Sentences with phrase «effective drug on»

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.

Not exact matches

Traditional drug giants have caught on to the not - so - dirty little secret that outsourcing drug research (and in - licensing) may be a more effective strategy than trying to create groundbreaking new molecules within the confines of a single lab.

The drug may soon find a wider market if it can be shown effective in treating lymphoma and other blood cancers, and the price for those indications may well be different, based on their if value story.

The same outside adviser, who was unidentified in Tuesday's release, advised that a package of assistance programs to patients would: «force reporters to focus on the byzantine nature of drug pricing and health care and ensure the patient message gets out... specifically tie profits from Daraprim to the research and development of a new and more effective treatment for Daraprim patients.

Competitive bidding could very well be an effective way of fighting sky - high drug prices that are taking a toll on patients and their families.

InvivoSciences will continue to contribute to the improvement of human health by establishing a new paradigm for discovering drugs that focus on diseases with limited treatment options such as cardiac fibrosis, scleroderma, and lupus in a time - effective manner while remaining safe and cost effective.»

He says Mexican marijuana imports dropped by 40 percent «because they can't compete with the American quality and the American market... just two states stopping fighting the war on that drug, it has been effective.»

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.

The war on drugs is no more effective than tne prohibition era war on alcohol, which didn't work either.

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«The Sentencing Council's guideline brings sentencing guidance together for the first time to help ensure consistent and proportionate sentencing and provide effective guidance for sentencers and clear information for victims, witnesses and the public on how drug offenders are sentenced.»

«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.

«It is time to end the «war on drugs» and massively redirect resources towards effective evidence - based policies underpinned by rigorous economic analysis,» the foreword to the report, which was signed by Clegg, says.

Justice spokesman David Howarth said: «For these offenders, effective drug treatment outside prison will have a far greater impact on reducing future crime than short - term prison sentences.

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.

«There is increasing evidence that the UK's drugs policy is not only ineffective and not cost - effective but actually harmful, impacting particularly severely on the poor and the marginalised,» the motion says.

«Rather than educating youth about the dangers of opioids, focusing on getting hardened drug dealers poisoning our children off the streets, and offering addicts effective treatment, we will instead signal to users that addiction is a manageable condition and you can partake in illegal opioid use nearly risk - free.»

The trial of nusinersen was stopped in August when it became clear it was effective, making it unethical not to give the real drug to those on the placebo.

If they develop a drug based on the glass form of a molecule and it crystallises, they will not only have lost a potentially effective medicine, but they would have to do a massive recall.»

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.

«In the 1950's, the Brazilian health agencies added chloroquine into cooking salt and distributed it to the population in endemic areas as an effective way of spreading the inexpensive anti-malarial drug as a prophylactic on a wide scale.

«Understanding the fundamental biology of how our immune system works will lead to the development of more effective drugs and vaccines,» said Kanneganti, corresponding author on the paper.

These drugs are effective but have serious side effects on normal dividing tissues.

And DSHEA codified a loose arrangement: Under the law, as FDA notes on its website, «unlike drug products that must be proven safe and effective for their intended use before marketing, there are no provisions in the law for FDA to «approve» dietary supplements... before they reach the consumer.»

He pointed to the sudden rise in share prices for pharmaceutical firms working on Ebola vaccines as one type of economic spur to ensure that medicines are there in an emergency, along with WHO's capacity to «prequalify» drugs as safe and effective so that they can be sold more cheaply and widely.

Physicians may want to consider tailoring drugs based on a patient's BMI because a drug may not be as effective in obese or morbidly obese patients.

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.

Systems that use light as an on / off signal require permanent implants or are only effective close to the skin, and those that rely on drugs can be slow to switch on and off.

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.

Mental illness has reached crisis proportions, yet we still have no clear links between psychiatric diagnoses and what's going on in the brain — and no effective new classes of drugs.

Based on these ratings, each class of drugs was deemed effective (Level A), probably effective (Level B), possibly effective (Level C), or judged to have inadequate or conflicting evidence to support or refute the medications» use (Level U).

«The vaccine arena is just incredibly difficult; on the other hand, there have been huge strides with more effective drugs,» says Graham Allaway, a research scientist and founder of Panacos Pharmaceuticals.

Furthermore, there are no differences between the major political party affiliation groups on views about the use of animals in research, the safety of eating genetically modified (GM) foods and whether to allow access to experimental drug treatments before those treatments have been shown to be safe and effective.

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.

Patel published the results of a clinical trial on drug and psychological treatment, and he was working on other trials that assessed whether laypeople could be effective counselors.

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.»

One of these, UJ3, is as effective as the industry - standard drug Cisplatin in killing cancer cells in laboratory tests done on human esophageal cancer, breast cancer and melanoma.

A drug from a parasitic mushroom that lives on caterpillars could become an effective new painkiller for people with osteoarthritis within the next six years.

A review of studies on the treatment of chronic insomnia finds that cognitive behavioral therapy is an effective alternative to drug interventions

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.

«This is a major breakthrough for genetics studies on the virus and for designing ways to screen for effective drugs,» Rice says.

This webinar will focus on how rewiring of signaling pathways in response to drug treatment contributes to resistance and how this knowledge can be leveraged to develop more effective treatment strategies.

One was that all studies were short - term, less than six months, and all studies on effective drugs had more than 9 percent of participants drop out due to adverse effects.

Drugs then are tested on the remodeled patient cells to determine which treatment is likely to be most effective.

Draper's human organ system should be able to identify effective drugs and ineffective ones early in the drug discovery process, allowing developers to refocus resources on the strong candidates earlier and end unproductive research earlier, minimizing costs, Borenstein said.

More of the antibodies that coat the nanorod can therefore bind receptors on the surface of endothelial cells, and that leads to more effective cell adhesion and more effective drug delivery.

Unlike pharmaceutical company - produced drugs, homeopathic products don't have to prove that they are effective at treating anything in particular before going on the market.

The current preventive treatments based on psychological support and drugs are effective in some cases.

According to Dr. Raül Andero Galí, lead researcher in this study, «Once we discovered the relationship between the Ppm1f gene and different psychological disorders after exposure to traumatic stress, we wanted to find an effective drug to prevent these changes and its negative consequences on the brain.»