Sentences with phrase «fight against drug»

Despite reports about the devastating impacts of oil palm expansion on forests and indigenous peoples, the Peruvian government continues to promote oil palm development, supposedly as a viable economic alternative in the fight against drug trafficking, migratory agriculture, and poverty.

He adds that sniffer dogs are being used in Iran in the fight against drug trafficking.

Australian researchers have enlisted a long - overlooked antibiotic in the fight against drug - resistant «superbugs» (Credit: lightsource / Depositphotos)

Australian researchers have enlisted a long - overlooked antibiotic in the fight against drug - resistant «superbugs»

Scientists say they have powered up an old antibiotic to help in the fight against drug - resistant infections.

That's exactly the kind of machinery that scientists want to adopt in their fight against drug - resistant bacteria.

Duke University researchers have identified a single, simple metric to guide antibiotic dosing that could bring an entire arsenal of first - line antibiotics back into the fight against drug - resistant pathogens.

As the fight against drug - resistant infections continues, University of Leeds scientists are looking back at previously discarded chemical compounds, to see if any could be developed for new antibiotics.

Ulster County has a new designation that will allow it to receive federal assistance in the fight against drug trafficking and the heroin epidemic.

Through support from State Senator Kathy Young and Assemblyman Andy Goodell, Chautauqua County may be looking forward to new facilities for the fight against drug abuse.

Members of the clergy can many times be on the front line in the fight against drug addictions.

While Tolbert says Howard hasn't done enough, Howard says Erie County has been innovators in the fight against drug addiction.

«The NDLEA remains committed to the fight against drug cultivation, trafficking and abuse.

The issue is to see how shalom is tied into the fight against drug addiction, carnage on our highways due to alcoholism, ecology, commercial sex, oppression of women, racism and the whole range of evils that fills our news on the airwaves and in print.

«The magnificent work of the security forces and bodies in the fight against drug trafficking makes it possible for numerous seizures to take place,» Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido said.

In yesterday's Telegraph, drawing on the experience of Holland and Sweden, Iain Duncan Smith condemned the UK Drug Policy Commission's recommendation that the fight against drugs should focus on minimising its harmful side effects.

Not exact matches

Novartis's global head of drug development and chief medical officer, Vas Narasimhan, has a piece up on Fortune exploring the strides that have been made in the fight against malaria, including the development of an experimental Novartis treatment called KAF156.

«The government is too busy fighting against terrorism and the Taliban and is losing the battle against drugs,» he said in October, «but everything is interconnected.»

This means that in the global fight against malaria, we need to do everything we can to slow the rise of drug - resistant forms of the disease.

But these forces were not used at that time and were instead sent to northern Mexico to conduct operations against drug trafficking when the Mexican government started to work more closely with the United States to fight the so - called war on drugs.

That's why he had such productive relationships in the fight against violent criminals and drug gangs across a variety of administrations in City Hall and the State House.

In a bizarre irony, the players» union — Don Fehr and Gene Orza and the lot — which had fought ferociously against drug testing, failed to ensure that the results from a 2003 survey test remained anonymous.

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Residents can expect to see a decrease in taxes for the second year in a row and more funding for the fight against the county's growing epidemic of drug abuse.

While appreciating the General Overseer of RCCG Worldwide, Pastor Enoch Adeboye and his wife, Folu Adeboye for dedicating efforts and resources to treat and rehabilitate people who have gotten addicted to one form of drug abuse or the other through the centre, the Governor said it was inspiring and instructive that the duo and others behind the initiative thought it necessary to use the platform of the church to join in the fight against the social menace.

This was as he lauded RCCG and its leadership for deeming it fit to join the fight against the menace of drug abuse, just as he assured that the State Government would support the initiative to achieve the desired results.

People can anonymously dispose of those drugs from 10 AM to 2 PM in the continued fight against abuse and addiction.

The agency will not relent in the fight against illicit drug production, trafficking and abuse.»

Schumer called the bill a critical first step in the fight against heroin and opioids, expanding the availability of naloxone — also known as narcan — to law enforcement and first responders, improving prescription drug monitoring programs, shifting resources to identifying and treating incarcerated people suffering from addiction, and prohibiting the Department of Education from questioning students about prior drug convictions on financial aid forms.

As part of efforts towards involving Nigerian Youths in the fight against criminality, drugs, cultism and kidnapping, the Nigerian Police leadership has inaugurated Nigerian music crooner and «I don get alert»...

The Food and Drugs Authority says it will widen its wings in the fight against the abuse of Tramadol.

A commonly used anti-parasite drug could be the next weapon in the fight against malaria.

Preliminary results of the study were presented at a World Health Organization (WHO) evidence review group meeting, while UNITAID has issued a call for further research into the use of endectocide class drugs, of which ivermectin is currently the only one registered for human use, as new vector control tools in the fight against malaria and other mosquito borne disease.

This future drug is just one part of the fight against Zika.

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.

The fight against HIV / AIDS is costly, contentious and, for drug companies, a calculated risk.

The fight against antibiotic resistance seems like an uphill battle: Bacteria outsmart our drugs, and our slow discovery of new antibiotics can't keep pace with their constant evolution.

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.

Once again, researchers at Penn's Abramson Cancer Center have extended the reach of the immune system in the fight against metastatic melanoma, this time by combining the checkpoint inhibitor tremelimumab with an anti-CD40 monoclonal antibody drug.

For instance, one great recent advance in the fight against malaria is a drug called artemisinin.

Drug - smuggling nanoparticles could be the latest recruits in the fight against cancer.

Spain's top cancer scientist is fighting with the government over a plan to use private funding to develop drugs against lung cancer — and both parties have chosen the media as their battleground.

«Cellular system makes the battle against a rare disease personal: Scientists develop the first human stem - cell based system to find drugs to fight mitochondrial disease.»

Their study shows that the drugs are all but useless in the yearly battle against seasonal flu, while further deflating hopes they might be used to fight a pandemic.

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA — It's far from the ideal therapy, but scientists say a new combination of two old drugs is an important step forward in the fight against sleeping sickness, a long - neglected tropical disease.

Check out the 6 December print issue of Science for a news package on snakes, including more on the genomes, a story about efforts to develop drugs from venom, and a report about the fight against the invasive brown tree snake in Guam.

The studies support the concept of using natural exposure in combination with malaria - fighting drugs to help people build up protection against disease, says malaria vaccine researcher Robert Sauerwein of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center in the Netherlands.

Drs. Baughn and Minato hope that the understanding of mechanisms for synergy will lead them and others to more potent drug combinations that can be deployed in the fight against pathogenic microbes as drug resistance becomes increasingly commonplace.

A class of therapeutic drugs known as protein kinase inhibitors has in the past decade become a powerful weapon in the fight against various life - threatening diseases, including certain types of leukemia, lung cancer, kidney cancer and squamous cell cancer of the head and neck.

Checkpoint inhibitors are a class of drugs designed to free the body's immune system to fight back against cancer.