Sentences with phrase «other drugs used for»

Other drugs used for this purpose are ivermectin and moxidectin.

Not exact matches

From 2011, Bitcoin was best known for its association with the dark web bazaar called Silk Road, where unscrupulous folks used it to buy or sell drugs and other contraband under the guise of pseudonyms — the only basic protection Bitcoin afforded.

Colleagues said it would be used for money laundering, drugs, and other illicit activities, he says — the same criticisms lobbed at Bitcoin when it debuted.

And much of the reason its creators felt confident enough to invest all that time, money, and effort — given the small number of patients who might eventually use the medicine — can be traced to the Orphan Drug Act, a 1983 federal law that gave those who develop meds for uncommon diseases longer periods of marketing exclusivity and other financial incentives.

Shkreli originally became infamous for his other former company Turing Pharma's 5,000 % price hike for a drug used by cancer and AIDS patients.

These risks and uncertainties include, among others: the unfavorable outcome of litigation, including so - called «Paragraph IV» litigation and other patent litigation, related to any of our products or products using our proprietary technologies, which may lead to competition from generic drug manufacturers; data from clinical trials may be interpreted by the FDA in different ways than we interpret it; the FDA may not agree with our regulatory approval strategies or components of our filings for our products, including our clinical trial designs, conduct and methodologies and, for ALKS 5461, evidence of efficacy and adequacy of bridging to buprenorphine; clinical development activities may not be completed on time or at all; the results of our clinical development activities may not be positive, or predictive of real - world results or of results in subsequent clinical trials; regulatory submissions may not occur or be submitted in a timely manner; the company and its licensees may not be able to continue to successfully commercialize their products; there may be a reduction in payment rate or reimbursement for the company's products or an increase in the company's financial obligations to governmental payers; the FDA or regulatory authorities outside the U.S. may make adverse decisions regarding the company's products; the company's products may prove difficult to manufacture, be precluded from commercialization by the proprietary rights of third parties, or have unintended side effects, adverse reactions or incidents of misuse; and those risks and uncertainties described under the heading «Risk Factors» in the company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10 - K and in subsequent filings made by the company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission («SEC»), which are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.

But before his arrest, he said he'd use KaloBios as a vehicle to nab another niche drug, this time for treatment of the parasitic infection Chagas disease, and dramatically increase its price to the $ 60,000 to $ 100,000 range after helping it win FDA approval (the drug is approved in other countries and is provided to patients in the U.S. on a special and selective basis).

Other occupations are using A.I. in tandem with people: Lawyers use software that can analyze cases and search for relevant past rulings; pharmaceutical firms use algorithms to aid in drug discovery.

For example, artemisinin is meant to be used in combination with other drugs.

While it's not approved specifically for anti-aging treatments, like other drugs, it can be prescribed for so - called off - label uses as long as there is no advertising or efficacy claims involved.

Ross Ulbricht, 30, was convicted on all seven counts he faced by a federal jury in Manhattan, following a closely - watched trial that spilled out of U.S. investigations into the use of the digital currency bitcoin for drug trafficking and other crimes.

The suspected operator of the underground website Silk Road was convicted on Wednesday on narcotics and other criminal charges for his role in orchestrating a scheme that enabled around $ 200 million of anonymous online drug sales using bitcoins.

People in Russia and other parts of Eastern Europe are reportedly clamoring to get their hands on the drug Maria Sharapova used for 10 years and which caused her to fail a drug test during the Australian Open tennis tournament in January.

Perhaps this will include research and development of drugs for other diseases, albeit with fewer researchers, but to date, neither the amount the company will save nor its specific use of these freed - up resources has been detailed.

Because payments with it are essentially impossible to trace, a lot of its use case has been for buying and selling drugs and weapons and carrying out other illegal transactions.

He said the bank is concerned bitcoin might be used for fraud or other illegal activities like terrorism, money laundering, prostitution, drug trafficking.

While high price tags are common for rare disease drugs, Emflaza is part of a class of drugs called corticosteroids that are used for DMD in other parts of the world.

He said that many patients use the drug for far less than a year and that the price was now more in line with those of other drugs for rare diseases.

Among other things, it has been criticized as a scam — based on economic assumptions that are described as «laughable» — and has come under fire from the U.S. Senate for the ease with which drug dealers and other subversive elements can make use of it.

One of the few negatives on an otherwise fairly positive day of trading was the 5 % decline of Reckitt Benckiser, producers of a drug used to help get drug users off of Heroin called Suboxone, which acts as a replacement for the Class A. Reckitt's patent for Suboxone is due to expire in the relatively near future, so they have been trying to push doctors and other pharmaceutical vendors towards their film version of the drug, which is still under patent and will be for quite some time.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- The suspected mastermind behind the underground website Silk Road was convicted on narcotics and other charges on Wednesday for his role in orchestrating a scheme that enabled around $ 200 million of anonymous online drug sales using bitcoins.

Ross Ulbricht, 30, was found guilty by a Manhattan federal jury on all seven counts he faced after a closely watched four - week trial spilling out of U.S. investigations of the use of the bitcoin digital currency for drug trafficking and other crimes.

Avandia, a controversial diabetes drug that was thought to increase patients» risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems, has been cleared for widespread use by the Food and Drug Administratdrug that was thought to increase patients» risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems, has been cleared for widespread use by the Food and Drug AdministratDrug Administration.

