Sentences with phrase «classes of drugs against»

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Hagens Berman prosecuted a lawsuit against TAP Pharmaceuticals Products, Inc. on behalf of a class of consumers and third - party payors who purchased the drug Lupron.

«I guess it seems mundane in light of all the dangerous things health classes need to warn against: smoking, drugs, AIDS.

Never mind that the agency's own panel of advisers urged that the drug be rejected, citing concerns that it could promote emergence of drug - resistant bacteria and that the drug belongs to an class of drugs needed as a last line of defense against serious human infections.

Six months later, however the council decided to go against its original decision and classify methylamphetamine as a class A drug - something the committee warns proves its lack of coherent criteria, and shows a tendency to respond to media concern.

From 2003 through 2007, Simmons, Hanly & Conroy represented 5,000 individual plaintiffs in a class - action lawsuit against Purdue Pharma regarding the use of opioid drugs, according to the county.

The Home Office says cocaine is the only drug which has risen in use since 1998 and although cocaine use has been stable since 2000 - fewer than five per cent of adults have used the Class A drug in the last year - the government says it is determined to strengthen efforts against it.

The politician, who resigned from the cabinet in the wake of the expenses scandal and lost her seat in the 2010 election, upgraded the drug from class C to B - bringing in a tougher line against users and dealers.

In the fall of 2006, the FDA's veterinary advisory committee voted against approving cefquinome, citing concerns that resistance to this vital class of drug could spread from bacteria in beef to hospital superbugs that respond to little else.

Dr O'Neill added: «y - ACT exhibits potent antibacterial activity against two important representatives of the ESKAPE * class of pathogens, which are bacteria that have developed the ability to «escape» the action of existing drugs.

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.

Today, the U.K. Parliament's House of Lords approved the government's proposal to reclassify cannabis as a dangerous Class B drug, along with amphetamines and speed, against the recommendations of its own Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD).

«Being highly active against drug - resistant strains of M. tuberculosis, this novel class of drugs provides us with an excellent opportunity to treat tuberculosis.»

Members of this class of drugs are usually highly specific against components of a particular virus, and mutations in the virus that change these components can make them ineffective.

An entire class of proteins called transcription factors, which regulate the activity of certain genes by interacting with specific sequences of DNA, has largely been ignored by the pharmaceutical industry because it's difficult to design and screen drugs against them.

A class of therapeutic drugs known as protein kinase inhibitors has in the past decade become a powerful weapon in the fight against various life - threatening diseases, including certain types of leukemia, lung cancer, kidney cancer and squamous cell cancer of the head and neck.

Checkpoint inhibitors are a class of drugs designed to free the body's immune system to fight back against cancer.

«The discovery raises the hope that HIV may not be able to develop resistance against this novel class of drugs,» said study co-author Paul Palumbo of Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine.

This candidate new drug, a first - in - its - class, shows activity against a broad range of tumor types in mice and appears safe at this stage.»

But Deer's investigation - nominated in February 2011 for two British Press Awards - discovered that, while Wakefield held himself out to be a dispassionate scientist, two years before the Lancet paper was published - and before any of the 12 children were even referred to the hospital - he had been hired to attack MMR by a lawyer, Richard Barr: a jobbing solicitor in the small eastern English town of King's Lynn, who hoped to raise a speculative class action lawsuit against drug companies which manufactured the triple shot.

Monoclonal antibodies are one such class of biologics and these drugs are made by farming antibodies from B cells that will act against a specific part of the disease process.

«Now you have a way to test efficacy of future vaccines or future therapeutics, whether those therapeutics are drugs that exist already that could be used in a different way for a different purpose, or new classes of drugs such as antibody - based therapeutics that would be more specifically against Zika,» Diamond said.

The fact that atrazine uses the aromatase pathway to increase estrogen production is important, because it means the chemical could work directly against aromatase inhibitors, a class of drugs used to treat breast cancer.

The Lower Merion School District near Philadelphia finds itself defending against a potential class action after a student complained last month of being photographed inside his home by a webcam from a school - issued laptop computer and accused of selling drugs.

In general, this class of drug is not effective against Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Brucella, Mycoplasma, Mycobacteria, or anaerobic bacteria.

In some instances, attorneys may recommend victims join a class action lawsuit against defective drug manufacturers, which can potentially award millions of dollars to victims.

Study Links Depo - Provera to Greater Breast Cancer Risk in Young Women, Drug Injury Lawyers Blog, July 16, 2012 Israeli Court Awards Highest - Ever Compensation in Class - Action Suit against Drug Company, Drug Injury Lawyers Blog, July 10, 2012 There have reportedly been more than 200 reports of people sustaining serious health complications from taking Pradaxa.

In May, lawyers working on Levine's behalf, along with lawyers from the AARP Foundation agreed on a class - action settlement against the facility that administered Levine's mother, stating «using dangerous drugs without the consent of residents or family members.»

Israeli Court Awards Highest - Ever Compensation in Class - Action Suit against Drug Company, Drug Injury Lawyers Blog, July 10, 2012 At Altman & Altman, LLP, our Depo - Provera lawyers represent clients and their families throughout the US that have been injured or lost a loved one because of a dangerous dDrug Company, Drug Injury Lawyers Blog, July 10, 2012 At Altman & Altman, LLP, our Depo - Provera lawyers represent clients and their families throughout the US that have been injured or lost a loved one because of a dangerous dDrug Injury Lawyers Blog, July 10, 2012 At Altman & Altman, LLP, our Depo - Provera lawyers represent clients and their families throughout the US that have been injured or lost a loved one because of a dangerous drugdrug.

Mr. Hemmat brought the only Colorado Class Action against Pfizer for their role in the misrepresentations of the drug Neurontin.

If somebody has an unwell family member with a prolonged battle against a serious illness, or if they themselves have an addiction to a Class A drug or a serious drink problem then that will span longer than the course of one exam sitting.

The Drug and Medical Device Product Liability Deskbook includes: detailed coverage of: warning - related claims and defenses; other information - based theories; strict liability; FDA - related per se liability; preemption of common law tort claims by the Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act and FDA regulations; class actions in drug and medical device litigation; theories of liability asserted against entities other than manufacturers; practical issues involving litigation management; the use of expert witnesses; and many other important topDrug and Medical Device Product Liability Deskbook includes: detailed coverage of: warning - related claims and defenses; other information - based theories; strict liability; FDA - related per se liability; preemption of common law tort claims by the Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act and FDA regulations; class actions in drug and medical device litigation; theories of liability asserted against entities other than manufacturers; practical issues involving litigation management; the use of expert witnesses; and many other important topDrug & Cosmetic Act and FDA regulations; class actions in drug and medical device litigation; theories of liability asserted against entities other than manufacturers; practical issues involving litigation management; the use of expert witnesses; and many other important topdrug and medical device litigation; theories of liability asserted against entities other than manufacturers; practical issues involving litigation management; the use of expert witnesses; and many other important topics.

Our pharmaceutical litigation attorneys have led the steering committees for many class - action lawsuits against the manufacturers of defective drugs like Pradaxa.