Sentences with phrase «effective against drug»

To address this growing problem, NIAID is funding and conducting research on many aspects of antimicrobial (drug) resistance, including basic research on how microbes develop resistance, development of new and faster diagnostics, and clinical trials designed to find new vaccines and treatments effective against drug - resistant microbes.

The drugs increased survival of mice infected with TB and were effective against drug - resistant strains of TB.

«Antibiotic effective against drug - resistant bacteria in pediatric skin infections.»

Not exact matches

Taking this drug daily has shown to offer more than 90 % (and as much as 99 %) effective protection against HIV in clinical trials, and certain New Zealand residents will soon be able to get a three - month supply for just $ 5 (oh, and that's five New Zealand dollars, which is about $ 3.64 in U.S. money).

«The current messages saying that bed sharing is dangerous only if you or your partner are smokers, have been drinking alcohol or taking drugs that make you drowsy, are very tired or the baby is premature or of low - birth weight, are not effective,» the authors wrote in the study, adding that doctors need to «take a more definitive stance against bed sharing for babies under three months».

In his words, «The wide acceptance of NYSC Scheme both at the national and international levels is borne out by the noteworthy contribution of Corps members to such exercises as the electoral process, the effective nationwide campaign against HIV / AIDs, Road accidents, Drug Abuse, Human Trafficking, Corruption, Illiteracy and the implementation of various aspects of the SDGs programme.

A new study explains how a widely used drug is effective against inflammatory bowel disease and rejection of bone marrow transplants, while suggesting another way to address both health issues.

He hopes they can develop an antiviral drug that will be effective against the entire family of paramyxovirus.

A vaccine against rotavirus, a highly contagious bug that causes life - threatening diarrhea in young children, was deemed safe and effective by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel on Friday.

One of the greatest challenges in modern medicine is developing drugs that are highly effective against a target, but with minimal toxicity and side - effects to the patient.

A drug that releases two gases to protect the stomach lining may be significantly more effective than daily aspirin in protecting against cancer

This could make the drug effective against autoimmune disease.

He and his team concluded that the drug was effective against complications of flu, like pneumonia, thus encouraging its use.

The researchers also identified drugs that are effective against the cancers and could potentially be used in the fight to save the devils from extinction.

«Genes may cause tumor aggressiveness, drug resistance in African - American prostate cancer: Research found many targeted therapies for prostate cancer may not be effective against tumors in African - American men.»

To make a compound work better against a specific disease target, medicinal chemists optimize the drug, tweaking its structure or physical properties to make it more effective and safer.

«New drug proves effective against antibiotic - resistant «superbugs».»

Lab results are impressive: the drug is as effective against the 26th generation as it is against the first.

Bioengineers from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have shown for the first time that lithium chloride, a common drug used to treat mental health disorders, could offer an effective treatment against osteoarthritis by disrupting the length of the cells» antennae called primary cilia.

Checkpoint inhibitors already produce unprecedented rates of long - term remission for a handful of hard - to - treat cancers, but their potential is even greater: Because such drugs modify the body's response to cancer, rather than the cancer itself, they could theoretically be effective against almost any kind of malignancy.

More important, the drugs are not much more effective against depression than are sugar pills, he says.

In contrast to viral proteins, the host targets are less prone to mutations and thus drugs targeting them could be more effective against viruses, which mutate easily.

When all the evidence is weighed together, Prozac, Paxil, and other such popular pills seem to be at best weakly effective against depression — an argument Kirsch presses in his new book, The Emperor's New Drugs.

Tulane University researchers have developed a new drug that is effective against non-severe cases of malaria, according to results from an FDA - supervised clinical trial published in the latest issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

Using virtual tissue technology, researchers at Indiana University have identified a potential new drug target in the fight against polycystic kidney disease, an illness with no effective FDA - approved treatment that affects 200,000 people per year in the United States.

Co-senior study investigator and cancer biologist Iannis Aifantis, PhD, says the study offers the first evidence that «drugs targeting and disrupting leukemia cells» microenvironment — or what goes on around them — could prove effective against the disease.»

