Sentences with phrase «as effective a drug»

But successful demonstration of SLC6A14 as an effective drug target for treatment of selective subtypes of cancer would provide new hope even for patients with other types of cancers.

It has become clear that after keeping this parasite at bay with ivermectin, it is no longer as effective a drug as it once was.

Not exact matches

A small 2006 study found ginkgo was as effective as the drug donepezil for boosting attention and memory in people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's.

So many companies have developed such increasingly effective medicines, such as those that treat more hep C strains with far shorter treatment regimens, that Gilead — a pioneer in the field with Sovaldi and Harvoni — is projecting $ 3.5 billion to $ 4 billion in U.S. sales from these kinds of drugs in 2018, a dramatic drop from nearly $ 13 billion in 2015.

But a nonprofit is making its own hepatitis C combination medication that it says is just as effective as those created by for - profit drug giants.

Taking this drug daily has shown to offer more than 90 % (and as much as 99 %) effective protection against HIV in clinical trials, and certain New Zealand residents will soon be able to get a three - month supply for just $ 5 (oh, and that's five New Zealand dollars, which is about $ 3.64 in U.S. money).

Instead of giving a cancer patient a cocktail of 15 drugs as is done now, doctors could print 15 tumours from a biopsy and determine which one is most effective before issuing a prescription to the patient.

Solution migration: Increasingly, we're seeing a quick and effective technology solution (like, say, precision drug dosing cartridges) in one industry migrate rapidly to other industries (like self - service food and beverage providers) with just as much success and impact.

Biosimilars are copies of original drugs that are supposed to be as effective but cheaper.

More common and larger - scale cyber-attacks (from Sony pictures to Spanish renewable energy companies) are yet another example of this unprecedented «communication» flow; just as growth of the dark web has allowed for more effective connections in illegal activities — drug trade, human trafficking, and the like.

Ionis Pharmaceuticals» mission is to develop safe and effective RNA - targeting drugs for both rare and more prevalent diseases and providing those drugs to the broadest group of patients as quickly as possible.

Regulatory authorities in the U.S. and Europe believe that real - world data can make the drug - development process more efficient and cost - effective, as well as help better inform patients and physicians about the uses of new products.

InvivoSciences will continue to contribute to the improvement of human health by establishing a new paradigm for discovering drugs that focus on diseases with limited treatment options such as cardiac fibrosis, scleroderma, and lupus in a time - effective manner while remaining safe and cost effective.»

For instance, most common adult solid tumors that are not cured by surgical removal are resistant to chemotherapy or radiation control, yet drug therapy is frequently offered as a «possibly effective» treatment because both patient and physician want to believe it so.

The lavender pills have been studied to be more effective than pharmaceutical anti-anxiety drugs and as a bonus they help you sleep!

A 2005 study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that consuming almonds as part of a heart - healthy diet can be just as effective at lowering LDL «bad» cholesterol levels as first generation statin drugs.

Even though I'm a bit of a wimp most of the time, other comfort measures can be as effective as drugs.

It can be just as effective as drugs or harsh ointments, but completely safe without side effects.

This all - natural remedy can be just as effective as drugs and the harsh ointments that many parents have used over the years.

The recent Pink Slime videos serve both as a symbol of all that's wrong with our approach to public school and the castration of the Food and Drug Administration that used to be an effective watch dog.

While drug treatments are potentially dangerous and not highly effective for symptoms ascribed to colic or GER, one partial exception may be the older type of acid - reducing drugs such as Zantac, still prescribed today.

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«As such, the conventions recognize that, to be truly effective, a State's response to offences by drug abusers must address both the offences and the abuse of drugs (the underlying cause).»

DrugScope also welcomed the Council's decision that community orders should be considered as a realistic alternative to prison for drug dependent individuals, and questioned once again whether using the criminal justice system to respond to offences of drug possession was «the most effective way to reduce drug - related harms both to individuals and the wider community.»

In his words, «The wide acceptance of NYSC Scheme both at the national and international levels is borne out by the noteworthy contribution of Corps members to such exercises as the electoral process, the effective nationwide campaign against HIV / AIDs, Road accidents, Drug Abuse, Human Trafficking, Corruption, Illiteracy and the implementation of various aspects of the SDGs programme.

