Sentences with phrase «effects of medication used»

Common side - effects of medication used to treat heart failure and / or abnormal heart beats due to DCM:

Muscle pain is therefore not a symptom of asthma, although it is a rare side effect of some medications used to treat asthma.

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NEW YORK (Reuters)- A new class of blood thinners that competes with widely used warfarin should get a boost next year when an «antidote» that can reverse the medications» effects in an emergency is expected to enter the market, according to top U.S. heart doctors and investors.

However, always make sure that the medication is child - friendly; your best bet would be to ask his or her pediatrician first to make sure that it's safe to use, as well as to learn of possible side effects; there's no point in replacing one problem with another!

If you want to try the effects of fenugreek, remember that it is advisable to use non-pharmaceutical methods first to increase your milk supply, since herbal products, like other medications, may have significant side effects.

These physicians specialize in young children and are aware of the effects of psychiatric psychological techniques could be used before or in conjunction with medication.

«Since some supplements may have side effects, may affect other medical conditions, or may interact with prescription medications, Theralogix nutritional supplements are recommended for use under the supervision of your healthcare provider.»

These questions pertained to the length of time they breastfed, use of any medications and / or tobacco during the period they breastfed, whether they supplemented with formula feedings, and whether they had noted any adverse effects in their infants while breastfeeding or after weaning.

Some parents are resistant to using a stimulant because they don't want their child to be a «zombie,» but it is important to remember that these are unwanted side effects and can usually be treated by lowering the dosage of medication or changing to a different medication.

Psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis can also place people at risk of side effects from the long - term use of medications such as steroids and injectable medications.

Most of the medications that are used with children to date, only cause minimal side effects (e.g., stomach distress, headaches) that decrease after a few weeks of being on the medication (e.g., Black and Uhde 1994; Dummit et al. 1996).

There were also dangerous side - effects to scopolamine (mainly hemorrhaging and transference of medication to the newborn), hence it became an unpopular method of pain relief and its phasing out made way for the most common and effective pain relief in labour and childbirth that is still used today — the epidural.

Choose an obstetrician or health care provider Interview potential doctors Contact health insurance company about coverage Start and pregnancy and birth budget Discuss financial effects of pregnancy and baby with partner Stop smoking Stop drinking Stop using street drugs Talk to your physician about any prescription medications Drink at least 8 glasses of water every day Visit the doctor at least once per month or every 4 weeks Do not dye or perm hair Stop drinking coffee and other caffeinated beverages Exercise daily Start taking prenatal vitamins Eat foods rich in folic acid Eat iron rich foods Increase daily intake of whole grains, fruits and vegetables Nap as much as possible as fatigue is common Eat fish with low levels of mercury no more than 2 days per week Do not eat undercooked meats Do not eat unpasteurized dairy producs Do not eat cold cut deli meats Allow someone else to clean out the kitty litter, if applicable Limit exposure to chemicals Try to limit stress and tension Complete all prenatal tests — HIV, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Anemia, Blood Typing, Sickle Cell Anemia, Urine Screening and Rubella.

Some researchers believe that it may be a combination of novocaine with other drugs used in labor and delivery such as pain medications and not effects of the anesthetic.

More providers will be trained and authorized to prescribe buprenorphine, a medication that treats opioid analgesics use, and pharmacies across the city will offer naloxone, which can reverse the effects of opioid overdose, without a prescription.

Also at 6 p.m., state Sen. David Carlucci hosts a free training on how to administer Naloxone, a medication used to block the effects of an opioid overdose, Pearl River Library, 80 Franklin Ave., Pearl River.

To fill this gap, Antoon and his colleagues in the UIC College of Pharmacy retrospectively studied the association between the use of Tamiflu — the only commercially available medication approved by the FDA to treat the flu — and the most consequential of those reported side effects: suicide.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration originally approved the drug in 1999, but subsequent case reports of abnormal behavior in adolescents who used the medication led the agency in 2006 to require that all packaging of the drug include a warning label about potential neuropsychiatric side effects, such as hallucinations, delirium, self - harm and even suicide.

The researchers found an overall increase in melanoma risk among men who used PDE5 inhibitors, but they hypothesized that if a cause and effect exists, higher use of erection medications would be associated with higher risk of developing the disease.

«When one considers the modest decrease in risk of adverse outcomes associated with the use of a number of widely used medications such as anti-cholesterol drugs, the effect sizes seen in this study are really impressive,» said Dr. Memtsoudis.

Placebos are used to help accurately measure clinical responses / outcomes when studying the effects of medications, therapies, and other treatments.

U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell last year proposed a response, calling for a program to change doctors» opioid prescribing practices, to expand the use of naloxone, a drug used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdoses, and increase patient access to medication assisted treatments for opioid use disorders.

«Our study shows that a PAM enhances the effects of these pain - killing chemicals without producing tolerance or decreased effectiveness over time, both of which contribute to addiction in people who use opioid - based pain medications,» said Andrea G. Hohmann, a Linda and Jack Gill Chair of Neuroscience and professor in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences» Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, who led the study.