For example, the study defined cases of pancreatic cancer that are driven by a gene called BRAF, for which there are FDA - approved drugs, and showed that such drugs were selectively effective against BRAF - mutated pancreatic cancer cells.

A new paper published in the journal Science Translational Medicine describes the discovery and biological profiling of an exciting new anti-malarial clinical drug candidate, MMV390048, effective against resistant strains of the malaria parasite, and across the entire parasite lifecycle, with the potential to cure and protect in a single dose.

In research published in BioMetals, UJ3 is shown to be as effective against human esophageal cancer cells, as a widely - used chemotherapy drug in use today.

«We need to do everything we can to find effective drugs against the Zika virus, as changes in travel and climate have caused more tropical diseases to move into new parts of the globe,» said Kao, who has also spent 15 years studying the virus that causes hepatitis C.

A subsidy program intended to drive down the cost of lifesaving malaria drugs called artemisinin - based combination therapies — now considered the most effective treatment against the parasitic disease — was unveiled today in Norway.

The other study showed how using a combination of drugs at increased potency could prove an effective therapy against glioblastoma by inhibiting the PI3K and MAPK cellular pathways.

The compound isn't effective against so - called Gram - negative bacteria, increasingly feared in hospitals for their resistance to existing drugs.

What's more, the women in both the heparin and control groups also received injections of the drug for 42 days after birth, potentially helping to protect them against blood clots that may manifest themselves at that point, but possibly diluting the results — making it appear that heparin was not as effective as it may have been.

Because it more effectively induces cancer cell apoptosis in p53 - deficient tumors, FL118 is especially effective against late - stage cancers, which usually lose functional p53 and are resistant to DNA - damage drugs.

The targets of these drugs were not know to be present in cancer cells and therefore no one had considered the possibility that these drugs might be effective against aggressive cancer types, says Professor Ivaska.

In theory, drugs targeting CXCR4 would be an effective addition to the arsenal against HIV.

Although there remains no cure for Alzheimer's, researchers hope that testing potential drugs or therapies prior to mental decline will prove to be more successful than previous attempts at finding the most effective treatment in the battle against the debilitating disease.

A team of biologists from San Diego State University has developed a platform for identifying drugs that could prove to be effective against a variety of viral diseases.

No e-cigarette company has submitted an application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve e-cigarettes for smoking cession, and the FDA has not taken any action against companies that claim e-cigarettes are effective for quitting smoking.

To make things worse, no antiviral drugs currently available have proven effective against it, and because scientists do not know where the virus resides between outbreaks, environmental control is impossible.

Ivermectin, the established drug which successfully treats the infection, is known to be effective against minor damage caused to the front of the eye by the worm, but until now scientists had very little clear evidence about the drug's role in preventing more serious effects of infection, in particular damage to the optic nerve.

Parish says these positive results suggest the drugs might be effective against other autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis.

In a study using mice, the researchers found that using Dox and TRAIL in the pseudo-platelet drug delivery system was significantly more effective against large tumors and circulating tumor cells than using Dox and TRAIL in a nano - gel delivery system without the platelet membrane.

Chemotherapy has been shown to be effective in a wide range of patients, but one of its main problems is the emergence of resistance against the anti-tumor drug used.

«I hope the result will be drugs that are more effective against tuberculosis and offer a faster route to a cure with fewer side effects.»

«Since doxorubicin is one of the cheapest drugs that is effective against many types of cancer but rarely used in colon cancer, the combination therapy could be highly effective in combating colon cancer while drastically lowering risk of cardiotoxic side effects.»

«Repurposed drug found to be effective against Zika virus: Researchers say findings support further investigation as potential treatment for Zika - infected adults.»

The drug works by inhibiting replication of the hepatitis C virus; researchers noted that both hepatitis C and Zika belong to the same viral family and bore strong structural similarities that could make sofosbuvir effective against the latter.

The researchers tested the drug on mice with H. pylori infections from several different cell lines, and found that the drug was effective against the H. pylori while maintaining populations of healthy gut bacteria.