Sentences with phrase «class of drugs also»

This is a relatively new class of drugs also including Farxiga, Jardiance, Glyxambi, and Xigduo XR.

Not exact matches

A pharmacologist by training, I also knew that the bisphosphonates — a class of drugs developed for osteoporosis sufferers — were then being tested on OI patients.

The Cabinet Office minister and Tory policy architect had also dismissed proposals to foster a new class of black entrepreneurs, saying they would simply set up in the «disco and drug trade».

The report also recommended the re-classification of cannabis to a class C drug.

-- The budget would also allow the state's health commissioner to negotiate rebates directly with pharmaceutical companies for certain kinds of drugs, including HIV / AIDS drugs and Hepatitis C drug classes.

Across the aisle, Assemblyman Billy Jones (D - Chateaugay), who took office earlier this month, said he liked the middle class tax cut and increased education aid, and also hailed the governor's proposals to build on fighting the opiate epidemic, including the creation of drug recovery «high schools» and crisis treatment centers alongside deeper insurance reforms.

(GlaxoSmithKline has decided to stop marketing ezogabine but other existing drugs that also operate by tweaking potassium channels in brain cells — or a wholly new class of compounds — could serve in its place.)

The researchers, however, also found that it may be possible to mitigate these effects with the use of an experimental class of drugs that can block stress.

They have also made antimicrobial peptides, which scientists are exploring as a possible new class of antibiotic drugs.

For some years now, a new class of drugs called antibody - drug conjugates (ADCs) have been used, which work in two ways: they consist of an antibody that binds selectively to the tumor cell receptor and interrupts the signal to propagate; they also act as a transport vehicle for a chemical substance that enters the cancer cells with the antibody and triggers their death.

Various companies are also testing a class of drugs that target both IGF - 1R and the insulin receptor.

The rationale for using spironolactone - an inexpensive, generic, medication - stems from the pioneering research of Bertram Pitt, MD, University of Michigan School of Medicine, who showed the benefit of this class of drugs in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction, and who also served as chair of the TOPCAT Steering Committee.

Much like BMS, Celgene also made a big gamble about a decade ago when it developed a class of immune - modulating drugs that included the infamous teratogen thalidomide.

The agency was also called to testify before Congress about its inaction regarding side effects of the antibiotic Ketek and a widely used class of anemia drugs.

The determination of each efficacy level was also based on the rigor and quantity of published studies on the drug class: to be in Level A, for example, a class of drugs must have been supported by at least two «Class I» studies — well - designed, double - blind, randomized, placebo - controlled clinical trclass: to be in Level A, for example, a class of drugs must have been supported by at least two «Class I» studies — well - designed, double - blind, randomized, placebo - controlled clinical trclass of drugs must have been supported by at least two «Class I» studies — well - designed, double - blind, randomized, placebo - controlled clinical trClass I» studies — well - designed, double - blind, randomized, placebo - controlled clinical trials.

Ledipasvir belongs to a promising new class of DAA drugs that work by blocking the NS5A protein, which the hepatitis C virus also needs to replicate.

He notes, however, that in the wake of the criminalization of first - generation cathinone derivatives, new members of this drug class are being invented that will also require study.

Sirolimus belongs to the rapamycin class of drugs that also includes everolimus.

Vitamin B6 has been shown to have a small effect on hangover in scientific studies, as have prostaglandin inhibitors, a class of drugs that includes aspirin and ibuprofen; for optimum effectiveness these should be taken while you are drinking, not the next morning, though they can also help the morning after.

There are already three classes of antiobesity drugs: adrenergic agents, which boost catecholamine levels to reduce appetite and enhance the sensation of being full; a combination adrenergic and serotonergic system that also inhibits serotonin reuptake; and lipase binders, which inhibit the body's ability to absorb fat.

A new class of biologic drugs came onto the market in Canada last year, and while more effective for treating high - cholesterol, they are also more expensive.

The resulting «map» of gene - drug interactions allowed the researchers to accurately predict the responses of multiple human cancer cell lines to different chemotherapy agents based on the cell lines» genetic profiles and also revealed new genetic factors that appear to determine the response of breast and ovarian tumor cells to common classes of chemotherapy treatment.

Monk also said that Gpr56 belongs to a large class of cell receptors that are common targets for many commercially available drugs, making the protein attractive for further research.

Less than a decade after a powerful gene - silencing method — RNA interference, or just RNAi — was discovered, the field's pioneers have not only won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine but have also helped launch an entirely new class of drugs into human clinical trials.

It also showed that the public cost of expanding public coverage for high - cost drugs — such as treatments for cancer and rheumatoid arthritis — would be modest and, under most plausible scenarios, would be offset by savings achieved in relatively common drug classes — like treatments for high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

Medical options also have improved substantially, with the availability in recent years of new classes of diabetes drugs such as GLP - 1 (glucagon - like peptide - 1) receptor agonists and SGLT2 (sodium - glucose co-transporter-2) inhibitors.

More recently, strains of tuberculosis have emerged that are resistant not only to front - line antibiotics, but also to one or more drugs within each of the two most important classes of second - line drugs — broad - spectrum antibiotics called fluoroquinolones, and injectable agents (amikacin, capreomycin and kanamycin).

In the paper, the researchers also described that single - cell phosphoproteomics could be used to study how melanoma cells develop resistance to a class of drugs called BRAF inhibitors.

