Sentences with phrase «class of drugs for»

Node Smith, ND A recent study has found a link between the use of Proton - pump inhibitors (PPIs) and pneumonia in the elderly.1 PPIs are a commonly used class of drugs for the treatment of heartburn and stomach ulcers.

The best - known class of drugs for curbing heartburn are the antacids — , think Tums, Rolaids, and Mylanta.

A new class of drugs for blood cancers such as leukemia and multiple myeloma is showing promise.

Clinical trials with the drugs to date have shown that nearly half of patients with lung cancers eventually develop resistance to this class of drugs for reasons that have been unclear.

«This study is the first step in a potential drug development for a new class of drugs for osteoarthritis, although there are a number of hurdles we have to go through — necessarily so — before it gets nearer patients.

In the beginning of the century, the introduction of a new class of drugs for psoriasis, biologics, transformed the treatment of moderate - to - severe psoriasis by providing better skin clearance rates, low toxicity, and improved quality - of - life.

The cannabinoids in CBD work so well for pain that scientists are considering it as a new class of drug for the treatment of chronic pain.

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In particular, the complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period, defendants made materially false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that (1) the trials for GED - 0301 suffered from fatal design defects, such that GED - 0301 had failed to demonstrate meaningful clinical efficacy; (2) the growth of Otezla sales had dramatically slowed during Celgene's third fiscal quarter of 2017; and (3) the clinical and nonclinical pharmacology data in Celgene's new drug application («NDA») for Ozanimod were insufficient to permit a complete review by the FDA, which resulted in the FDA issuing a refusal to file letter to Celgene regarding the NDA.

or, more radically, for posting their genetic data to an anonymized, shared research database that might be used to identify those at risk for certain diseases or to identify those who respond better to specific classes of drugs, from beta blockers to cancer medicines.

In a 564 - person trial, patients whose ovarian cancer recurred (and who had already started treatment with chemotherapy) given Rubraca, part of a new class of cancer drugs called «PARP» inhibitors, lived, on median, for double the amount of time without their disease getting even worse compared with those given a placebo.

The ongoing American Heart Association (AHA) meeting in New Orleans is producing a deluge of data — including some promising prospects for a class of next - generation cholesterol drugs that have been slow to take off so far in the U.S. So - called PCSK9 inhibitors have shown tremendous efficacy in lowering LDL - C, or «bad» cholesterol.

Earlier this month, the FDA approved two other treatments for multiple myeloma, including another kind of monoclonal antibody drug (the same class of drug that elotuzumab is in).

While high price tags are common for rare disease drugs, Emflaza is part of a class of drugs called corticosteroids that are used for DMD in other parts of the world.

Its tailored, world - class services that reduce overall pharmacy costs, reduce avoidable drug impacted medical costs, and optimize specialty drug spend while improving patient quality of life are for all plan sponsors — health plans, accountable care organizations (ACOs), exchanges, state Medicaid programs, and employer groups.

Cambridge, MA — February 6, 2017 — Aura Biosciences, a biotechnology company developing a new class of therapies to target and selectively destroy cancer cells using viral nanoparticle conjugates, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the investigational new drug application (IND) for the company's lead program, light - activated AU - 011 in ocular melanoma (Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the investigational new drug application (IND) for the company's lead program, light - activated AU - 011 in ocular melanoma (drug application (IND) for the company's lead program, light - activated AU - 011 in ocular melanoma (OM).

One of the few negatives on an otherwise fairly positive day of trading was the 5 % decline of Reckitt Benckiser, producers of a drug used to help get drug users off of Heroin called Suboxone, which acts as a replacement for the Class A. Reckitt's patent for Suboxone is due to expire in the relatively near future, so they have been trying to push doctors and other pharmaceutical vendors towards their film version of the drug, which is still under patent and will be for quite some time.

(Reuters)- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc's RNAi - based drug that targets a rare genetic disease met the main goal of a key study, in a breakthrough for the new class of medicines that works by blocking disease - causing proteins.

Hundreds of Christian leaders signed a letter sent Wednesday to Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders voicing support for a bill that would expand rehabilitation programs for prisoners suffering from drug or sexual addiction, grant job training and anger management classes to inmates, and expand risk assessment programs to match prisoners with programs that could help them.

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.

If I am looking (btw, as a psychologist) for factors that may predict a QB I don't want, I am looking for (not necessarily in this order): his athletic skills, his percentage completions, his arm, (basically QB tangibles) and then (maybe) the kinds of things that DO predict trouble later on, e.g. legal violations, drug use, steroid use, assaults, mistreatment of men and women, cheating in college, failure to attend meetings, classes, and practice, flagrant defiance of coaches» directions.

We did the classes, we sat through hours of instruction on how to care for drug exposed babies, the problems that come with littles who have been traumatized more times than most of will experience in a lifetime.

We never did get to go the drug - free route with our son, but having my husband sit in on childbirth classes (and just the general rundowns of what to expect when you have your first kiddo) was essential for us.

