Sentences with phrase «at combatting drug»

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We are at the mercy of Mother Nature until we find a drug and vaccine to combat this virus.

Among her colleagues and competitors is a team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that also is working on an implantable device to deliver drugs directly to a tumor; a group at the University of Pennsylvania that is looking at using specialized antibodies to combat the disease; and a team of German researchers who are experimenting with specialized peptides.

«We truly despise the carrot - and - stick approach,» Jia said in a veiled swipe at Trump's threats to cut aid or impose tariffs on Latin American nations that do not do more to further efforts to create more US jobs and combat drug trafficking.

* CVS HEALTH EXPANDS SAFE DRUG DISPOSAL AT CVS PHARMACY LOCATIONS IN WEST VIRGINIA TO HELP COMBAT OPIOID ABUSE Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:

In the ongoing effort to combat the growing use of heroin across Long Island, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone on Monday announced a new strategy aimed at making a special drug more accessible to addicts at treatment centers and county facilities — though experts warn it's no panacea.

At 11 a.m., Assemblyman Michael Cusick, Sen. Andrew Lanza, Staten Island DA Michael McMahon, and representatives from the NYPD, Delco Drugs, and YMCA Counseling Services announce the donation of 10,000 drug deactivation pouches to combat the ongoing heroin and opioid abuse epidemic, Delco Drugs, 3833 Richmond Ave., Staten Island.

Also at 1:30 p.m., AG Eric Schneiderman, joined by Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster and other local officials, will discuss steps his office is taking with local officials to combat the use of designer drugs, Mount St. Mary's Neighborhood Health Center, 3101 9th St., Niagara Falls.

Also at 1 p.m., Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney joins Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler, local police chiefs and community leaders to call for passage of Maloney's legislation to combat the opioid and heroin epidemic and stop mass incarceration of abusers and low - level drug offenders, Orange County District Attorney's office, 40 Matthews St., Goshen.

In an effort to combat «spice» sales, which have led to nearly 700 emergency room visits at three Bronx hospitals in recent months, Senator Klein also introduced new legislation to strengthen criminal and civil penalties to keep ahead of the synthetic drug trade.

Walsh also said he would look at what other communities are doing to combat opioid and drug problems in their cities.

Republicans in the state Senate huddled for hours in private at the Capitol Thursday afternoon, emerging to say little, other than that a tax on prescription drug manufacturers in order to combat the opioid epidemic remains on the negotiating table.

Among their priorities: local funding support to combat opioid drug addiction, state lobbying for tougher laws against drug dealers, greater education and outreach regarding drug addiction and prevention, and better assessment tools for health professionals and first responders to help those at risk of becoming addicts and those in danger of repeat overdoses.

-- we could «identify novel drugs able to combat age - related diseases in completely new ways and thereby shorten the period of chronic illness experienced at the end of life.»

Drugs that clamp onto a pathogen's vital enzymes when they are at their most reactive can combat a range of infections

«To treat a leading cause of osteoporosis, surgery is better than widely used medications: Using drugs to combat hyperparathyroidism is worse than doing nothing at all.»

The need for new drug compounds that can combat skeletal dysplasia has led the Noriyuki Tsumaki group at CiRA, Kyoto University, to consider iPS cell technology.

«This study reveals new pathways in the earliest stages of ALS - FTD and opens the way for developing new classes of drugs to combat this dreadful disease,» said Justin Fallon, a professor of neuroscience at Brown and researcher at the Brown Institute for Brain Science and one of the study authors.

«This study reveals new pathways in the earliest stages of ALS - FTD and opens the way for developing new classes of drugs to combat this dreadful disease,» says study author Justin Fallon, PhD, a professor of medical science and of psychiatry and human behavior, and a researcher at the Brown Institute for Brain Science.

PULLMAN, Wash. — A WSU research team was awarded the TechConnect Defense Innovation Award at this year's Defense Innovation Technology Acceleration Challenges summit for their invention of an electrochemical scaffold to combat drug - resistant bacterial wound infections

Using the drug aldesleukin (recombinant interleukin - 2), presently administered in high doses to combat kidney tumours and skin cancers, researchers at the University of Cambridge hope to tailor its dosage to modulate the immune response in type 1 diabetes.

Drugging the autophagy pathway to combat cancer has been tried before, but the only drugs that currently block cell recycling work by targeting the cell organelle known as the lysosome, which functions at the final stage of autophagy.

Both the ovarian and prostate cancer trials could change clinical practice, with more women taking the drug bevacizumab (Avastin) to combat the disease in its advanced stages and more men getting radiation therapy for locally advanced prostate cancer, according to researchers who presented the findings Sunday at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago.

Acne treatment drugs commonly contain at least one antioxidant to combat free radical damage of the skin.

«Getting students engaged with learning is a top priority to combat rising issues with drug abuse, school dropouts, and many other issues,» said Gabriel Enrique Diago Méndez, director of technology and innovation at Gimnasio Los Caobos and a conference organizer.

There are a number of measures that people can take in order to combat «adverse drug events» — at least when taking medications outside a hospital setting:

It also faced questions over the logic of cutting $ 8 million from drug treatment and prevention programs at the same time as it was establishing a national taskforce to combat the growing impact of the drug ice.