Sentences with phrase «deadly drugs in»

Police dogs are being exposed to deadly drugs in the line of duty.

«Excluding tobacco, alcohol is by far the deadliest drug in the U.S.,» he said.

Not exact matches

These drugs can also interact, in potentially deadly ways, with other medications.

The patient died of cerebral edema (brain swelling)-- a deadly adverse event that also afflicted Kite competitor Juno Therapeutics» rival drug in the space, which it was then forced to abandon.

And although the deadly drug is legal with a doctor's prescription, it's also being made illegally in underground labs and traded across the US.

Culiacán (Mexico)(AFP)- Amid a bloody dispute between rival drug gangs battling for control, the Mexican state of Sinaloa has just seen its deadliest weekend in years with at least 30 people killed.

Mexico's deadly drug - related violence surged to a new record in June, with 2,566 homicides that month alone.

The US is suffering from a deadly opioid epidemic, especially in rural areas, thanks to the widespread use of drugs like OxyContin as painkillers.

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP)-- While authorities investigate what set off a deadly shooting at an electronic music festival event, residents said it came amid a growing and increasingly open drug scene in this resort town that has long been spared the violence of Mexico's cartel wars.

AMATA, Mexico (Reuters)- Farmers growing marijuana in remote Mexican mountains are adopting techniques pioneered in the United States to produce more potent pot and boost profits from the cash crop that is fueling a deadly drug war.

There are those, for example, who are deadly frightened by the awesome growth in drug use among high school and even younger students, and by the easy availability of pornography for young people.

President Trump traveled to the first - in - the - nation primary state of New Hampshire to rail against drug dealers responsible for the deadly opioid epidemic devastating the US, vowing «tough action» including the death penalty.

Pills laced with the deadly drug fentanyl that were made to look like Oxycodone have been found in Buffalo for the first time, prompting an urgent alert from the state Attorney General's office.

New York doctors are in desperate need of high - speed flu tests after the Food and Drug Administration banned two top brands at the height of a deadly flu season.

The New York Democrat said if the Food and Drug Administration doesn't move to reign in the new, deadly products — that include flavors like Sour Smurf Sauce, V'Nilla Cookies & Milk, Golden Oreo and Whip'd Strawberry — addiction among children will spread like «wildfire.»

VARYSBURG, NY - A Chautauqua County man is accused of driving while on drugs leading up to a deadly crash this past weekend in Wyoming County.

More than 400 Westchester students gathered in October as part of Project WORTHY's Youth Summit at the Westchester County Center where keynote speaker and Olympic coach Tony Hoffman warned students about how prescription drugs found in a medicine cabinet led him down a near deadly path of addiction, crime and prison, before he started his journey to recovery.

Their first visit was to CytoCybernetics, where CEO Glenna Bett explained how her company has developed a system that uses computers and live human cells to screen drugs in their early stages of development, to determine whether they may cause any potentially deadly side effects.

An RNA - based drug has treated an infection of the deadly Ebola virus — the first drug to have been shown to do so in all recipients.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a new immunotherapy drug to treat advanced melanoma, signaling a paradigm shift in the way the deadly skin cancer is treaDrug Administration today approved a new immunotherapy drug to treat advanced melanoma, signaling a paradigm shift in the way the deadly skin cancer is treadrug to treat advanced melanoma, signaling a paradigm shift in the way the deadly skin cancer is treated.

Maureen Boyle, chief of the Science Policy Branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Edward Bilsky, a professor of pharmacology and the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Neurosciences at the University of New England, showed how opioids can commandeer the brain's natural systems that control pain and reward, and trigger a vicious response cycle that can diminish the pain - relieving power of medications, prompt users to reach for increasingly larger quantities of opioids and lead to deadly overdoses.

Nightmare bacteria — those that are resistant to almost every drug — are particularly deadly in the elderly and people with chronic illnesses.

The latest findings build on previous work by Dr. Habib's lab showing that the same combination of drugs was successful in a mouse model of glioblastoma, a deadly type of brain cancer.

UT Southwestern Medical Center cancer researchers have identified a protein critical to the spread of deadly cancer cells and determined how it works, paving the way for potential use in diagnosis and eventually possible therapeutic drugs to halt or slow the spread of cancer.

