cancers, a study by scientists with UT Southwestern's Simmons Cancer Center shows.

Currently available drugs to treat HSV - 1 infection work by preventing the virus from producing the proteins it needs to replicate and are known as nucleoside analogs.

Not exact matches

There are several drugs to treat ALS currently in clinical trials and we are hopeful that people living with ALS have even more therapies available to them sooner rather than later.»

The drug is currently available, though doctors had prescribed it fewer than 4,000 times as of February.

Roche's drug, Valium, has been available on the market now for regarding forty five many years, and of course is currently in its generic variety, Diazepam.

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A broad range of health professionals and scientists, including the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the American Medical Association, and the World Health Organization agree that the genetically modified foods and ingredients currently available and on the market today are safe to consume.

«According to the US Food and Drug Administration, the scientific evidence is «mixed» over the benefits of adding ARA and DHA to baby formula, with no currently available published studies on the long - term impact.

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.

Preclinical trials indicate potential for noscapine as a cancer drug with less toxicity to healthy cells than currently available chemotherapies.

As a result, P - gp causes resistance of the diseased cells to a majority of drugs currently available for the treatment of cancer, as well as drugs used for treatment of infectious diseases like HIV / AIDS.

Currently, however, few NO donor drugs are available for clinical use.

Moreover, the neural therapies currently available — psychoactive drugs and stimulators that send electric current deep into the brain — are blunt instruments.

There are currently no devices approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to control general anesthesia or induced coma, but there is a device available in Europe and South America, based on an algorithm that uses the patient's EEG to compute an index on a 100 - point scale.

Using a novel combination of technologies, including trio exome sequencing of patient / parental DNA and genetic studies in the tiny larvae of zebrafish, the EuroEPINOMICS RES consortium found that mutations in the gene CHD2 are responsible for a subset of epilepsy patients with symptoms similar to Dravet syndrome — a severe form of childhood epilepsy that is in many patients resistant to currently available anti-epileptic drugs.

Over 200 million people contract malaria each year, and the parasite that causes the disease has become resistant to most of the drugs currently available.

For most Dravet patients these seizures can not be treated adequately with currently available anti-epileptic drugs, and therefore the syndrome is classified as pharmacoresistant.

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

The need for new antiflu drugs is increasingly urgent, as several recent flu strains, including the swine flu, have developed resistance to currently available treatments such as Tamiflu.

Currently, Dr. Ocal is trying to find the best combination of available drugs that generates the largest reduction in tumor growth early on.

Approximately one third of people with epilepsy still experience seizures even when receiving treatment, and currently available anti-epileptic drugs often have side effects such as tiredness and dizziness.

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.

Currently available synthetic drugs often show severe side effects.

Currently available antiviral drugs inhibit influenza virus replication, but they are not typically effective when given to patients as little as 2 days after infection.

Frieden said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is «currently coordinating» with other agencies to see whether they can make new treatments available.

«There are currently virtually no treatments for dilated cardiomyopathy targeted to genetic changes, so the finding that commercially available drugs may be effective for patients with childhood - onset, RAF1 - induced DCM is a remarkable advance,» said Bruce Gelb, MD, Director and Gogel Family Professor of the Mindich Child Health and Development Institute at Mount Sinai and senior author.

There is little evidence suggesting that currently available antitussive drugs are effective for cough in any disorder.

To make things worse, no antiviral drugs currently available have proven effective against it, and because scientists do not know where the virus resides between outbreaks, environmental control is impossible.

Wind believes the new microscope is the best tool currently available for observing definitively how drugs, mental stress, and man - made contaminants affect health.

«There are currently no drug therapies available that improve the very limited natural recovery from spinal cord injuries that patients experience,» said Lyn Jakeman, Ph.D., a program director at the NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD. «This is a great step towards identifying a novel agent for helping people recover.»

We hope that by understanding the processes involved in inflammation we will herald the arrival of new and targeted anti-inflammatory drugs that have fewer side effects than what is currently available.»

The three classes of antifungal drugs currently available — azoles, polyenes, and echinocandins — are far from optimal.

Dopamine did not cause hypertension or affect liver functions (i.e., levels of alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase were not elevated, as can happen with currently available anti-VEGF drugs);

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.

No drugs are currently available to mimic a lack of this protein, although the researchers are using a grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to search for one.

The virus with this mutation remains sensitive to the antiviral drugs, oseltamivir and zanamivir, and studies show that currently available pandemic vaccines confer protection.

By screening commercially available drugs currently being used for other diseases, researchers found vorinostat to be an effective anti-seizure drug in zebrafish and mouse models.

Dr Ager added: «There are currently no anti-viral drugs available to treat the vast majority of viruses that cause a wide range of illnesses.

Many of the anti-epilepsy drugs currently available have severe side effects, and there are several types of intractable epilepsies that are resistant to all existing medications.

Erinna says that based on current results, the researchers now believe that a drug targeting BFL - 1 could be highly effective for treatment of melanoma, particularly if used in combination with the currently available MCL -1-targeting molecule.