Sentences with phrase «effective drug at»

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Though wholesalers like McKesson have limited control over what happens to the drugs they drop off at the pharmacy door, they have a legal obligation to maintain an effective system that will help prevent diversion; they are required to detect and report «suspicious orders» — those of unusual size, frequency or deviating from a customer's normal patterns — to the DEA.

Drugs that were effective at warding off infections decades ago are now less potent because the bacteria they were designed to kill have developed defence mechanisms.

Drugs that were effective at warding off infections decades

These drugs were used primarily to treat cancer but they were also reasonably effective in producing medical abortion, at least up to eight weeks gestation.

Treatment is seven times more cost - effective than domestic law enforcement, ten times more effective than interdiction, and 23 times more effective than attacking drugs at their source.

Are drug laws any more effective at protecting us than gun laws?

Private companies taking full responsibility for their products is far more effective at promoting food safety than any government inspection program and the War on Drugs has done much to ruin what little liberty we have left.

A 2005 study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that consuming almonds as part of a heart - healthy diet can be just as effective at lowering LDL «bad» cholesterol levels as first generation statin drugs.

Given the variety of strains and ways to take in the drug, patients could find marijuana more effective for their health conditions at one dispensary rather than another.

In doing so, it is reiterating its support for a «war on drugs» mindset and a punitive drugs policy which all the evidence shows is not effective at reducing drug use.

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.

As a result, Soviet pharmaceutical companies churned out billions of units of questionable drugs that were only partially effective at normal dosages, weakening bacteria but not killing them outright — an environment perfect for spurring antibiotic resistance.

«If drugs are proved not to be effective or to have some bad effects, [there may be] pressure not to publish these findings at all,» Anderson says.

When Gupta's team added salinomycin to cultured human breast - cancer cells, it was about 100 times as effective at killing the cancer stem cells as popular anti-cancer drug, paclitaxel.

At the end of the 3 years, the drug was shown to be effective and the same patients were offered the choice of taking a statin or not.

If proved correct, drugs that modify the immune system may be effective at treating this and other psychiatric conditions that may be associated with mutated microglia, says Capecchi.

Mitchell Cohen, a microbiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Atlanta, says that although he finds the EGS approach to drug resistance «very clever,» in the long run, it may be no more effective than another new antibiotic.

The authors — Martin Llewelyn, a professor of infectious diseases at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, and nine British colleagues — point to recent studies that have shown shorter courses of certain drug classes such as quinolones are as effective as the longer courses that have been recommended in the past.

University of Melbourne Professor, Leann Tilley, an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow at the Bio21 Institute, tested the new drug in red blood cells infected with parasites and found that it was as effective at killing the artemisinin resistant parasites as it was for the sensitive parasites.

If dozens of human and animal studies published over the past six years are borne out by large clinical trials, nicotine — freed at last of its noxious host, tobacco, and delivered instead by chewing gum or transdermal patch — may prove to be a weirdly, improbably effective drug for relieving or preventing a variety of neurological disorders, including Parkinson's disease, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Tourette's and schizophrenia.

Other studies suggest that nicotine may be as effective at enhancing attention as methylphenidate (Ritalin) and the wakefulness - promoting drug modafinil (Provigil).

As a result, infectious disease experts currently try to find a balance between making sure drugs are effective at knocking out harmful bacteria while keeping the treatment duration to the bare minimum required to stamp out an infection.

Since cows are so good at making broadly neutralizing antibodies, it also might be possible to turn the cow's handiwork into drugs for HIV treatment, if bovine antibodies are effective at stopping the virus in other animals, he says.

Until now, EGFR inhibitors have only been effective at treating the 10 to 15 percent of non-small cell lung cancers that have a variant of EGFR, but the two - drug combo could potentially work for all non-small cell lung cancers, explained Dr. John Minna, Director of the Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research and Professor of Internal Medicine and Pharmacology.

Christian Confavreux, a neurologist at Pierre Wertheimer Neurological Hospital in Lyon, France, and a member of that team, says that pregnancy is more effective at keeping MS in check than drugs commonly used to treat it.

