Sentences with phrase «dose than the disease»

Dr. Kanda noted that because patients with multiple sclerosis tend to undergo numerous contrast - enhanced brain MRI scans, the hyperintensity of the DN seen in these patients may have more to do with the large cumulative gadolinium dose than the disease itself.

Not exact matches

A large 2014 study of more than 25,000 people with heart disease found that putting people on long - acting doses of vitamin B3 to raise their levels of «good,» or HDL, cholesterol didn't reduce the incidence of heart attacks, strokes, or deaths.

And then came the bone - marrow transplant, a procedure that removes and treats a portion of the diseased marrow, then kills the remaining marrow with massive doses of chemotherapy as much as 10 times stronger than normal.

less than or equal to lamivudine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Antiretroviral therapy, usually means 1 - 2 drugs, used in early studies Antiretroviral zidovudine (also known as ZDV) Breastfeeding Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative Breastfeeding and HIV International Transmission Study Combined antiretroviral therapy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Deoxyribonucleic Acid Exclusive Breastfeeding Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay Food and Agrigulture Organization Fixed dose combination ART, e.g., lamividine, stavudine, and nevirapine Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy, 3 or more drugs for more effective treatment used in later studies Human Immunodeficiency virus International Atomic Energy Agency Infant feeding Infant and young child feeding Lopinavir cubic millimetre Mother - to - Child Transmission of HIV Non-governmental organization Nevirapine Polymerase Chain Reaction People Living with HIV Prevention of Mother - to - Child Transmission Replacement Feeding Ritonavir Ribonucleic acid, one of the three major macromolecules (along with DNA and proteins) that are essential for all known forms of life single dose NVP United Nations Agencies Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS United Nations Population Fund United Nations Commissioner for Refugees United Nations Children's Fund U.S. Agency for International Development World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action United Nations World Food Programme World Health Assembly WHO 2010 Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding World Health Organization Zidovudine (same drug as AZT)

To please regulators that would ultimately greenlight clinical trials, Moderna will have to show its drug is still safe at a dose 10 times higher than what's needed to treat the disease — something the new paper doesn't demonstrate, says geneticist Michael Heartlein, chief technical officer at the competing mRNA company Translate Bio in Cambridge.

* The ACC / AHA cholesterol treatment guideline recommends prescribing the strongest statins at high doses to most men older than 65, even those with no history of heart disease, or any major risk factor for heart attacks, and with normal cholesterol levels.

In the study, mice given a lethal dose of dengue virus less than a week after receiving the protective DMAb were completely protected from lethal disease — significantly more rapid than vaccine - driven protection, which can take weeks to months to reach peak efficacy levels.

Although some people do not get their children vaccinated, and such children are at least eight times more likely to get the disease than those who receive all five recommended doses they are not the driving force behind the large scale outbreaks or epidemics, says Pawloski.

In mice, the dose required for contraception was 10 times lower than that required for treating Gaucher's disease patients.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicdisease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicDisease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

The condition is more common than muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, but the development of new therapeutic concepts is hindered by the fact that unlike muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, where a single mutated gene causing the disease is known, the entire human chromosome 21 (containing around 300 genes) still has to be dissected into individual gene - dose contributions to the DS symptoms.

«In all the subgroups we tested the longer arm tended to be better than the shorter one, but we did detect an interaction between docetaxel dose and disease - free survival,» Joensuu said.

The shorter - term single - dose trial is recruiting 40 healthy and relatively young (ages 21 - 65 y) subjects for a narrow safety trial, whereas the multiple - dose trial will be conducted in 60 persons suffering with PD (the trial protocol specifies the recruitment of idiopathic PD subjects), and includes subjects that are somewhat older (ages 40 - 80) and with a wider range of severity of disease (Hoehn and Yahr stages I - III) than were used in AFFiRiS» trial of PD01A.

