Sentences with phrase «drug resistance remains»

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Stopping after a few days — when the symptoms have cleared — can give the remaining bacteria an opportunity to develop resistance to the drug and rally, causing a worse infection.

In 2010, Malaysia introduced voluntary «cure and care» treatment centres providing methadone that began to replace many compulsory centres but government and public resistance to closure of compulsory detention remains high because of a zero - tolerance approach to drugs and a lack of recognition of the effectiveness of voluntary centres.

The ability for cancer cells to develop resistance to chemotherapy drugs — known as multi-drug resistance — remains a leading cause for tumor recurrence and cancer metastasis, but recent findings offer hope that oncologists could one day direct cancer cells to «turn off» their resistance capabilities.

While the combination of targeted therapies improves patient outcomes, any remaining cancer cells can lead to drug resistance.

«Cures and preventive measures remain elusive, and the incidence of resistance to antiepileptic drugs is a clinical limitation.

«Our results also suggest that most of the mutations leading to influenza drug resistance are on the wane, so that recent efforts in controlling drug use are paying off, but we should remain vigilant,» commented Stéphane Aris - Brosou.

However, Lipsitch says that if livestock producers simply switch from antibiotics in the classes that McDonald's won't buy to growth promoters from other classes of antibiotics, bacterial drug resistance might remain at its current prevalence or continue to increase.

However, questions remain about how hard sweeps of drug resistance can occur at all under combination therapy.

The ability for cancer cells to develop resistance to chemotherapy drugs - known as multi-drug resistance - remains a leading cause for tumor recurrence and cancer metastasis, but recent findings offer hope that oncologists...