Sentences with phrase «because effective drugs»

Men were more likely to do so, perhaps because effective drugs are available.

Not exact matches

Drugs that were effective at warding off infections decades ago are now less potent because the bacteria they were designed to kill have developed defence mechanisms.

That's because pharmaceutical companies go through the process of creating a treatment from beginning to end without any guarantee a drug will be effective and produce revenue.

This is because the drug was not expected to be effective in certain organs.

He says Mexican marijuana imports dropped by 40 percent «because they can't compete with the American quality and the American market... just two states stopping fighting the war on that drug, it has been 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 FDA has not approved these drugs for children under a year old because no studies have found them effective in that population.

Physicians may want to consider tailoring drugs based on a patient's BMI because a drug may not be as effective in obese or morbidly obese patients.

Two recent, late - stage clinical trials were stopped because nusinersen, developed by Ionis of Carlsbad, California, and now licensed to Biogen of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was so effective in restoring motor function in children and babies that it was deemed unethical to deny the drug to children in the placebo arms of the trials.

«For example, a non-blind trial of a new drug might conclude that it is way more effective than a placebo, when in fact the drug's true effect is rather modest, simply because the researchers» expectations biased the results.»

«But the virus is not stable; it always mutates — problematic because the virus can become resistant to effective drugs.»

Checkpoint inhibitors already produce unprecedented rates of long - term remission for a handful of hard - to - treat cancers, but their potential is even greater: Because such drugs modify the body's response to cancer, rather than the cancer itself, they could theoretically be effective against almost any kind of malignancy.

Detection of dementia at the earliest stages has become a worldwide priority, because drug treatments, prevention strategies and other interventions will likely be more effective very early in the disease process, before extensive brain damage has occurred.

Triple - negative cancers are so called because they do not express receptors for the hormones estrogen and progesterone, nor for HER2 (human epidermal growth factor 2), and hence patients with these cancers are not candidates for treatment with modern hormonal therapies or the highly effective HER2 - targeted drug Herceptin (trastuzumab).

Because it more effectively induces cancer cell apoptosis in p53 - deficient tumors, FL118 is especially effective against late - stage cancers, which usually lose functional p53 and are resistant to DNA - damage drugs.

While initially effective at treating the disease, the drugs fail to prevent relapse in nearly all patients because of residual cancer cells that escape therapy.

To make things worse, no antiviral drugs currently available have proven effective against it, and because scientists do not know where the virus resides between outbreaks, environmental control is impossible.

(5) This could be because the drugs are most effective 3 - 6 hours after symptoms begin and women are less likely than men to reach the hospital within this time period.

Many of these new drugs promise to be more effective because they target key pathways of cancer cells more specifically.

Drug - resistant TB, now present everywhere in the world, is hampering efforts to fight the disease because the usual drugs used to treat it are no longer effective.

This can be important because emerging evidence suggests that tiny proteins excreted with exosomes can drive reactions that may become major barriers to effective cancer drug delivery and treatment.»

Not only could the new process ease the manufacture of existing protein therapeutics — and thus drop their price — but it could also speed the search for new so - called glycoprotein drugs, because researchers could easily attach different sugars to screen for the most effective combination.

«Because there are currently no effective drugs for liver fibrosis, we believe our findings would open a new door for treatment,» says senior author Ronald M. Evans, a professor in Salk's Gene Expression Laboratory and lead researcher in the Institute's new Helmsley Center for Genomic Medicine.

Developing antimicrobial peptides into effective drugs has been a challenge in the past, partly because enzymes in the body can break them down.

Zinc finger enthusiasts believe it's worth attempting to overcome the additional hurdles of developing DNA - targeting drugs, because of the chance that the end result may be safer and more effective.

«IKKs are one of the most heavily sought after drug targets today, because pharmaceutical companies want safe and effective medications to treat the pain of arthritis, now that the safety of COX - 2 inhibitors, like Celebrex and Vioxx, have been called into question,» says Salk researcher Vinay Tergaonkar who was involved in the zebrafish study.

The early intervention strategy is most frequently used for drug testing in AD because drug candidates assayed in AD transgenic mice at the stage when pathology is already present are generally less effective [27 — 30].

This is a critical field of study because the current drug therapies to lower IOP often are minimally effective and have unpleasant side effects.

Companion diagnostics (CDx) are diagnostic tests required by regulatory authorities because they provide critical patient - specific information for physicians on whether the drug will be safe and effective.

The once - daily dose is effective in dilating bronchial airways for 24 hours, because the receptor closes around and locks onto the drug, trapping it in place, he found.

Because LINGO1 has be shown to have a negative impact on neuronal development and survival, inibiting it with a small molecule drug may provide an effective approach for developing a treatment for the severe forms of essential tremor.

Several targeted drugs (e.g., imatinib [Gleevec ®], dasatinib [Sprycel ®]-RRB- are effective for treating CML because they attack cells with the Philadelphia chromosome, the genetic abnormality that is the hallmark of this type of leukemia.

Because the underlying molecular mechanisms are unclear, there are currently no effective treatments for affected children of epileptic mothers who took antiepileptic drugs during pregnancy.

Because SLC6A14 is essential for tumour growth yet dispensable for normal development and tissue maintenance, small molecules that block amino acid import through this transporter could be effective and selective anti-cancer agents, particularly as components of rational drug combinations.

Dimethyl fumarate is a drug that is known to be effective against a variety of autoimmune diseases because of its anti-inflammatory properties.

Because viruses have evolved such effective methods for finding their target and utilizing the host cells» own molecular machinery, scientists are modifying viruses into long - lasting therapeutic vehicles that can deliver drugs to specific cells or tissues or selectively target and destroy tumors.

That's a problem, because it makes it more difficult for women to get the drug in time so it's still effective at preventing pregnancy.

Studies have shown that allicin can be just as effective as some hypertension drugs, lower bad cholesterol, and prevent neural degeneration because of its antioxidants.

Although no cure or effective treatment for Alzheimer's disease exists, a correct diagnosis is essential because some drugs can delay its progress and help preserve quality of life for as long as possible.

The ingredients can be very effective, but because they are natural they are not as reliable as a drug.

This is one skin treatment you most certainly will want to try with psoriasis because it is cheap, effective and drug - free.

Interestingly, Phenylalanine is used in psychotropic drugs such as morphine, codeine, papaverine, and even mescaline because it is such an effective pain reliever.

The two main reasons so many have stopped taking these kinds of drugs is because they were not that effective, or created strong side - effects like increasing risk of infections.

Usually this is because they missed a dose or used other medications — including anti-seizure drugs, antibiotics, antidepressants or some HIV drugs — that can make the contraceptive less effective, Charlton said.

But even if data show an NSAID is safe and effective in people, the drug may not be safe and effective in dogs because the drug may:

Second, don't give an effective drug a bad review just because YOUR dog had an allergic reaction to it.

Several groups are working to bring these drugs into the clinic, but the process is slow because testing must be done in a careful, deliberate way to ensure the compounds are safe and effective.

While Zonisamide appears to be relatively safe for dogs, is effective in controlling seizures, and is well - tolerated, many veterinarians are still concerned that we may not know the entire range of side effects possible with the drug because its use has been somewhat limited so far.

As with all drugs or pharmaceutical products, heartworm preventives should be used before the expiration date on the package, because it is impossible to predict if it will be effective or safe.

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as carprofen can also be effective, but these drugs should never be used concurrently with glucocorticoid drugs because of potential gastrointestinal damage.