A patient with extensively drug - resistant TB flew from Mumbai to Chicago, and the deadly disease could become an infamous export due to problems in India's public health system

Thus far, such side effects seen in clinical trials have been minor, but it sometimes takes years of exposure to a drug before deadly infections show up, he says.

But the same drugs, whether prescribed by a doctor or bought on the street, can quickly turn deadly by simultaneously messing with crucial systems in the body.

By increasing the pH of the stomach, PPIs also boost the risk of infection: studies published in JAMA in 2004 and 2005 reported that subjects on acid - suppressing drugs are nearly twice as likely to develop pneumonia, and nearly three times as likely to acquire a potentially deadly infection from the bacterium Clostridium difficile, as unmedicated subjects (although the overall risk is low).

«Asthma drugs could prevent prevent deadly form of pneumonia, research suggests: Early administration may block infection of important cells deep in the lungs.»

Immunotherapy is a promising approach in the treatment of metastatic melanoma, an aggressive and deadly form of skin cancer; but for most patients, immunotherapy drugs so far have failed to live up to their promise and provide little or no benefit.

In a significant breakthrough, the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) has identified a drug, propentofylline or PPF, that could help treat patients with deadly brain cancer.

Two years ago, doctors suspected that an old blood pressure drug might help people with Marfan syndrome, which can cause deadly ruptures of the aorta; and today, they report success in a small group of children.

DIPG is the most deadly brain tumor in children and currently there are no approved drugs for treating it.

But if you're administering drugs in a hospital, such a slip can be deadly.

Now, in a novel twist, researchers have found a way to recruit help from none other than Mycobacterium tuberculosis itself to make the deadly pathogen susceptible to an existing TB drug that it has learned to dodge.

In the meantime, Merck spent $ 100 million a year on consumer advertising for the drug — more than Pepsi spent for its cola — and published more company - funded studies that obscured potentially deadly side effects.

A disaster is looming in Cambodia and the rest of the Greater Mekong subregion: A deadly malaria parasite has become resistant to both drugs used in the so - called artemisinin combination therapy, raising the specter of untreatable malaria.

Now, in a novel twist, researchers have found a way to recruit help from none other than Mycobacterium tuberculosis itself to make the deadly pathogen susceptible to an existing tuberculosis (TB) drug that it has learned to dodge.

An experimental drug that protected monkeys from the deadly Marburg virus appears to have potential for treating people who have been exposed to the virus, according to a study published in the July 23 edition of The New England Journal of Medicine.

«Having cops carry naloxone can be a critical effort in addressing overdose fatalities in some areas,» he said, «and represents a general shift in policing the nation's drug problem away from incarceration, which has proven expensive, ineffective, and deadly for far too many people.»

The study, which appears August 3 in the peer - reviewed journal Nature Communications, showed that pairing the chemotherapy with an experimental drug eliminates the deadly population of cells believed to be responsible for repopulating the tumor.

Since HIV emerged in the»80s, drug «cocktails» transformed the deadly disease into a manageable one.

Metastatic colorectal cancer, the third deadliest cancer in the Unites States, is typically treated with two chemotherapy drugs, 5 - Fluorouracil in combination with either oxaliplatin or irinotecan.

Two of these drugs use RNAi to shut down genes involved in macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the elderly, and a third disables a deadly pneumonia - causing virus.

The FDA needs to move beyond its traditional focus on clinical studies about drug effectiveness and side effects, and to seek public health data on potential abuse, the Academies advises in its 400 - page proposal for targeting the deadly issue.

Scientists at Rutgers University have developed a targeted drug delivery system that they believe could make ovarian cancer more treatable and increase survival rates for the most deadly gynecological cancer in the United States.

Tamoxifen, a drug currently used to treat breast cancer, also kills a fungus that causes a deadly brain infection in immunocompromised patients.

Sun lamps and tanning beds are legal for adult use in all 50 states, even though the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classifies them as a Class 1 carcinogen like tobacco, radon, and arsenic, and the use of tanning beds has been linked to melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.

Banned drugs deadly to vultures remain in ready supply.

A patent application for a drug that could destroy the deadly childhood disease known as acute lymphoblastic leukemia — and potentially other cancers as well — has been submitted by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, the University of Maryland and the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.