Focusing on gastric cancer (GC), the third leading cause of cancer death worldwide, the team's findings may also prove applicable to other major cancers with potential implications for how cancers might be better treated with immunotherapy, one of the most promising classes of anti-cancer drugs today.

Tu also received numerous awards nationally which include «Award for Progress in Anti-malarial Research Achieved by Project 523 Scientific Team» honored by China National Congress of Science and Technology (1978); «National Scientific Discovery Award» for Anti-malaria Drug - Qinghaosu by the China Ministry of Science and Technology (1979); «Invention Award» (as the first inventor) by China National Congress for Awards in Science and Technology (1982); «Award of Young and Middle - aged Experts with Outstanding Contribution» by the Chinese Government (1984); «The Top Honorary Award» by China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (1992); «The Top Ten National Achievements for Progress in Science and Technology» by China National Committee of Science and Technology (1992); «First - Class Award of National Achievements in Science and Technology» by China National Award Committee for Advances in Science and Technology (1992); «National Model» by China State Council (1995); «Award for Outstanding Achievement in Traditional Chinese Medicine» by Guangzhou Zhongjing Award Foundation for Traditional Chinese Medicine (1995); «Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award» by Qiu Shi Science and Technologies Foundation of Hong Kong (1996); «Top Ten Health Achievements in New China» by China Ministry of Health (1997); «Female Inventor of the New Century» by China National Bureau of Intellectual Property (2002); «Golden Medal of the 14th National Invention Exhibition» by China National Bureau of Intellectual Property (2003); «Award for Development of Chinese Materia Medica» by Cyrus Chung Ying Tang Foundation, (2009).

PULLMAN, Wash. — A class of drugs used to treat parasitic infections such as malaria may also be useful in treating cancers and immune - related diseases, a new WSU - led study has found.

The discovery builds on research showing that a promising class of new drugs for BRCA2 linked breast cancers — known as PARP inhibitors ** — may also be effective in men who have developed prostate cancer due to a BRCA2 alteration.

Concerns have been raised about the safety of antipsychotics, but concomitant use of multiple psychotropic drug classes (psychotropic polypharmacy) may also pose a risk for patients.

Furthermore, he demonstrated that a class of drugs often used in the treatment of diabetes also reduces the harmful effects of white fat cells on bones.

(Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - Toronto)- A pilot study of a class of drugs used to treat hepatitis and some forms of multiple sclerosis has been shown for the first time to ease symptoms of Ebola patients, while also increasing their survival.

The study also showed that, in contrast to several cancer drugs that have been documented to cause cardiac toxicity, BRD4 inhibitors may be a class of anti-cancer therapeutics that has protective effects in the human heart.

eFFECTOR is pioneering a new class of small molecule drugs that act by selectively regulating translation, also known as protein synthesis.

This class of medications also includes older antihistamines like chlorpheniramine (Chlor - Trimeton) and «antimuscarinic» drugs for bladder control, such as oxybutynin (Ditropan).

«We should look also at older drugs that may have been discarded, and perhaps work more to understand the mechanism of action of acetaminophen to develop a new, more effective and less toxic drug of the same class, or develop new classes of painkillers,» Moore suggested.

Hot flashes are common with AIs, a class of drugs that also includes Aromasin and Femara and that women generally stay on for up to five years.

«This is going to open up a new opportunity for patients, and also for further research,» said Dr. Edith Perez, chairwoman of the breast cancer clinic at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla. «It has some limitations in that it was done only in premenopausal women, but it is consistent with other studies that have been reported with other drugs in that same class.»

A darkly comic indictment of Britain's upper class, Patrick Melrose, which also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh and Blythe Danner, follows its protagonist from age five, when he is abused by his father (played by Hugo Weaving) in a country house in Provence, through his young adulthood, when he becomes a heroin addict in New York and London, to his recovery from drugs and transition to fatherhood.

Bigger Than Life (Criterion) Ostensibly a drama about prescription drug misuse and abuse and drawn from an article in The New Yorker, this portrait of a grade - school teacher and middle class father (played by James Mason, who also produced and helped develop the project) is as much about adult male masculinity and responsibility as a husband and father, and the pressure on him to live up to the ideal, as Rebel Without a Cause is about the emotional realities of being an American teenager.

But it is also a remarkably nuanced novel whose currents run much deeper, delving into the minds of four characters: Aguilar, a husband passionately in love with his wife and determined to rescue her from insanity: Agustina, a beautiful woman from an upper - class Colombian family who is caught in the throes of madness; Midas, a drug - trafficker and money - launderer, who is Agustina's former lover; and Nicolás, Agustina's grandfather.

Benazepril, a blood pressure medication belonging to a class of drugs known as ACE inhibitors, may also be given to dogs with kidney disease, as it helps with kidney failure and conditions where excess protein is being excreted through the dog's kidneys into the urine.

Veterinarians have also used other prescription drugs of this class, including Tramadol and Torbutrol to manage pain in cats.

Mario also represents individuals on the civil side in the following types of cases: class actions, social security disability, workers compensation, personal injury including traumatic injury, defective products including defective drugs, nursing home neglect, and predatory lending.

A PSNI spokesman also revealed that the search was «in connection with the arrest of a 30 - year - old man in the Ladybrook area of west Belfast on suspicion of possession of Class A drugs», also on Wednesday.