Sentences with phrase «greater use of drugs»

It could also lead to the development and greater use of drugs that can maintain constant levels in the body.

Not exact matches

CVS and Aetna argue that their deal will lower healthcare costs for employees of their large corporate customers, giving the company greater clout to negotiate down drug prices and better manage the use of those medicines.

However, it's far simpler to do consistent, smaller price hikes on drugs used by a far greater number of people in order to make up for revenue gaps.

If it works, it could be used in a far greater number of patients than Sarepta's drug, which is approved for a relatively small slice of the DMD patient pool.

Techniques for raising chickens without antibiotics are better developed than those for beef or pork, says Halloran, and the chicken industry has made great strides toward eliminating the routine use of the drugs.

In explaining the rationale of greater enforcement of federal marijuana laws, Spicer cited growing problems with other illicit drug use.

He isn't conservative, he is a drug using entertainer who does a great job at frightening and then reassuring a certain segment of the population.

At no point are they sickness» [«substance addiction begins as the sin of drinking or using drugs, progresses to the greater sin of excessive use (abuse), and ends as a sinful habit» — a view Clinebell attributes to rescue missions].

She asked for prayers for Woman at the Well, a small nonprofit she was starting for women to do what others had done for her — take them off the streets, out of prostitution and drug use and teach them about Jesus» great love for them.

In the earliest reference to his work on chiles, the American Journal of Pharmacy noted in 1911: «Wilbur L. Scoville presented a Note on Capsicum, showing the great variation in the strength of capsicum, and suggesting the possibility of the pungency of this drug being used as a simple test for quality.

He was also using a host of other drugs that helped with performance, all of which would be great for a UFC athlete: testosterone, other steroids, IGF, EPO, blood doping.

In this study, and in opposition to findings elsewhere, higher levels of social support were associated with greater depressive symptomatology, leading researchers to speculate that for low - income men the perceived costs of reciprocity may have deterred them from utilizing available support; or that peer groups may have influenced their alcohol or drug use, or placed demands on their resources (Anderson et al, 2005).

A new study in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Gynaecology confirms what many who have undergone a hospital birth already know: the use of the labor - inducing drug pitocin (synthetic oxytocin) leads to great pain and suffering, including serious adverse, unintended health effects to both mother and infant.

Their association opposed drug law reform because these minor crack possession cases in the «hood are easy wins and can be used to pander to the fear and prejudice of the great uninformed masses.

Brought up in a council house in North Kensington by his mother, Bailey is a co-founder of My Generation, a charity that encourages young people to take greater responsibility in tackling drug use and antisocial behaviour.

«We have seen an alarming trend in the rise in use of synthetic drugs, that cause just as great, if not greater, danger if people use them and get behind the wheel.

They add: «The greatest reduction in risk of developing metabolic risk factor clustering observed for intermediate levels of physical activity and leisure time sitting was unexpected and suggests that moderate amounts of both moderate - to - vigorous physical activity and leisure time sitting may be sufficient to protect against developing metabolic risk factor clustering over time... The lack of protection for the most active adults may reflect a chance finding, or confounding by other factors such as wider use of prescription drugs by participants in less active groups.

Using computer simulations to predict which drug candidates offer the greatest potential has thus far not been very reliable, because both small drug - like molecules and the amino acids of proteins vary so much in their chemistry.

The greatest safety concern relates to the large percentage of menopausal women who typically use CAM products concurrently with conventional medicine but who may be unaware of the possible herb - drug interactions.

These improvements, he said, resulted in a greater reduction in net use of blood pressure drugs and lipid - lowering medications in the liraglutide 3 mg group than in the placebo group.

The research by three criminologists in UT Dallas» School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (EPPS) discovered that students who were bullied in third grade did not have a greater risk of using drugs or alcohol by ninth grade.

The analysis found that statins were more likely to reduce the risk of death when LDL cholesterol levels were 100 milligrams per deciliter (mg / dl) or greater, whether or not they were used with other LDL - lowering drugs.

Dr Dusko Ilic, leader of the team at King's College London, says: «Our new method can be used to grow much greater quantities of lab - grown human epidermal equivalents, and thus could be scaled up for commercial testing of drugs and cosmetics.

The presence of antibiotics within the food chain is likely to increase as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has permitted greater use of controversial drugs on farm animals.

Analysis of the tumor genes affected by the two drugs revealed that cabazitaxel had a greater effect on cellular division and regulation of chromatin — a spool for DNA that helps control which genes are in use and when — whereas docetaxel has a greater impact on DNA transcription and repair.

As their novel technique for drug delivery is non-invasive and easy to use, the NUS team envisioned that the microneedles patch has great potential for applications in clinical and home care settings for the management of perioperative pain and chronic pain in patients suffering from conditions like diabetes and cancer.

«Patients who use certain types of coping strategies, such as denying the problem, blaming themselves for any difficulties or turning to drugs for comfort, face a greater risk of developing PTSD after TIA,» Utz said.