Previous research at York showed that regulating cannabis use could result in more effective strategies aimed at helping drug users to access the right support and guidance.

The antibiotic, first identified by Nosopharm, is unique and promising on two fronts: its unconventional source and its distinct way of killing bacteria, both of which suggest the compound may be effective at treating drug - resistant or hard - to - treat bacterial infections.

For example, a study just out in The Lancet, funded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and focused on Medicare patients, found that the high - dose vaccine was 22 percent more effective at preventing flu - related hospital admissions.

«New study is an advance toward preventing a «post-antibiotic era»: Biologists identify drug combinations that may be highly effective at reducing growth of deadly bacteria.»

A statin drug commonly used to lower cholesterol is not effective in reducing the number and severity of flare ups from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to the results of a large multicenter clinical trial designed and directed by Gerard J. Criner, MD, Director of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA..

«These findings are important for cancer treatments, as currently there are no drug therapies for enchondromas and there are no universally effective chemotherapies for chondrosarcomas,» said senior author Benjamin Alman, M.D., chair of the Orthopaedic Surgery Department at Duke University Medical Center.

«These drugs are highly effective and well - tolerated by patients at all stages of liver disease.»

But some of these drugs are only effective after several months, and their use is «based on very weak evidence,» Niklas Långström, a psychiatric epidemiologist at KI, said at the press conference.

«One criticism of the PARP drugs is they are not active in patients who have developed resistance to other therapies, but we found veliparib appears to be effective in some platinum - resistant patients with recurrent or persistent disease,» said Robert L. Coleman, MD, lead author of the study and professor and vice chair of clinical research at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.

An existing anti-stroke drug is an effective treatment for middle - ear infections, showing the ability to suppress mucus overproduction, improve bacterial clearance and reduce hearing loss, according to researchers at Georgia State University and the University of Rochester.

Over her time at FDA, Woodcock has moved up, first by running the review group for biologics, then becoming the deputy director of biologics, then head of the Office of Therapeutics, and finally being appointed head of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), a division of FDA committed to ensuring that «all prescription and over-the-counter drugs are safe and effective.»

An affordable hepatitis C combination treatment including the new drug candidate ravidasvir has been shown to be safe and effective, with extremely high cure rates for patients, including hard - to - treat cases, according to interim results from the Phase II / III STORM - C - 1 trial presented by the non-profit research and development organisation Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) at the International Liver Conference in Paris.

Realizing they might have a potentially effective drug on their hands, Bogyo and his colleagues brought in Sonnenburg, whose lab is adept at using mouse models of C. difficile infection.

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.

A new insight into immune cells by scientists at The University of Manchester could lead to more effective drug treatments.

Achim Harder, head of anthelmintic research at Bayer, the German company that makes praziquantel, says it is not clear why the drug is less effective in Senegal.

However, this security system is so effective at protecting the brain that it prevents many life - saving drugs — all but some small molecules — from being able to treat cancer and other diseases of the brain.

MDR - TB Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, defined as strains that resist at least two of the most effective anti-tubercular drugs.

A drug used to treat men with late - stage prostate cancer proved effective in stemming progression of the disease in research participants who had not yet received chemotherapy and extended their survival, according to results from a multi-national Phase III clinical trial led by the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).

Detection of dementia at the earliest stages has become a worldwide priority, because drug treatments, prevention strategies and other interventions will likely be more effective very early in the disease process, before extensive brain damage has occurred.

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.

By performing experiments in petri dishes and with mice, they found that panobinostat, a drug designed to change the way cells regulate genes, may be effective at inhibiting DIPG growth and extending survival rates.

Although effective new drugs based on such research may be decades away, near - term payoffs could include ways of identifying teens at risk of developing schizophrenia early on, or tools that help physicians better manage their patients» medications, added Steve McCarroll, director of genetics research at Broad.

With drug - resistant strains running rampant, a few hospitals have limited use of certain antibiotics for months at a time — on the assumption that hardier drug - sensitive strains would outcompete the resistant bugs and allow the drugs to be effective once again.

However, this security system is so effective at protecting the brain that it prevents many life - saving drugs from reaching the cancer.