Sentences with phrase «find effective drugs»

The tests are based on research conducted by Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) investigators — and could pave the way for a more precise approach to cancer therapy and help find effective drugs when conventional approaches to precision medicine have failed.

«We need to do everything we can to find effective drugs against the Zika virus, as changes in travel and climate have caused more tropical diseases to move into new parts of the globe,» said Kao, who has also spent 15 years studying the virus that causes hepatitis C.

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.»

«We thought they'd realize we've found an effective drug for treating an underserved group with a high mortality rate from heart disease,» Cohn says.

Not exact matches

A small 2006 study found ginkgo was as effective as the drug donepezil for boosting attention and memory in people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's.

Last week, IBM announced that many of its U.S. workers who have cancer will be able to use the supercomputer to find the most effective drugs beginning in 2017.

Beginning in January 2017, IBM employees in the U.S. will be able to use Watson supercomputer technology to help find the most effective oncology drugs and clinical trials for their specific cancers, IBM announced.

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.

And Valeant's round - about method of funding research, if that's what it's actually doing, seems a lot less cost effective, with all of the bankers and lawyers and hedge fund managers taking chunks of deals than if drug companies directly devoted a portion of their sales toward finding new drugs.

I find it funny that these religious organizations buy hospitals and use what drugs scientist have deemed effective.

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.

By accelerating promising drug candidates through the drug discovery and development pipeline and spearheading innovative public - private partnerships, we increase the chance of finding an effective treatment, and a cure, for Alzheimer's disease.

Charlotte's family tried to help her with pharmaceutical drugs, but found they were only effective for so long before the seizures would come back, hundreds per week.

The FDA has not approved these drugs for children under a year old because no studies have found them effective in that population.

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.

«So we will develop diversionary programmes to take users out of the criminal justice system altogether, ensure that those who need treatment get it, and find more effective ways to reduce or end their drug use.

To be effective and reduce recurrence of cancer in the prostate, researchers found that prescribing PARP inhibitors, a drug commonly used in breast cancer, alongside anti-hormone therapy treatment may benefit men with prostate cancer.

«In fact, very little progress in finding more effective drugs for epilepsy has been made in the past 100 years.»

«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.

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.

Ubogu says the findings are very exciting, as they provide knowledge of leukocyte trafficking in human nerves, but more work needs to be done in affected patients to develop an effective drug.

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.

«All we had to do was find a drug that was safe and effective in alleviating the type of pain that we're interested in.»

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.

Not all chemotherapy drugs are equally effective for all people, and finding the best treatment for an individual is a painful process of trial and error that wastes time and exposes patients to toxic side effects.

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.

Canada's program that aims to prevent pregnancy in women who use the powerful acne drug isotretinoin (Accutane) is not effective, found a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

«We found that the protein isoforms expressed in African Americans with prostate cancer do not always respond to targeted therapies, whereas these drugs were found to be effective in European Americans with prostate cancer and do end up killing off the cancer,» said Lee.

Earlier this month, a network of researchers supported by the National Eye Institute (NEI) found that the drug Lucentis (ranibizumab) can be highly effective for treating proliferative diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that can occur as a complication of diabetes.

«Genes may cause tumor aggressiveness, drug resistance in African - American prostate cancer: Research found many targeted therapies for prostate cancer may not be effective against tumors in African - American men.»

We're unlikely to invent effective smart drugs, but you can do more with what you have — by finding effective ways to work smarter, for one thing

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.

«I doubt a single drug will ever work in this cancer, so it is a matter of finding which drugs in combination are going to be most effective,» says Dr. Smallridge.

Among the three - drug combinations, the researchers found two that were noticeably more effective than they had expected.

Even if a pigmentation - stimulating drug is found to be safe and effective in people, it would likely not be a substitute for sunscreen, Fisher says.

The finding, reported in July, shifts the focus of depression's source from neuron function to metabolism, which could lead to more effective diagnosis and drug treatments, Flint says.

Drug classes found to meet «Level A» criteria in the study (established as effective for treating acute migraine) included triptans, dihydroergotamine (DHE), many NSAIDS (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), butorphanol nasal spray, and the combination medications sumatriptan / naproxen and acetaminophen / aspirin / caffeine.

«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.

«Unsuspected characteristics of new cystic fibrosis drugs found, offering potential paths to more effective therapies.»

«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.

The immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab — already FDA - approved for other forms of cancer - has been found to be effective in patients with metastatic triple negative breast cancer, according to an international clinical trial led by NYU Langone's Perlmutter Cancer Center.

After further screening, three drugs, trifluoperazine, an antipsychotic, doxapram, a breathing stimulant, and amoxapine, an anti-depressant, were used in a mouse model and were found to be effective in treating plague.

Nevertheless, he says, the finding suggests that drugs that block the cell - division pathway will be an effective treatment for NF - related leukemia and potentially for other disease complications.

«Our research also shows that existing drugs can be repurposed to treat other diseases and once several potential drugs are found, we can redesign them to be more effective in combating their targeted diseases while reducing the side effects.»

If the findings hold up in people, researchers may have found a way to treat a large swath of tumors that has lacked effective drugs.

«For example, we found that highly aggressive ovarian cancer cells are glutamine - dependent, and in our laboratory studies, we showed that depriving such cells of external sources of glutamine — as some experimental drugs do — was an effective way to kill late - stage cells.

Herceptin was an «astonishingly effective... wonder drug», enthused the media, while doctors talked of «revolutionary», «stunning», «jaw - dropping» findings.

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.

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

Given the progressive nature of MS, the debilitating nature of fatigue, and the lack of effective fatigue drug treatments that work for the majority, such findings are encouraging and important.