Sentences with phrase «for deadly drug»

Prescription drug errors, including failure to check for deadly drug interactions and failure to provide needed medication at the appropriate times

Finally, consider the case of Michael Freeland, who had a forty - three - year history of depression and suicide attempts, and yet the physician who prescribed for him the deadly drug did not deem it necessary to refer him for psychiatric evaluation.

Her request for the deadly drug was initially refused by her own physician and by a consulting psychiatrist, since both thought her request was motivated by clinical depression.

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Johnson & Johnson has been jockeying to snap up Actelion, Europe's largest biotech and a maker of drugs for the deadly heart and lung condition pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).

Culiacán (Mexico)(AFP)- Amid a bloody dispute between rival drug gangs battling for control, the Mexican state of Sinaloa has just seen its deadliest weekend in years with at least 30 people killed.

Genervon is on the lookout for pharma partners to help advance its GM6 drug, which takes aim at a range of deadly diseases hitting the central nervous system

And as for «an innocent neighborhood getting any of a number of deadly and painful health problems», what do you call gangs, drugs, and street level violence?

There are those, for example, who are deadly frightened by the awesome growth in drug use among high school and even younger students, and by the easy availability of pornography for young people.

A typical drug dose for a breastfeeding mother could be deadly for her infant.

President Trump traveled to the first - in - the - nation primary state of New Hampshire to rail against drug dealers responsible for the deadly opioid epidemic devastating the US, vowing «tough action» including the death penalty.

Pills laced with the deadly drug fentanyl that were made to look like Oxycodone have been found in Buffalo for the first time, prompting an urgent alert from the state Attorney General's office.

PLEASANT PLAINS — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday announced his support for a plan to close a loophole that allows drug dealers to stay a step ahead of law enforcement as they tweak the formula to a deadly synthetic opioid to avoid harsher sentencing.

Eleven forms of fentanyl, a powerful and deadly opioid, should be added to New York's controlled substance list to boost enforcement, and insurance companies should be forced to reimburse first responders for higher doses of the anti-overdose drug naloxone, Cuomo proposed.

Eleven forms of fentanyl, a powerful and deadly opioid, should be added to New York State's controlled substance list to boost enforcement, and insurance companies should be forced to reimburse first responders for higher doses of the anti-overdose drug naloxone, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo proposed Thursday on Long Island.

It is time to stop treating marijuana like a deadly drug, when science and public opinion agree that it is relatively safe for adult recreational use.

Maureen Boyle, chief of the Science Policy Branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Edward Bilsky, a professor of pharmacology and the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Neurosciences at the University of New England, showed how opioids can commandeer the brain's natural systems that control pain and reward, and trigger a vicious response cycle that can diminish the pain - relieving power of medications, prompt users to reach for increasingly larger quantities of opioids and lead to deadly overdoses.

UT Southwestern Medical Center cancer researchers have identified a protein critical to the spread of deadly cancer cells and determined how it works, paving the way for potential use in diagnosis and eventually possible therapeutic drugs to halt or slow the spread of cancer.

Immunotherapy is a promising approach in the treatment of metastatic melanoma, an aggressive and deadly form of skin cancer; but for most patients, immunotherapy drugs so far have failed to live up to their promise and provide little or no benefit.

DIPG is the most deadly brain tumor in children and currently there are no approved drugs for treating it.

In the meantime, Merck spent $ 100 million a year on consumer advertising for the drug — more than Pepsi spent for its cola — and published more company - funded studies that obscured potentially deadly side effects.

Bone marrow transplants can cause deadly immune reactions, turning the decision to proceed into a perilous judgment call; HIV patients are better served with today's drug cocktails unless they need the transplant for another disease, experts say.

Such knowledge is crucial for designing future drugs or vaccines to prevent this deadly disease.

There are currently no vaccines or drugs approved for human use and no post-exposure treatment that has completely protected nonhuman primates against MARV - Angola, the most deadly Marburg viral strain, with a mortality rate of up to 90 percent.

An experimental drug that protected monkeys from the deadly Marburg virus appears to have potential for treating people who have been exposed to the virus, according to a study published in the July 23 edition of The New England Journal of Medicine.

«Having cops carry naloxone can be a critical effort in addressing overdose fatalities in some areas,» he said, «and represents a general shift in policing the nation's drug problem away from incarceration, which has proven expensive, ineffective, and deadly for far too many people.»

The study, which appears August 3 in the peer - reviewed journal Nature Communications, showed that pairing the chemotherapy with an experimental drug eliminates the deadly population of cells believed to be responsible for repopulating the tumor.

If this combination of drugs proves effective, we may be able to improve outcomes for this deadly disease.

The FDA needs to move beyond its traditional focus on clinical studies about drug effectiveness and side effects, and to seek public health data on potential abuse, the Academies advises in its 400 - page proposal for targeting the deadly issue.

«Drug trial shows promise for deadly neurological disorder: Cyclodextrin slows progression of Niemann - Pick type C.» ScienceDaily.

Scientists at Rutgers University have developed a targeted drug delivery system that they believe could make ovarian cancer more treatable and increase survival rates for the most deadly gynecological cancer in the United States.

According to CDC official Phillip Nieburg, the Thai data show that HIV - positive pregnant women who got a daily dose of AZT for just 3 to 4 weeks before giving birth were far less likely to transmit the deadly virus to their child than were those who received no drug.

