Sentences with phrase «by exposure to the drug»

«If people have an addiction and their brain has been changed by exposure to drugs, the basic workings of the brain become different.

It might also evolve resistance by exposure to the drug.

Not exact matches

While there is no concrete proof that BPA is harmful to humans, some tests by the National Toxicology Program (NTP), the National Institutes of Health, as well as the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) have shown that there could be potential issues that could arise due to over exposure of this chemical.

They may have minor anxiety or low social skills but sometimes the exposure to new technology in which they're flooded with sexual images or sexual text stories, or the opportunity to be sexual in ways that they never could have imagined, sometimes the opportunity by itself can be addictive like we saw with crack cocaine many years ago, so people got addicted to crack cocaine who did not have a typical profile, just the exposure to the drug was enough to flood the brain and get people hooked in a very short period of time.

New labeling rules proposed by the FDA expand this information significantly, offering breastfeeding mothers a detailed explanation of a drug's risks and ways to minimize a nursing infant's exposure.

Michel Odent, in his review of research on the «primal period «(the time between conception and the first birthday), concludes that interference or dysfunction at this time affects the development of our capacity to love, which is particularly vulnerable around the time of birth, being connected hormonally to the oxytocin system.3 Research by Jacobsen4 5 and Raine6 among others, suggests that contemporary tragedies such as suicide, drug addiction and violent criminality may be linked to problems in the perinatal period such as exposure to drugs, birth complications and separation or rejection from the mother.

First, the epidural - exposed baby may have neurobehavioral abnormalities caused by drug exposure that are likely to be maximal in the hours following birth — a critical time for the initiation of breastfeeding.

Drug exposure to the nursing infant may be minimized by having the mother take the medication just after she has breastfed the infant or just before the infant is due to have a lengthy sleep period.

«This includes optimizing nutrition, taking prenatal vitamins as recommended by their obstetrician, avoiding exposure to unnecessary drugs and medications, and ensuring that their own vaccinations are up to date,» says Dr. Wang.

This is compared with the therapeutic dose of the drug, and the «rate of clearance» of the drug by the baby is also taken into account — the lower the level of clearance, the higher the baby's exposure to the drug.

A man wearing an EEG cap that measures brain activity triggered exposure to these fluorescent drugs simply by doing calculations in his head (PLoS, doi.org/bpwp).

In drug addiction — my field — rodents will self - administer and addict themselves to the same drugs that humans self - administer and addict themselves to, which makes it possible to identify the neural circuits in the brain, and the molecular changes within those circuits caused by drug exposure, that underlie states of addiction.

Microdosing also reduced the eye's exposure to the drug and preservative by 75 to 80 percent.

«We can now start to study how different tissue barriers are wounded in real time by infection, radiation, drug exposure or even malnutrition, and how and when they heal in response to new regenerative therapeutics.»

Relapses are the reason most treatment programs fail, he says, because a single, brief exposure to a disavowed drug ignites a compulsion in addicts more powerful than that engendered by continual use.

This can occur if a person's inner - ear hair cells are destroyed by exposure to loud noise, to some antibiotic drugs, or simply through old age.

«We wondered whether we could make a safer and more tolerable form of DON by enhancing its brain penetration and limiting its exposure to the rest of the body and, thus, toxicity,» says Barbara Slusher, Ph.D., professor of neurology, medicine, psychiatry, neuroscience and oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of Johns Hopkins Drug Discovery.

But by 12 days, the physiological changes required to extend lifespan were complete and lifelong exposure to the drug had no additional effect.

Cellular - level changes to a part of the brain's reward system induced by chronic exposure to the psychoactive component of marijuana may contribute to the drug's pleasurable and potentially addictive qualities, suggests a study in young mice published in JNeurosci.

Led by Bavari and Travis Warren, Ph.D., the USAMRIID team performed a series of studies involving a lethal challenge with Marburg virus in nonhuman primates to determine the efficacious dose and regimen of AVI - 7288, as well as to characterize the drug exposures in animals that produced efficacy.

«The data from these two Phase III trials conducted in Europe and in the U.S. support the effectiveness of this novel photo - protective drug, offering the patients in Europe — where the drug has been approved by the European Medicines Agency — the opportunity to perform their daily functions without the pain induced by sun exposure,» said Robert J. Desnick, PhD, MD, Principal Investigator of the U.S. Trials and Dean for Genetic and Genomic Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine.

As industry giants lose patent rights on big - money drugs such as Lipitor and Plavix, they are looking to offset lost revenues by cutting costs and lowering exposure to the risks and expenses of drug discovery and development.

Addiction is often characterized by a craving for more of the drug or behavior, increased physiological tolerance to exposure, and withdrawal symptoms in the absence of the stimulus.

Because the drug remains tethered to the DNA parcel, a body's exposure to the drug can be controlled by closing and opening the gate.

They also want to use their findings to further understand an individual's risk for developing an addiction, noting that addiction risk is influenced by a combination of molecular and neuronal mechanisms that influence the likelihood of progressing from initial drug exposure to repeated use.

New research suggests the bacteria that cause tuberculosis alter their metabolism to combat exposure to antimicrobials, and that these metabolic «escape pathways» might be neutralized by new drugs to shorten the troublesome duration of therapy.