Some classes are taught with a particular ideology in mind (for example, the aim of the Bradley Method is to have a drug - free, vaginal birth).

I had taken childbirth classes in the Bradley Method to prepare for a drug - free birth, during which we read about the many possible dangers to the baby of drugs during labor.

The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, as amended by the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, provides powers for enforcement agencies to deal with illicit manufacturers, suppliers and importers of temporary class dDrugs Act 1971, as amended by the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, provides powers for enforcement agencies to deal with illicit manufacturers, suppliers and importers of temporary class drugsdrugs.

The act created the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, which became responsible for distinguishing three separate classes of controlled substances, referred to as Class A, Class B and Class C dDrugs, which became responsible for distinguishing three separate classes of controlled substances, referred to as Class A, Class B and Class C drugsdrugs.

PRESS RELEASE FROM SENATOR CARLUCCI Senator David Carlucci (D - Rockland / Westchester), chairman of the Senate Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Committee, announced that prescriber prevails protections have been restored for atypical antipsychotic drugs and drug classes within Medicaid fee for services in the final Health Budget.

MPs on the science and technology committee had called for the ABC system of classification to be scrapped, saying decisions on how to class drugs such as cannabis and ecstasy were taken on a «disconcertingly ad hoc» basis.

The man appointed head of the advisory council for the misuse of drugs once called for ecstasy to be downgraded to a class B drug, politics.co.uk can exclusively reveal.

The following headlines splashed across the Mail: «The price of going soft on cannabis: Labour's experiment «pushed up hard drug use and crime», and the Telegraph: «Cannabis use soared by a quarter after Class C downgrade, study finds», and» «Softly softly» cannabis scheme drove up hospital admissions for hard drugs, study».

The government's decision in 2008 to reclassify cannabis as a Class B drug was highly controversial, not least because it rejected the findings of a review by the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs carried out at the request of the Prime Minister.

-- 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.

Senator David Carlucci (D - Rockland / Westchester), chairman of the Senate Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Committee, announced that prescriber prevails protections have been restored for atypical antipsychotic drugs and drug classes within Medicaid fee for services in the final Health Budget.

Peter Atadja, a Ghanaian Drug Research and Development Scientist has led a team of researchers from Novartis Institute for Biochemical Research to develop Panobinostat (LBH - 589), an experimental drug for the treatment of cancers.LBH589 is a potent oral pan-inhibitor of class I, II, and IV histone (and non-histone) deacetylase enzymes (HDACs / DADrug Research and Development Scientist has led a team of researchers from Novartis Institute for Biochemical Research to develop Panobinostat (LBH - 589), an experimental drug for the treatment of cancers.LBH589 is a potent oral pan-inhibitor of class I, II, and IV histone (and non-histone) deacetylase enzymes (HDACs / DAdrug for the treatment of cancers.LBH589 is a potent oral pan-inhibitor of class I, II, and IV histone (and non-histone) deacetylase enzymes (HDACs / DACs).

To do so, he sat down with The Merck Index, a standard reference manual for chemicals, drugs, and other compounds, and turned to the section on the class of hormones to which norbolethone's precursor belonged.

While the result held for the standard classes of heart drugs — statins, anticoagulants and antihypertensives — it did not for beta blockers.

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 deaFor 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 deafor a chemical substance that enters the cancer cells with the antibody and triggers their death.

The first success in the search for HIV treatments was a class of antiretroviral drugs called reverse transcriptase inhibitors (see full diagram).

The largest class of human target proteins for drugs are the so - called G - protein - coupled receptors.

«New synthetic amino acid for emerging class of drugs.»

OCA is the first in a new class of drugs, farnesoid X receptor (FXR) agonists, and the response of the patients to OCA shows that abnormalities in the system it targets may be critical for this condition.

Prof Tilley and her team are currently working with experts from Japanese anti-cancer drug giant Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited and Swiss - based foundation Medicines for Malaria Venture to identify additional classes of parasite specific proteasome inhibitors that could be advanced to clinical trials.

Preliminary results of the study were presented at a World Health Organization (WHO) evidence review group meeting, while UNITAID has issued a call for further research into the use of endectocide class drugs, of which ivermectin is currently the only one registered for human use, as new vector control tools in the fight against malaria and other mosquito borne disease.

With the release and aggressive marketing of the long - acting narcotic OxyContin in 1996, a class of drugs that had largely been reserved for cancer patients was becoming a go - to treatment for conditions such as lower back pain.

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.

Given existing antidepressants don't work for many people, the excitement surrounding the development of a new class of treatments from recreational drugs such as magic mushrooms is understandable.

A wave of encouraging clinical - trial data is raising hopes for a new class of drugs to treat rheumatoid arthritis.

In August, for the first time in more than a decade, the FDA approved a new class of antiretroviral drugs called entry inhibitors.

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.

Drugs of another class, the antidepressants, including selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors such as Prozac, take weeks to kick in, unacceptably long for someone suffering severe anxiety.