Sentences with phrase «argue against drugs»

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Earlier this month, NBCC's outspoken president, attorney Fran Visco, sounded off against approving the drug Avastin for breast cancer, arguing that «it does not show clinical benefit.»

Judge Carlos Lucero, in a partial dissent, argued against such immunity: «The notion that a device manufacturer is immune from liability for harm caused by its device when the manufacturer has pushed the device for a use that the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] never approved is neither logical nor consistent with the Supreme Court's prior rulings about the scope of preemption of claims arising from harm caused by medical devices.»

AIDS activists argued that the committee should recommend against approving ddC for either use; they hoped to force Hoffmann - La Roche to conduct more studies to clarify how the drug can best be used.

September 20, 2011 Food and drugs: Administer together A regulatory bias against taking oral anti-cancer medications with food places many patients at increased risk for an overdose and forces them to «flush costly medicines down the toilet,» argues Mark Ratain, MD, an authority on cancer - drug dosing.

Arthritis: Allergy, Nutrition & The Environment by Dr. John Mansfield and Dr. Stephen Davies argues against suppressing arthritic symptoms with drugs, and outlines exactly what action sufferers of arthritis can take in terms of nutrition and identifying allergens to tackle the cause of the illness.

Rose McGowan's lawyers have filed a motion to dismiss a drug - possession charge against her by arguing that cocaine was planted in her belongings, perhaps by «the Harvey Weinstein machine.»

Some health experts see the current regulatory hiatus on e-cigarettes as no bad thing: They argue that, e-cigarettes are a vital quitting aid for existing smokers; that they are relatively «harmless» when set against conventional cigarettes, due to the absence of tar; and that nicotine, per se, while highly addictive, is a relatively benign drug.

In Hollywood, the rehab facility argued that that sentence precluded plaintiff from bringing his negligence claim against it as it was not the supplier of the drugs that caused his injury.