They didn't produce anything themselves, only used the capital markets to purchase the rights to drugs that others developed and figure out how to sell them for more money.

The problem is that many people are already using this type of currency for illegal transactions such as buying drugs, murder for hire and other criminal activities.

To him, anonymity clearly means that it can be used even more conveniently for funding terror activities and other illicit trades such as drugs and weapons.

(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.

However, stats are numbers that are easily manipulated, and if you want to drug yourself via the pill or use any other type of contraception, PAY FOR IT YOURSELF!

For example, in «Crime, Drugs, Welfare — and Other Good News,» a recent and somewhat contrarian article in Commentary, Peter Wehner and Yuval Levin applauded the fact that various measures of social disaster and dysfunction seem to be improving from previous lows, including, among others, violent crime and property crime, and teen alcohol and tobacco use.

This makes me happy: Research on ribosomes by Noller and others has led to the development of novel antibiotics that hold promise for use against drug - resistant bacteria.

A religion that restricts lifestyle in a variety of other ways is less likely to be a over for drug use than a religion that teaches only the duty to take drugs.

That cash is then used for alcohol, drugs, or just about any other non-food item the poor person feels they «need.»

It is, in other words, one of the most toxic, dangerous, and potentially fatal drugs in the entire PDR, and it has been approved for use by the FDA only for the treatment of cancer — which is to say, the dangers of this drug are so massive that they are outweighed only by the benefit of abating or curing cancer.

Pro-Life relates to many issues: insurance for those who can not afford, gun control, illegal drug traffic, poverty (homeless, elderly, etc. widows and orphans)... we are becoming pawns used to dominate the politics of losers who can not justify their candidacy by any other means.

The same association with HIV decline can not be said for condom use, coverage of HIV testing, treatment for curable sexually transmitted infections, provision of antiretroviral drugs, or any other intervention or behavior....

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

About five percent are used for teaching purposes, another five percent for diagnosis of disease, twenty percent for production of biological substances («biologicals») and for toxicity testing, thirty percent in development of drugs and their testing, and forty percent for other research activities such as the present work in genetic engineering to increase the size of sheep and pigs.

She asked for prayers for Woman at the Well, a small nonprofit she was starting for women to do what others had done for her — take them off the streets, out of prostitution and drug use and teach them about Jesus» great love for them.

The Bible teaches us that Jesus not does not want Wall Street investors getting rich through the suffering of others (a / k / a drug company stocks)-- how many people suffer physically or even die from drugs that should have never been approved for use — but instead are dispensed — to the joy of investors — only to have patients suffer as a result.

Potential subjects were accepted into the study if they had none of the following conditions: severe or symptomatic cardiac disease or hypertension; history of bleeding disorders; chronic history of gastric, intestinal, liver, pancreatic, or renal disease; any portion of the stomach or the intestine removed (other than an appendectomy); history of intestinal obstruction, malabsorption, or use of antacid drugs; cancer (active or use of medications for a history of cancer treatment within the past 5 y); history of chronic alcoholism; a convulsive disorder; or abnormal results in screening blood or urine samples.

This was before Mackey had won a single Iditarod, let alone four straight; before he used what he calls his marathon style — catnapping as his sled moves and covering 100 - mile chunks at a moderate pace without prolonged rest, instead of sprinting from rest stop to rest stop like most other racers — to win an unprecedented double (the Yukon Quest, the world's other 1,000 - mile dogsled race, and just weeks later the Iditarod) not once but twice; before he became so dominant that slower competitors complained they had no chance to finish within five days of him (the requirement for an official place and a commemorative belt buckle); and before a rival pushed for drug testing at the 2010 Iditarod, suspecting that Mackey's secret was his prescription for medical marijuana to alleviate the side effects of cancer treatment.

Scan the list of abuses that beset college sports, and your football team can claim, going back to 1980, at least one entry in virtually every category: improper benefits; recruiting violations; boosters run amok; academic cheating; use of steroids and recreational drugs; suppressed or ignored positive tests for drugs; player run - ins with other students as well as with campus and off - campus police; the discharge of weapons and the degradation of women in the football dorm; credit - card fraud and telephone credit - card fraud.

He was also using a host of other drugs that helped with performance, all of which would be great for a UFC athlete: testosterone, other steroids, IGF, EPO, blood doping.

Most American schools today operate according to a philosophy of discipline that has its roots in the 1980s and 1990s, when a belief that schools would be safer and more effective if they allowed for «zero tolerance» of violence, drug use, and other misbehavior led to a sharp rise in school suspensions.

The need for such testing may be brought to the attention of the principal through a search authorized by § 49-6-4204 or § 49-6-4205, observed or reported use of drugs by the student on school property, or other reasonable information received from a teacher, staff member or other student.

Be Aware, Not Impaired — Drinking and drug use impair your ability to care for a baby, making bed - sharing and other unsafe sleep even more dangerous for the baby.

Although a drink here and there won't pose any negative risks to your baby (as long as you follow the proper precautions), drinking excessively or using other drugs while breastfeeding is unhealthy and dangerous for both of you.

For one thing, the researchers looked only at the three factors of depression, drug use and delinquency, but there are many other behaviors which are likely improved by regular family dinners, from a child's eating habits to table manners to conversational skills.

So how can parents concerned their teen might be using opioids or other drugs find out for sure?

While many drugs are used off - label for other indications, it is important to note that domperidone is not approved for any indication in the United States.