Use of melatonin and other herbal remedies may be perceived as safer, but less is known about their potential side effects and they are not subject to the FDA's approval process for medications, says Malani.

«Furthermore, given the continued use of psychotropic medications in very young children and concerns regarding their effects on the developing brain, future studies on the long - term effects of psychotropic medication use in this age group are essential.»

«Drug used to combat pain medication side effects may help with gastrointestinal recovery: May shorten length of hospital stay following testicular cancer surgery.»

New research conducted at the Center for Tuberculosis Research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine shows that lower doses of the toxic drug bedaquiline — given together with verapamil, a medication that's used to treat various heart conditions — can lead to the same antibacterial effects as higher toxic doses of bedaquiline.

The researchers add, «Our results warrant attention to the increased risk of adverse medication effects occurring with the increased use of both opioids and hypnotics in the recovery phase.»

Doctors and first responders already use medications to combat the effects of opioids, including the high and the slowed breathing of an overdose.

The 8 % of Americans who report never using over-the-counter medications for cold or flu symptoms and the 20 % of Americans who have used alternative medicine instead of conventional treatment are more concerned about the risk of side effects from the MMR vaccine.

Researchers all over Europe are working on alternatives to animal testing that can be used to evaluate the adverse side - effects of medications.

In the case of opioids, these deaths often are preventable with the use of naloxone, a medication that quickly reverses the potentially fatal effects of opioids.

«Future research is needed to examine parent and clinician management of licensure decisions and crash risk among patients with ADHD, elucidate sex - specific mechanisms by which ADHD influences crash risk to develop countermeasures, and examine real - world effectiveness of medication use and detrimental effects of distractions,» the article concludes.

The finding held even after the team took into account the effects of age, race, obesity, physical activity, smoking, alcohol consumption, medication use and chronic diseases.

The study, published in the July issue of the journal Epidemiology, offers benefits over typically used randomized clinical trials, as such studies are often too small to identify rare side effects or may be performed in a group of patients who do not take other types of medications or have other conditions that could skew the drug's effect in a broader group following approval.

Medications to block interferon gamma and its effects are already being used in humans, and Professor Pinschewer is hopeful that the results of the present study will contribute to the repurposing and successful use of these drugs in the treatment of hemorrhagic fevers.

Paschou's team found no evidence of any detrimental effects of osteoporosis medications on glucose metabolism, but a possible beneficial effect with the use of bisphosphonates — medications used to help prevent the loss of bone mass and treat osteoporosis.

Scientists have long known about the potential environmental effects stemming from the use and disposal of products aimed at keeping people healthy and clean, but with roughly seven in 10 Americans owning at least one pet, animal medications and other care products are slowly beginning to move into the spotlight too.

«This is an important step in understanding a medication class, that is used with increasing frequency, and its effect on children who are at a critical time for building their bones,» said senior study author Jessica Rivera, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon with the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research.

Among the 3604 patients using prednisolone, there was no difference in medication possession ratio of acetylsalicylic acid (analysis of healthy adherer effect)(eFigure 3 in the Supplement; P =.91) between patients with or without alendronate treatment.

Heart specialists have used the test, known as carotid intima - media thickness, or CIMT, for more than a decade in large research studies to monitor the effects of exercise, diet or medications on the progression of atherosclerosis.

Dr. Parsons embraced a heuristic framework for the etiology of addiction that follows a trajectory from intermittent drug use motivated by hedonic effects to more frequent episodes of excessive drug intake that ultimately lead to a state of dependence, in which drug consumption is motivated by negative reinforcement (i.e., self - medication or the «staving off» of the negative consequences of withdrawal).

A fragment of one of the proteins that cancer cells use to exert the clotting effect, called TFPI2, could be used to antagonize blood clotting  therapeutically, they write in Cancer Research. The findings could also have implications for understanding the effects of current medications, such as the angiogenesis inhibitor bevacizumab, also known as Avastin.

This information has then been used to test various medications and also look at the effect of different interventions that can influence this PPI.

The data measured changes in opioid use, quality of life, medication classes used, and side effects before and after using cannabis.

Treatment goals emphasize using the minimum amount of medication necessary to achieve satisfactory control, and monitoring status on an ongoing basis to minimize side effects.

The most profound effect of stem cells in the meantime could be to screen new drugs for safety and to gauge a medication's effectiveness on real human tissue without using patients as guinea pigs.

Drug Labels FDA drug labels contain the name of the particular symptom, disease, or subset of patients within a disease that the drug is approved to treat, along with instructions for using the drug properly (including the dosage and what to do when a patient misses a dose), a description of any special instructions for taking the drug (such as with food or water), storage instructions, the symptoms of side effects to the drug, the names of any conditions or foods the patient should not have while using the medication, any warnings or precautions, any risk of drug tolerance or dependency, and a list of drug ingredients.

But more docs, frustrated with the handful of U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-- approved weight - loss drugs with inconsistent results, are prescribing medications that are used to treat everything from depression to seizures — all with the side effect of weight loss — to help patients drop pounds.

Considering there are more than one of these medications which can have this effect, you should first consult with your doctor or pharmacist on whether you should use them.