Sentences with phrase «drugs fight infection»

Not exact matches

The group called for efforts to promote the prudent use of drugs and research to develop new antibiotics and new infection fighting tools.

But you probably know Mr. Shkreli from his company Turing Pharmaceuticals's outrageous increasing of prices on a drug that helps people with compromised immune systems fight parasitic infections.

A drug used to help cancer and AIDS patients fight parasitic infections will soon be affordable again.

Plus, lauric acid is essentially non-toxic, which gives it a distinct advantage over modern pharmaceutical drugs that are typically used to fight viruses, bacterial infections and fungal infections (I mean, heck, I'd rather down some coconut oil over conventional drugs any day!).

Today's publication of «Tackling Drug Resistant Infections Globally: Final Report and Recommendations», by Lord Jim O'Neill, is a global landmark in the fight to keep antibiotics effective for both animals and people, says NOAH, which represents the UK animal medicines sector.

Researchers and health workers save lives by routinely rolling out seasonal vaccines and deploying drugs to fight the virus and its secondary infections.

As the fight against drug - resistant infections continues, University of Leeds scientists are looking back at previously discarded chemical compounds, to see if any could be developed for new antibiotics.

«Rather than give more antihelminthic drugs, we want to help people fight off the infection by themselves.

For instance, he was instrumental in convincing pharmaceutical companies in the mid-1990s that a cocktail of drugs was the best way to fight HIV, said David Cooper, the head of the Kirby Institute for infection and immunity in society in Sydney, Australia, in an interview last year with ScienceInsider.

As more reports appear of a grim «post-antibiotic era» ushered in by the rise of drug - resistant bacteria, a new strategy for fighting infection is emerging that targets a patient's cells rather than those of the invading pathogens.

The drugs calm the attacks but damage the ability to fight infections and cancer.

But as part of a clinical trial led by Hall, she is one of the first kids in the country to receive a drug called GM - CSF that researchers hope will boost her immune system enough so that it can fight off potential infections.

In a discovery that holds promise for future drug development, scientists have detected for the first time how nature performs an impressive trick to produce key chemicals similar to those in drugs that fight malaria, bacterial infections and cancer.

«Cancer support drug may help critically injured kids fight off deadly infections.»

The new research indicates that, in addition to using powerful antibiotics to fight off infections in patients with sepsis, immunotherapy drugs that boost the immune system may be an effective therapy.

The impact of rheumatoid arthritis and the drugs used to treat the condition on the ability to fight infection is significant, and this study underscores the importance of vaccination in helping prevent the impact of influenza and other infections.»

But the authors suggest it could be of great value to people fighting MRSA, tuberculosis, and infections with rare - but - nasty Enterococcus bacterial strains that aren't responding to available drugs.

Scientists hope that the drug, known as PMEA, might eventually help to fight HIV infection — particularly when given to people immediately after exposure to the virus.

The new finding, announced today in the journal Science, opens up a novel approach to designing drugs to fight other bacteria, such as those that cause pneumonia, ear infections, cholera and Lyme disease.

Such drugs promise to be the best way of controlling white blood cells, which normally fight infection but can be dangerous when overproduced.

Sutherlandia is a supplement commonly taken in Africa to fight symptoms of infection and some chronic diseases, such as diabetes, but MU researchers found it may disrupt anti-tuberculosis drugs.

Mice given a drug commonly used in patients to fight systemic fungal infections more often succumb to what would otherwise be a mild case of the flu.

They ran regular fundraisers to develop new drugs, like those that broke up the mucus or delivered aerosolized antibiotics that penetrated deep in the lungs to fight infection.

New insight into how Staphylococcus extracts iron from the heme in red blood cells may lead to better infection - fighting drugs.

The scaffold is implanted directly at the wound site by a surgeon and can be loaded with drugs to fight infection or with hormones and stem cells to encourage bone growth.

Scientists say they have powered up an old antibiotic to help in the fight against drug - resistant infections.

A $ 32 million grant from the National Institutes of Health is funding the collaborative, which could lead to drugs with unprecedented versatility in fighting different infections.

A class of drug called carbapenems are usually only used to fight infections that are immune to other drugs, and bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to these too.

The findings could lead to better drugs to fight common infections.

With bacteria evolving to resist antibiotics faster than scientists can concoct new drugs, the fight against resistant infections in hospitals and food supplies is a tough battle to win.

When vaccines don't perform, doctors turn to flu - fighting drugs to minimize the infection's impact

Scientists have developed a model of the outer membrane of the bacteria E.coli providing a brand new tool for developing new antibiotics and other drugs in the fight against infections.

However, people taking immunosuppressants must be closely monitored because these drugs reduce the body's ability to fight infections.

Drugs like Cytoxan (cyclophosphamide) and Rheumatrex (methotrexate) suppress inflammation by reducing the body's own ability to fight off infection.

Drug resistance is a major concern for both people and their pets, especially when fighting Staphylococcus aureus MRSA infections.

While no specific drug is available that will kill the virus in infected dogs, treatment consists primarily of efforts to combat dehydration by replacing electrolyte and fluid losses, controlling vomiting and diarrhea, and preventing secondary infections until the dog's immune system is able to fight the virus.

If the ancient concoction does indeed lead to new drugs, Diggle says they might be employed to fight difficult skin infections such as those that cause foot ulcers in people with diabetes.