«With regards to the warnings that comfrey can cause cancer and liver disease, most herbal practitioners point out that those results were from studies that isolated the pyrrolizidine alkaloids and fed or injected them into animal subjects in doses far higher than any typical usage of comfrey leaf, and that comfrey leaf has been regularly ingested by thousands of people around the world without reported ill effects.»

The researchers caution that that the dose of methotrexate made use of in the study is lower than that normally administered to rheumatoid arthritis patients in the West, and that 24 weeks is not long enough to assess disease progression.

The type and dose of medication will depend on your individual blood fat levels (rather than total cholesterol) and whether you have heart disease, diabetes, or other risk factors for heart disease.

My Comment: Since mainstream physicians know that synthetic «monster» hormones are dangerous, causing cancer and heart disease, they shrug their shoulders and accept «low dose» synthetic hormone therapy as more desirable than the higher dosage used routinely.

The model of aflatoxin - dosing used in these studies, discussed in more detail below, was much more realistic than the model used in most of Campbell's studies, and thus the balance of the evidence suggests that adequate protein likely offers very powerful protection against cancer in someone who hasn't already developed the disease.

He does not comment on adult doses but I have never seen any evidence that adults require more fat - soluble vitamins or more essential fatty acids than children do, and in the case of essential fatty acids the cases is quite certainly the opposite, that their requirement is significant for children but extremely low to the point of infinitesimal for the adult except in certain disease states, during periods of growth (bodybuilding) or tissue repair (after injury or sickness) or during pregnancy and lactation.

Its hepatoprotective properties and cell membrane stabilizing activity make it an effective treatment for kidney diseases, and some findings show that it may have a more protective effect than deferoxamine against kidney iron deposition at a dose of 200 mg per kg.

The video discusses vitamin C from supplements, which can not only be a waste of money, but can be potentially detrimental to your health, particularly in large doses like vitamin A, see: http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/herbalife®-supplement-liver-toxicity/ There is also evidence that rather than protecting from disease, multivitamins can actually increase the risk of breast cancer: http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/multivitamin-supplements-and-breast-cancer/ Also, I wouldn't put so much emphasis on one particular «superfood», because there are many others that contribute to longevity, like cocoa (but of course without the milk and sugar that many folks tend to add for palatability), see: http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/kuna-indian-secret/ and: http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/new-antioxidant-superstars-2/.

If scientists want to create the early signs of heart disease in animals, they need to feed them doses of cholesterol much larger than the total capacity of the body to make cholesterol.

The package clearly says to use no more frequently than every 30 - days; however, I dosed her again anyway figuring the possible ill effects of using the Frontline somewhat more often than recommended can't be any worse than the tick - borne diseases.

It is a technique used by physicians that fight kidney rejection and autoimmune diseases of many sort — give multiple drugs at lower doses rather than single drugs at high doses.

This could be a problem in patients with congestive heart failure or other patients who require sodium restriction May stunt growth if used in young, growing animals May lower seizure threshold and alter mood and behavior At high doses, this medication can cause birth defects early in pregnancy, be irritating to the stomach or cause higher than normal blood sugar levels If your pet has received high doses, it should not be vaccinated without your veterinarian's advice as the vaccine may not work or it may actually give your pet the disease you are trying to prevent Less common side effects include weight gain, insomnia, panting, diarrhea, vomiting, elevated liver enzymes, pancreatitis and behavior changes Serious side effects are not expected with routine use.

It should be noted that doses of ivermectin used for prevention and treatment of heartworm disease are approximately 50 times lower than doses used for other parasites, a fact that has allowed for FDA approval of ivermectin products for the prevention of heartworm but not necessarily for other small animal anti-parasite uses.

The researchers found a strong dose - dependent relationship between the number of the ACE's that people had experienced and 10 behavioural risk factors associated with the leading causes of death in adults; including smoking, severe obesity, decreased physical activity, depressed mood, a suicide attempt, alcoholism, any drug use, injection drug use, greater than fifty lifetime sexual partners, and a history of a sexually transmitted disease.