Sentences with phrase «effective drug like»

Although there is no cure for SMA currently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has listed SMA as the neurological disease closest to finding a cure, due in part to effective drugs like the one developed in Lorson's lab.

Not exact matches

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.

In the past few years companies like Braeburn Pharmaceuticals, Intarcia Therapeutics, and Proteus Digital Health have set out to create better medical mousetraps through devices that make existing drugs more effective.

Solution migration: Increasingly, we're seeing a quick and effective technology solution (like, say, precision drug dosing cartridges) in one industry migrate rapidly to other industries (like self - service food and beverage providers) with just as much success and impact.

More common and larger - scale cyber-attacks (from Sony pictures to Spanish renewable energy companies) are yet another example of this unprecedented «communication» flow; just as growth of the dark web has allowed for more effective connections in illegal activities — drug trade, human trafficking, and the like.

«Eric Schneiderman has worked to reform our criminal justice system with «smart on crime» policies, like changing the Rockefeller Drug Laws and taking effective steps to stem the flow of illegal guns,» Koch said.

The researchers believe the drug could be equally effective in treating HSV - 1 in the mouth and HSV - 2 — which primarily affects the genitals — and possibly even other viral infections like HIV.

When diseases like cancer and AIDS are impacting millions of people each year and rare but deadly infections like Ebola are moving faster than treatment, the race to make effective drugs becomes a sprint.

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

«These results strongly suggest that drugs that act, in part, like BDNF could be effective therapeutics for treating Huntington's disease and other neurodegenerative conditions,» Longo said.

When you get to cancers like breast, prostate and kidney, which have smaller numbers of mutations, the drugs aren't quite as effective.

«Just like working memory can hold about 7 items and a drug can be effective for certain amount of time, social influence seems to have a limited time window for effectiveness.»

A synthetic cannabis - like drug in a pill was safe and effective in treating obstructive sleep apnea in the first large multi-site study of a drug for apnea funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Drugs like R121919 were originally designed to treat generalized anxiety disorder, irritable bowel syndrome and other diseases, but failed to be effective in treating those disorders.

«The fine - tuning of amino acids imparted versatile properties like flexibility, self - assembly, higher drug loading, biodegradability and biocompatibility for effective intracellular delivery of CSPNs.»

«We hope to get initiatives like this all over the subcontinent, and they could all join together, and that would put pressure on the national governments to make the drug bans more effective,» says Chris Bowden, the Bangaluru, India — based program manager for Saving Asia's Vultures from Extinction, a consortium of conservation groups and government agencies.

Sentinel will treat the consumer market like one giant observational study to make sure the drugs are as safe and effective as believed.

«It's like if you had an effective drug and people stopped using it.»

Highly dependent on their estrogen receptors for growth and survival, these tumor cells are sensitive to hormonal therapies, making drugs like tamoxifen and fulvestrant effective first - line therapies for many patients.

They'd also like to test the drug in larger animals and to find which dose of it that might be both safe and effective.

«IKKs are one of the most heavily sought after drug targets today, because pharmaceutical companies want safe and effective medications to treat the pain of arthritis, now that the safety of COX - 2 inhibitors, like Celebrex and Vioxx, have been called into question,» says Salk researcher Vinay Tergaonkar who was involved in the zebrafish study.

An herb long used in traditional Indian Ayurvedic medicine, boswellia may be more effective than drugs like ibuprofen for reducing inflammation.

St. John's wort may also make other medicines less effective, such as birth control pills, some HIV drugs, and blood thinners like Warfarin.

«Unlike other heart disease risk factors like high blood pressure or high cholesterol, we don't have specifically effective drugs to prevent heart failure, so we need to identify and verify effective strategies for prevention and emphasize these to the public,» she said.

Your doctor might also prescribe meds, such as antidepressants, to help ease pain and fatigue; antiseizure drugs, like pregabalin, may also be effective.

Exenatide and sitagliptin are type 2 diabetes drugs which improve the actions of a gut hormone called GLP - 1 (glucagon - like peptide 1), which is effective for the lowering of blood sugar in type 2 diabetes patients.

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That's still nearly twice as effective as the drug, but that other study really showed it may be more like 100 % in people who actually do it.

And are estrogen blocking drugs and supplements effective, safe, and legal, like many people claim?

My bias is toward food which doesn't act like a drug (even if it's a «good» drug, i.e. effective against a disease and relatively free of side effects).

Natural antihistamines — like quercetin and stinging nettle — can be more effective than synthetic drugs.

The two main reasons so many have stopped taking these kinds of drugs is because they were not that effective, or created strong side - effects like increasing risk of infections.

«Unlike other heart disease risk factors like high blood pressure or high cholesterol, we don't have specifically effective drugs to prevent heart failure, so we need to identify and verify effective strategies for prevention and emphasize these to the public.»

It's said that castor oil is just as effective as anti-fungal drugs in treating common infections like ringworm, jock itch (tinea cruris) and athlete's foot.

Just like in people, the drug Tamiflu can help ferrets, but the sooner they are treated, the more effective it will be.

Like many such herbal supplements, Ephedra was so effective for weight loss and energy that it got in the way of prescription diet drugs so of course it was banned by the FDA!

While a conventional vet may try things like antibiotics or other drugs, they are unlikely to be effective other than to relieve some of the symptoms.

A popular opiate - like drug, called tramadol, is also frequently prescribed for CLM / SM patients and is often effective in alleviating head / neck pain.

To avoid frequent or prolonged seizures other drugs such as Glutamate blockers; phenytoin, gabapentin, carbamazepine; and longer acting diazepam like drugs such as chlorazepate have been tried.19 Unfortunately, many times, they are not effective, and many are very expensive.

«Like background screening, effective drug testing should occur at the intersection of security and privacy,» says Attorney Lester Rosen, founder and President of Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a San Francisco area company that provides background checks and drug testing, and author of «The Safe Hiring Manual — The Complete Guide To Keeping Criminals, Terrorists, and Imposters Out of Your Workplace.»