Sentences with phrase «old drug leads»

Old Drug Leads to New Cure Kimmel Cancer Center scientists discover that high dose cyclophosphamide, without bone marrow transplant, cures aplastic anemia and several autoimmune diseases.

Not exact matches

The 32 - year - old Ramaswamy has been able to sway a slew of biopharma vets to lead his companies and take a chance on his audacious, risky approach to drug development.

U.S. drugmaker Turing Pharmaceuticals, led at the time by hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli, caused outrage last year by raising the U.S. price of Daraprim, an old anti-infective drug, by more than 5,000 % to $ 750 a pill.

At Turing, he bought a decades - old anti-infective drug and in August raised the price to $ 750 a pill from $ 13.50, which led the BBC to ask if he was the «most hated man in America.»

The ban came about in the first place for political reasons more than a legitimate health concern, and the propaganda was pure fear mongering, leading people who have done research to see opponents as merely ignorantly reiterating the old lies on a pavlovian reflex upon hearing the label «drug» which is equally applicable to caffeine.

That vacuum of support can easily be filled by old influences leading to drug use, reoffending and life back in the slammer.

The Oneonta Police Department is investigating the death of State University student Daniel Michaels of Dix Hills Saturday, preliminary reports suggest that a combination of drugs & alcohol led to a cardiac arrest, which led to the death the 18 - year - old.

Both drugs are about equally effective at treating macular degeneration, the leading cause of visual impairment in older adults.

Though Shkreli is best known for hiking the price of a decades - old drug by 5,000 percent when he led Turing Pharmaceuticals, this trial related to an entirely different matter: Ponzi - like fraud.

Investigations based on these proteins might lead to new ways to combat the disease, including a vaccine, new types of drugs to block the growth of the bacteria, or even restoring the efficacy of some older antibiotics that have lost their usefulness, said Aleksandra Sikora, an assistant professor in the OSU College of Pharmacy.

A new study shows that a 70 - year - old malaria drug can block immune cells in the liver so nanoparticles can arrive at their intended tumor site, overcoming a significant hurdle of targeted drug delivery, according to a team of researchers led by Houston Methodist.

It may also lead to improved therapies to fight sleeping sickness; current medications used to combat the disease have improved over the past decade but still include an old arsenic - based drug that kills between 5 and 10 percent of the people receiving treatment, said the study's senior author Stephen Hajduk, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.

Age is the greatest risk factor for developing AD, leading us to develop a drug discovery procedure that is based upon old - age - associated pathologies without requiring pre-selected molecular targets [6, 7].

A new study, led by Jiri Bartek (Karolinska Institutet / SciLifeLab) has explored the potential for using disulfiram, also known as Antabuse — an old alcohol - aversion drug, to treat cancer.

The use of newer blood - thinners for patients at risk of stroke may lead to two fewer days in the hospital for those who experience complications, with the same survival rate as the older drug warfarin, according to a data study by researchers at UC San Francisco.

Taking the blood thinner warfarin or using nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like aspirin and ibuprofen can lead to easy bruising, especially in older folks who are frequent users of these medicines.

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It's a classic dysfunctional family comedy - drama in many respects, with every single family member of the central Jacobs family dealing with some sort of personal trouble: older sister Dana (Slate) with misgivings about her engagement to Ben (Jay Duplass), which she channels into an affair with an old college friend, Nate (Finn Wittrock); younger sister Ali (Abby Quinn) with a rebellious nature that leads her into all - night clubbing and increasingly adventurous drug use; and their on - the - outs parents, Pat (Edie Falco) and Alan (John Turturro), the stagnation of their marriage only magnified when Ali discovers her father indulging in his own philandering.

Victor stumbles on the remnants of a drug ring, decades old, and that leads to a sitting Supreme Court justice who might be involved in Joey's murder and another murder that happened twenty years before.

Jack's offer to help an old buddy's son escape a framed murder charge, leads ISP from Manchester and London, across Europe into Lithuania and the mountains of Tajikistan hunting down the peddlers of illicit synthetic drugs, murder, and prostitution rings.

Other dogs can go deaf from a variety of causes, ranging from chronic ear infections or injuries to drug toxicity and old age, says George M. Strain, PhD, a leading veterinary researcher on the causes of deafness in dogs and a professor of neuroscience at the School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University.

Generally, this kind of business is subject to minimal regulation, but environmental laws to limit the scope of businesses that may legally dispose of certain kinds of waste such as toxic materials (e.g. drugs, batteries, things containing lead or mercury such as many electronic parts, petroleum products, rubber tires), and how certain materials must be handled (e.g. old refrigerators have to have doors removed).

This led the Food and Drug Administration to announce an important step forward in broadening access: Plan B One - Step will become available without a prescription for women 15 years of age and older.

Offering a three - phase approach to treating addiction, Wellness Resource Center is a leading provider of substance abuse services for men and women ages 18 and older who desire the healthier, drug - free lives they deserve.