Sun lamps and tanning beds are legal for adult use in all 50 states, even though the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classifies them as a Class 1 carcinogen like tobacco, radon, and arsenic, and the use of tanning beds has been linked to melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.

Through the serendipity of science, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have discovered a potential treatment for deadly, drug - resistant bacterial infections that uses the same approach that HIV uses to infect cells.

A patent application for a drug that could destroy the deadly childhood disease known as acute lymphoblastic leukemia — and potentially other cancers as well — has been submitted by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, the University of Maryland and the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

An ethics panel at the World Health Organization (WHO) has given a green light to treating Ebola patients with experimental drugs for the deadly virus.

A new population - based study has found that patients with glioblastoma who died in 2010, after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of bevacizumab, had lived significantly longer than patients who died of the disease in 2008, prior to the conditional approval of the drug for the treatment of the deadly brain canDrug Administration (FDA) approval of bevacizumab, had lived significantly longer than patients who died of the disease in 2008, prior to the conditional approval of the drug for the treatment of the deadly brain candrug for the treatment of the deadly brain cancer.

The botulinum toxins are among the deadliest substances on Earth, and two specific toxins — including the popular drug Botox — have multiple uses for treating many neuromuscular conditions, including frown lines, disabling muscle spasms and migraine headaches.

Berkeley Lab researchers have developed a new family of nanocarriers, called «3HM,» that meets all the size and stability requirements for effectively delivering therapeutic drugs to the brain for the treatment of a deadly form of cancer known as glioblastoma multiforme.

Mealey, a veterinarian and pharmacologist at WSU's College of Veterinary Medicine, will receive a 2013 Women to Watch in Life Science Award for identifying why certain dog breeds suffer deadly drug reactions while others do just fine — and then doing something about it.

They will then test whether the potential drug targets they discovered in this study would be relevant for this more deadly cancer.

Many existing treatments for malaria - one of the deadliest infectious diseases - target only one stage of the complex life cycle of the Plasmodium parasite that causes the disease, and are further limited by the emergence of drug resistance in particular strains.

For the first time, scientists have identified an existing drug that slows the growth of the deadliest childhood brain tumor.

NEW YORK, NY — March 25, 2011 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today its approval of a new treatment for advanced melanoma, the deadliest and most difficult - to - treat form of skin cancer.

TUESDAY, April 25, 2017 (HealthDay News)-- America's prescription drug abuse epidemic may be even more deadly than expected, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests.

For example, the superbug MRSA, which can cause hard - to - treat skin infections, appears to contaminate approximately 5 % of U.S. retail meat; mysterious skin hives or allergic reactions may be a sign of alpha - gal meat allergies; a lack of safety thresholds in U.S. meat for drug residues, toxic metals, and pesticides can potentially result in jaundice and skin cancer; a case of Vitamin A poisoning from fish actually resulted in one man experiencing such serious peeling of his skin it took more than three months to heal; using tanning beds instead of natural sunlight or supplements to get Vitamin D is linked to an increased risk of the deadliest kind of skin cancer; milk consumption has been associated with increased acne risk; and low antioxidants levels in the skin may correlate with the development of wrinklFor example, the superbug MRSA, which can cause hard - to - treat skin infections, appears to contaminate approximately 5 % of U.S. retail meat; mysterious skin hives or allergic reactions may be a sign of alpha - gal meat allergies; a lack of safety thresholds in U.S. meat for drug residues, toxic metals, and pesticides can potentially result in jaundice and skin cancer; a case of Vitamin A poisoning from fish actually resulted in one man experiencing such serious peeling of his skin it took more than three months to heal; using tanning beds instead of natural sunlight or supplements to get Vitamin D is linked to an increased risk of the deadliest kind of skin cancer; milk consumption has been associated with increased acne risk; and low antioxidants levels in the skin may correlate with the development of wrinklfor drug residues, toxic metals, and pesticides can potentially result in jaundice and skin cancer; a case of Vitamin A poisoning from fish actually resulted in one man experiencing such serious peeling of his skin it took more than three months to heal; using tanning beds instead of natural sunlight or supplements to get Vitamin D is linked to an increased risk of the deadliest kind of skin cancer; milk consumption has been associated with increased acne risk; and low antioxidants levels in the skin may correlate with the development of wrinkles.

Common treatments such as anti-inflammatory drugs (ibuprofen or aspirin), or steroids like prednisone, though often useful for acute problems, interfere with the body's own immune response and lead inevitably to serious and deadly side effects.

And yet conventional treatment for diabetes now includes tacking on yet another potentially deadly drug as early as possible... It is truly insane.

Told in riveting detail by the women who were able to escape Sowell's deadly clutches, «Unseen» draws viewers into a world where marginalized women, plagued by drug use, shunned by society and dismissed by the police, became easy prey for a predatory monster.

More than three hundred years before the invention of anything remotely resembling either modern refrigeration or miracle drugs, the humble fruit, dried and grated, was prized (correctly) for keeping meat from rotting, and (wrongly but understandably) as a poultice for warding off the Plague, a.k.a. the Black Death, which had wiped out a full third of Europe's population and was still at its deadly work.

But as you might expect, the demand for jade is enormous, and drugs are formulated that allow anyone to use it, if they're willing to risk the potentially deadly side effects.