With vast differences in the physiology of different species and poorly conducted experiments, it comes as no surprise that 92 % of all drugs that are shown to be safe and effective in animal tests prove to be ineffective or even dangerous to humans.

As drug delivery via the lungs is generally more effective than some other methods, says Peace, vaping could make «already dangerous drugs even more dangerous».

For instance, a slow - release version of the drug appears to be just as effective, even though only small amounts of it ever reach the liver.

As a result, Soviet pharmaceutical companies churned out billions of units of questionable drugs that were only partially effective at normal dosages, weakening bacteria but not killing them outright — an environment perfect for spurring antibiotic resistance.

When Gupta's team added salinomycin to cultured human breast - cancer cells, it was about 100 times as effective at killing the cancer stem cells as popular anti-cancer drug, paclitaxel.

«In the 1950's, the Brazilian health agencies added chloroquine into cooking salt and distributed it to the population in endemic areas as an effective way of spreading the inexpensive anti-malarial drug as a prophylactic on a wide scale.

With new research — such as Cutrer's theory about the nature of aura — more possibilities for tailoring effective drugs have emerged.

Dr. McCabe said nanoparticles are a leading - edge technology also being studied for delivery of drugs for other conditions, such as cancer, heart disease, and bacterial infections, in order to target specific cells to reduce toxicity and side effects of those medications and to make them more effective.

«Furthermore, risk of ischaemic heart disease can be reduced substantially by other lifestyle changes, as well as by drugs such as statins shown to be effective in primary prevention.»

The authors — Martin Llewelyn, a professor of infectious diseases at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, and nine British colleagues — point to recent studies that have shown shorter courses of certain drug classes such as quinolones are as effective as the longer courses that have been recommended in the past.

Ubogu says the findings are very exciting, as they provide knowledge of leukocyte trafficking in human nerves, but more work needs to be done in affected patients to develop an effective drug.

Health officials around the world had assumed the drug was as effective as claimed and recommended Tamiflu for patients during the recent h1n1, or swine flu, pandemic.

University of Melbourne Professor, Leann Tilley, an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow at the Bio21 Institute, tested the new drug in red blood cells infected with parasites and found that it was as effective at killing the artemisinin resistant parasites as it was for the sensitive parasites.

Other studies suggest that nicotine may be as effective at enhancing attention as methylphenidate (Ritalin) and the wakefulness - promoting drug modafinil (Provigil).

And DSHEA codified a loose arrangement: Under the law, as FDA notes on its website, «unlike drug products that must be proven safe and effective for their intended use before marketing, there are no provisions in the law for FDA to «approve» dietary supplements... before they reach the consumer.»

As a result, infectious disease experts currently try to find a balance between making sure drugs are effective at knocking out harmful bacteria while keeping the treatment duration to the bare minimum required to stamp out an infection.

Although there is no cure for SMA currently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has listed SMA as the neurological disease closest to finding a cure, due in part to effective drugs like the one developed in Lorson's lab.

Instead migraine sufferers may be given other, less effective drugs such as opioid narcotics.

He pointed to the sudden rise in share prices for pharmaceutical firms working on Ebola vaccines as one type of economic spur to ensure that medicines are there in an emergency, along with WHO's capacity to «prequalify» drugs as safe and effective so that they can be sold more cheaply and widely.

«If we could load these virus shells with a different cargo, say a drug, and target it to a particular place in the body, such as a tumor, it could then deliver the drug to just that specific location, making the drug more effective, or reducing side effects,» Lawrence said.

The Freiburg team demonstrated that the drugs sorafenib and axitinib, which are currently approved only for kidney and liver cancer, are effective in CML model systems as well.

Breathing exercises as effective as prescription drugs?

«Using this technology, the study is the first to discover the critical role of astroglial cells in Down syndrome as well as identify a promising pathway for exploring how a drug such as minocycline may offer an effective way to help treat it.»

Earlier this month, a network of researchers supported by the National Eye Institute (NEI) found that the drug Lucentis (ranibizumab) can be highly effective for treating proliferative diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that can occur as a complication of diabetes.

When you get to cancers like breast, prostate and kidney, which have smaller numbers of mutations, the drugs aren't quite as effective.