«We found no important associations between exposure to NSAIDs, either by group or for most specific NSAID drugs, and risk of spontaneous abortion,» write Dr. Sharon Daniel and Prof. Amalia Levy, Department of Public Health, Ben - Gurion University of the Negev and Soroka Medical Center, with coauthors.

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By limiting the world's exposure to the drug, doctors can stave off resistance even longer — and save Teixobactin as a much - needed last resort for gram - positive infections.

The researchers also found that the sufferers of Type 2 diabetes improved their sensitivity to insulin by 40 percent after exposure to intermittent cold for 10 days, levels similar to diabetic drugs.

Exposure to amphetamines was established by 2 questions: 1 on the use of drugs for losing weight and a 2nd question on whether people often made use of Dexedrine or Benzedrine.

Therefore, increasing liver function by minimizing exposure to toxins such as alcohol, caffeine and over-the-counter drugs (think Tylenol) is important.

In general, the number and severity of adverse effects are related to the overall exposure, measured by length of therapy and blood drug concentration.

It seems to coincide that when fraudulent medical or nutritional dogma promoted by mainstream medicine or government nutritional institutions starts getting exposed in the alternative media, they both double down with the aid of mainstream media, especially if the result of that exposure is lowered sales of statin drugs and processed non-fat foods.

Symptoms can be minimized by optimizing the sleep environment, by strategic avoidance of and exposure to light, and also with drug and behavioral therapies.

Teachers can also take note of these risk factors for teen suicide, as listed by the CDC: a history of previous suicide attempts, depression, or other mental illness; a family history of suicide; alcohol or drug abuse; a stressful life event or loss; easy access to lethal methods; exposure to the suicidal behavior of others; and incarceration.

Camron's early childhood was plagued by neglect and exposure to domestic violence and drugs.

When the disease can be linked to exposure to specific allergens, such house dust mites, desensitization injections can be effective in some individuals when carried out over an extended time; however, most cases are not resolved by desensitization and require a combination of allergen avoidance and anti-inflammatory drugs.

Hearing loss can be caused by exposure to heavy metals, such as mercury or lead, or may occur after your pet takes certain medications, including chemotherapy drugs, diuretics or antibiotics.

Indiscriminant use of antibiotics accelerates these mutations by allowing bacteria to survive exposure to the drugs.

Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.

The New York Times reports how two new aviaries for vultures, brought to the brink of extinction by exposure to veterinary drugs, are being built, so that the ancient tradition of leaving corpses in so - called Towers of Silence to be picked apart by the giant scavenging birds can resume.

He has successfully handled cases involving brain injury, plane crashes, stock fraud, truck wrecks, deadly exposure to negligently manufactured drugs, intoxicated or drug impaired drivers who injure innocent citizens, negligent road construction and maintenance, negligent design or manufacture of machines, explosions and home fires, violation of DOT regulations regarding 18 wheelers, severe burns and scars, negligent installation of hot water heaters, wrongful denial of claims by insurance companies, sale of alcohol to minors by convenience stores, defective residential or commercial construction, heart attacks at work from overexertion, defective airbags, wrecks caused by trucks that exceeded size and weight limits, nursing home abuse, product liability, unrelenting pain from on - the - job injuries, and numerous other cases where the injuries were so severe that the person died or became totally disabled.

They are ready to help if you, or someone you love, has been killed or injured in a truck wreck, had bad side effects because of a dangerous prescription drug, harmed by a defective medical device like hip implants, or diagnosed with cancer as the result of exposure to asbestos.

When a person dies as a consequence of exposure to a defective drug, his or her family can file a survival claim to recover damages that otherwise might have been recovered by the decedent (the person actually harmed by the defective drug).

Soros opines that exposure to the criminal justice system is potentially more detrimental to a young person than marijuana itself, that enforcing marijuana laws costs taxpayers billions while benefiting only foreign drug kingpins, and that laws against marijuana, from their inception, have been motivated by racial prejudice.

Plaintiff May Sue Manufacturer of Name - Brand Prescription Drug for Injury Allegedly Caused by Different Company's Generic Drug, Indiana Injury Lawyer Blog, February 28, 2013 Federal Statute Preempts State Products Liability Lawsuit Over Asbestos Exposure, According to Supreme Court: Kurns v. Railroad Friction Products Corp., Indiana Injury Lawyer Blog, October 18, 2012

«No benefits will be paid due to Injury or death caused by, contributed to by or related to the following and / or their treatments and / or complications thereof: Sickness; Suicide or intentional self - inflicted Injury or poisoning; War, declared or undeclared; Acts of terrorism; While committing or attempting to commit a crime; Taking of illegal or non-prescribed drugs, or addiction or misuse of prescription drugs; Alcohol abuse or addiction, or being under the influence of alcohol, as defined by the vehicle code of the state or province in which the Accident has occurred; Mental or Nervous Disorders; Pre-Existing Conditions; Subjective Pain or other symptoms unless supported by objective medical findings; Pregnancy and pregnancy - related conditions including but not limited to fertility, pre-natal care, childbirth, miscarriage, abortion or postpartum conditions; Nuclear, biological or chemical exposure as a result of war, declared or undeclared or terrorism.»

Exposure to alcohol, contraband or drugs not prescribed by a physician or medical practitioner.

This course can be offered in either 2 or 4 hours and is designed for professionals interested in learning more about the effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol or other drugs, the short and long term concerns of parental substance use and abuse, and recommendations for supporting children and families affected by this issue.