Sentences with phrase «as conventional drugs»

Herbal remedies claim to be safe and effective for weight loss, but herbal dietary supplements aren't held to the same standards as conventional drugs.

Not exact matches

The financial loss can range from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars, but the health risk is more serious still as consumers who fall for such scams may be counseled to stop or delay conventional treatment for their disease, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

PMI is currently awaiting decisions from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on whether it can sell iQOS and whether it can promote it as an option that's less risky than conventional cigarettes.

The reflections of the French Catholic writer François Mauriac, who succeeded in leading a conventional family life despite what he experienced as the powerful lure of alcohol, drugs, and homosexuality, demonstrate the gap between the austere piety of the religious individual and the tactful lifestyle that Tóibín detects in James:

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The team's analyses also pointed to many other drugs not previously considered as conventional anti-epilepsy medications.

The conventional idea is that susceptible bugs perish, leaving behind a few individuals whose drug resistance is passed on as they multiply.

Conventional transplant conditioning employs radiation and / or high - dose cytotoxic drugs (also known as alkylators) to destroy the bone marrow and blood and immune cells; it also causes widespread cellular damage throughout the body.

Unlike conventional methods of HIV prevention, such as condoms or anti-HIV drugs, the implant takes advantage of some people's natural immunity to the virus.

Some experts say the nicotine content could lead users to become addicted to e-cigs, or that it could even serve as a gateway to conventional cigarettes and other drugs.

Unregulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, e-cigarettes have been widely promoted by their manufacturers as a way for people to quit smoking conventional cigarettes.

As reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, this drug blocks key enzymes used in mycomembrane biosynthesis, significantly increasing the effectiveness of conventional antibiotics.

The study by researchers at King's College Hospital and the University of Southampton suggests that adding nutraceuticals to chemotherapy cycles may improve the effectiveness of conventional drugs, particularly in hard to treat cancers, such as pancreatic cancer.

Conventional technology such as mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance can measure such components — that is how biochemists test the toxicity of drugs or environmental pollutants on human cells.

While the 3D injectable scaffold is being tested in mice as a potential cancer vaccine, any combination of different antigens and drugs could be loaded into the scaffold, meaning it could also be used to treat infectious diseases that may be resistant to conventional treatments.

• Platinum - Resistant — these are patients whose disease recurred within six months of conventional chemotherapy (using the drugs cisplatin or carboplatin) and are generally less responsive to subsequent treatments and have not responded as well to PARP inhibitors.

These results are better than those in trials using conventional ADHD drugs, such as Ritalin and Adderall, says Daryl Efron at Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Melbourne.

Conventional opioids activate both pathways, which causes constipation and slowed breathing and may induce an increased tolerance of drugs such as morphine.

Most conventional drugs function as inhibitors — they're just the right size and shape to jam themselves into some molecular cog in our cells.

Cell therapies are a growing area of interest for the treatment of a number of indications such as neurological, cardiovascular, and ophthalmological maladies that are refractory to other more conventional drug therapies.

Orders of magnitude more sensitive than conventional Raman microscopy, they allow mapping of 3D distributions of small molecules, such as metabolites and drugs, as well as tumor identification in tissues, which open many exciting new possibilities for biology and medicine.

We currently evaluate the therapeutic benefits as well as the toxicity of drug candidates in spheroids by means of conventional fluorescence microscopy as well as LSFM and many different biochemical and molecular biology - based assays (Ansari et al. 2013; Wenzel et al. 2014; Pampaloni & Stelzer 2010).

An emerging strategy in early drug discovery entails using fragments, i.e. molecules smaller than conventional drug candidates, as starting points for design of novel therapeutic compounds.

12/5/2007 Protein Found That May Provide Relief from Neuropathic Pain Neuropathic pain is caused by injury to the peripheral nerves in diseases such as HIV / AIDS, shingles, and cancer or in repetitive motion disorders and trauma, and does not respond well to conventional pain - relieving drugs.

One study that examined the risks of frequent NSAIDs proposed green tea as a possible alternative remedy to conventional anti-inflammatory drugs.

As my symptoms were increasing to the point of needing two emergency - room visits for GI bleeding within a week of starting at Parsley, I was becoming more and more frustrated that conventional medicine could offer me nothing more than drugs — such as gut biome - destroying antibiotics and immunosuppressives — that negatively affected my body's ability to heal itselAs my symptoms were increasing to the point of needing two emergency - room visits for GI bleeding within a week of starting at Parsley, I was becoming more and more frustrated that conventional medicine could offer me nothing more than drugs — such as gut biome - destroying antibiotics and immunosuppressives — that negatively affected my body's ability to heal itselas gut biome - destroying antibiotics and immunosuppressives — that negatively affected my body's ability to heal itself.

MONDAY, November 7, 2011 (Health.com)-- A class of injectable drugs used to treat autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis doesn't raise the risk of serious infection when compared with more conventional treatments, according to a new analysis in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

A 1984 study looked at the use of Fulvic / Humic acids in chronic bronchitis and found that these were as effective (or more so) than conventional drug therapies at alleviating symptoms.