A disaster is looming in Cambodia and the rest of the Greater Mekong subregion: A deadly malaria parasite has become resistant to both drugs used in the so - called artemisinin combination therapy, raising the specter of untreatable malaria.

Eye injections of the drug Avastin, used to treat retinal diseases, bring no greater risk of endophthalmitis, a potentially blinding eye infection, than injections with the much more expensive drug Lucentis made by the same company, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

When adjusting for race, homelessness, low service connectedness, and greater use of prescription drugs, the lack of a primary care visit within two years of CRC screening eligibility independently predicted low screening.

The top five things (from a list of 16) that the public believes would improve people's health a great deal are: improving access to affordable healthy food (57 %), reducing illegal drug use (54 %), reducing air, water, or chemical pollution (52 %), increasing access to high - quality health care (52 %), and improving the economy and the availability of jobs (49 %).

That may be great if you are using carbon nanotubes to deliver chemotherapy drugs to people with brain tumors, as cancer researchers in California (at City of Hope, a cancer research and treatment center in Duarte in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena), hope to do.

Although doctors have long incorporated personal information like family history into treatment plans, personalized medicine holds the promise of revolutionizing medical care by using knowledge of molecular biology and genetics that will allow more precise diagnoses, better diagnostic tests, greater predictability of disease course, more successful therapies by targeting the right treatments to the right patients, and improved patient safety by selecting drugs and their proper dosage to reduce adverse side effects.

They also suggest that the true scope of the problem may be even greater, since NHANES excludes some groups at high risk of illicit drug use.

Aboriginal women and women who use injection drugs were also at greater risk of having HIV in pregnancy and had consistently lower rates of treatment.

A famous Danish study of neuropathy as a side effect to statin use concluded that an individual who is a long - term user of statin drugs has anywhere from 4 to 14 times greater risk of developing peripheral neuropathy than a person who does not take statin drugs.

A 2016 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows that while the number of teenage tobacco users has declined, the number of teenagers who use electronic cigarettes is greater than those who use conventional cigarettes.

Thus, teenagers are more vulnerable to addictive behaviors, and the impact of drug use on their brains is greater than for older adults.

The development of new methods that use engineered nanomaterials to transport drugs and release them directly into cells holds great potential in this area.

Dr. Jeffrey Blumer, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Center for Drug Research (the world's largest clinical research center for drugs) and former director of the Greater Cleveland Poison Control Center, has this to say about colloidal silver: «Common substances like table salt and aspirin are harmless with normal use, but excessive intake can become toxic and even life - threatening.

As a perfectly absurd example of how doctors have been wrongly influenced by the drug companies... about 8 years ago, I was a perfectly healthy 28 year old, in great shape, exercising daily, eating a balanced healthy diet full of antioxidants and quality nutrition, no smoking, and with no real risk factors for heart disease, and just because my cholesterol level has been consistently measured over 200 for my entire life, my doctor recommended I consider using a cholesterol lowering statin drug.

Detox water is a great example of how you can use natural ingredients to bolster health and promote a general feeling of wellbeing without the use of drugs or stimulants.

While nothing she's done suggests she will ever be a great actress, she's at least used her clout passably enough of late, sparing us of too many atrocities like Bride Wars, Valentine's Day, and Love & Other Drugs.

A Madea Halloween (PG - 13 for drug use, suggestive content, profanity, scary images and mature themes) Tyler Perry is back in drag for a madcap adventure which finds the sassy, pistol - packing granny protecting her great - niece (Diamond White) and friends from a combination of paranormal poltergeists, ghosts, ghouls and killer zombies.

We get great glimpses of Ronnie's peculiar sex life intertwined with drug - fuelled, homosexual orgies with politicians, but these scenes are merely used as comic relief before returning back to the match made in east end.

(b) For purposes of this subpart, a verified positive DOT drug test result, a DOT alcohol test with a result indicating an alcohol concentration of 0.04 or greater, a refusal to test (including by adulterating or substituting a urine specimen) or any other violation of the prohibition on the use of alcohol or drugs under a DOT agency regulation constitutes a DOT drug and alcohol regulation violation.

They include Malcolm, a light - skinned African American architect from a wealthy background; JB, an occasional drug - using artist of Haitian ancestry (the author does a great job of describing his art — no easy task); Willem, the handsome actor who, as we first meet him, is, of course, waiting tables downtown; and, at center stage, Jude.

Anti-inflammatory drugs and analgesics are frequently used at the outset but the greatest chance of success lies with surgery, particularly if performed early in the course of disease.

The most common use of the test is if a dog has an adverse reaction, and is found to carry the gene, then dosing with these drugs should be modified, or used with greater caution.

Using fun exercises that any dog can do, together we will train your pup to be a detection dog — except instead of finding drugs or bombs, they will find their favorite smelly treat (salmon jerky works great!)