Naturopathy has also been the subject of a fair amount of controversy over the years, with some researchers claiming that it was dangerous to believe in use of it as opposed to more «mainstream» or conventional pharmaceutical drugs.

A meta - analysis of literature related to the use of velvet antler products as an alternative to drugs provides credible evidence to support the claim that compounds in velvet antler may be significantly more effective than many conventional prescription and over-the-counter drugs for relief of the symptoms of osteoarthritis.

The primary treatment for LUTS, BPH and CP in conventional medicine involves the use of alpha - adrenergic antagonist drugs (such as Flomax) and 5 - alpha - reductase inhibitor drugs.

While conventional medicine turns to drug treatments, recent research points to poor gut health as the root of mental illness.

If this hadn't of have happened I'd still be a conventional medicine doc thinking the latest drugs out of the New England Journal of Medicine were the way to go as opposed to seeing the gospel of food and sleep and movement and stress reduction.

Many women going through intense hormonal fluctuations use bioidentical hormones as a gentle and natural alternative to the synthetic hormones found in conventional hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drugs, Premarin or Prempro.

Natural thyroid drugs contain natural forms of the thyroid hormones T4 and T3, as well as other co-factors, and some patients and practitioners find them more effective than the conventional hypothyroidism treatment, levothyroxine (a synthetic form of the T4 hormone.)

In conventional medicine, a condition must have progressed far enough to diagnose and treat with drugs or surgery, such as thyroid removal (which still doesn't help many patients).

1 - lack of relaxation 2 - devitalized food 3 - unfulfilling employment (dead - end jobs) 4 - dead - end relationships (romantic or not) 5 - surgery 6 - junk food 7 - trans fats and rancid fats 8 - financial stress 9 - sedentary lifestyle 10 - excessive exercise 11 - death of a loved one 12 - alcoholism 13 - smoking 14 - illicit drug use 15 - prescription drug use 16 - toxins 17 - poor eating habits 18 - marital stress 19 - repeated traumas 20 - workaholism 21 - nutritional deficiencies 22 - hormonal imbalances 23 - oral contraceptives 24 - stimulants 25 - counterproductive attitudes and beliefs 26 - conventional hormone replacement therapy 27 - non-prescription drugs 28 - psychological stress 29 - persistent fears 30 - emotional stress 31 - lack of sleep 32 - being in denial about feelings 33 - acute or chronic infection 34 - repeated stresses 35 - persistent negative stressors 36 - fun or enjoyment deprivation 37 - allergies 38 - caffeine 39 - white sugar and white flour products 40 - antacids 41 - artificial sweeteners and colors 42 - major life events — even if perceived consciously as «good» (e.g.: graduating high school, moving, etc..)

And yet conventional treatment for diabetes now includes tacking on yet another potentially deadly drug as early as possible... It is truly insane.

Their conventional doctor may label them as being depressed or anxious and prescribe a drug, after all, the test results appear to be fine, it must be in the patient's head.

And some of them are also just as effective, or even more effective, as conventional memory drugs.

Conventional therapies and sports injury treatments such as ice, heat, stretching, bracing, NSAIDs, and other drugs rarely benefit an athlete.

Part 1 will focus on the diagnosis, the ANA test, conventional drug treatments, stress and toxic exposure as being some prime causes, rheumatoid arthritis case study, three examples of auto - immune disease and toxic exposure from my clinic.

Therefore, herbal and other natural sleep aids are gaining popularity, as herbs commonly used for their sedative - hypnotic effects do not have the drawbacks of conventional drugs.

Although additional research into the most effective natural treatments for RA needs to be done, some of the treatments discussed on my page appear to be as effective as, and even better tolerated than conventional RA drug therapy.

The following reduction in rosacea symptoms was equally as impressive as the results from conventional rosacea drugs.

Conventional pain management relies on pharmacological applications such as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS), narcotics, and antidepressant pain modifiers, yet these approaches can build dependencies --- and potential hearing loss.

These explorations beyond the box of conventional medicine provided her with a direct and deeply profound understanding of the benefits proper nutrition, high quality vitamin, mineral and botanical formulas, massage, meditation, exercise such as yoga and qi gong, as well as chiropractic adjustments, acupuncture treatments, and psychotherapy and counseling as safe and effective drug - free therapies for restoring health.

Baker is grappling with his demons in the conventional music - biopic style: success, fame, drugs, sex, love and the fundamental battle to be understood as an artist.

Yorkville was a place where, potentially, you could develop a more discerning eye for understanding the production of culture and sometimes come to recognize the coincidence between mass cultural production and the regression of one's own intellect, as bikers, greasers, hippies, teenyboppers, and sometimes political organizers, congregated in the coffee shops and flop houses, or just hung out on the streets, all pretending that we were creating a new society free from the normative shackles of conventional morality and lifestyle but basically we were looking for drugs, sex and rock and roll and our twenty minutes of fame.

Conventional vets will often treat seizures and epilepsy with anticonvulsant drugs such as phenobarbitone or Mysoline.