Sentences with phrase «hasten drug»
For example, this approach may hasten drug development for debilitating conditions such as the neurodegenerative disease ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease).
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Among the grab bag of goodies in the pharma - backed 21st Century Cures Act, which is meant to hasten FDA drug approvals, is a provision that would essentially remove the agency from the mobile health app and electronic medical records regulatory process.
The density of the patient's skin and muscle slows the drug's progress, allowing it to be dispersed throughout the body in a wide spiderweb pattern, thereby hastening its effect.
Its drug Niraparib kills cancer cells by inhibiting the production of proteins called PARPs, which help repair damaged DNA strands, thereby hastening the death of some types of cancer cells.
The drug is expected to hasten recovery from the condition, allowing people to return to work or school more quickly.
His health deteriorated, hastened by drug and alcohol abuse, and he died in 1927.
He's also likely to spur the FDA to follow the course laid out by agency cancer czar Richard Pazdur in speeding new approvals, possibly setting up a special unit aimed at orphan drugs to hasten OKs with smaller, better designed clinical trials.
«The over-prescribing of anti-malarials puts evolutionary pressure on the malaria parasite that risks hastening its resistance to artemisinin - based combination therapy — the frontline drugs used to treat malaria in Africa,» Stoler said.
The mechanism is known as NMD (nonsense - mediated mRNA decay), and scientists found that exposing breast cancer cells to a molecule that inhibits NMD prior to treatment with doxorubicin, a drug used to treat leukemia, breast, bone, lung and other cancers, hastens cell death.
Meanwhile, the inaccuracies and sensationalism of the mainstream media in its approach to reporting on drugs can only hasten its already diminishing relevance to the generation that is more likely to trust what it reads on Twitter and Facebook.
Drugs aimed at quelling the behavior problems of dementia patients may also hasten their deaths more than previously realized, a new U-M study finds.
Yin's work builds on earlier work identifying an experimental drug called ZF143 that hastens the rate of tissue repair in damaged heart and limb tissue.
A large proportion of these preventive, or prophylactic, prescriptions also were for broad - spectrum antibiotics or combinations of antibiotics, or were for prolonged periods, which can hasten the development of antibiotic - resistant bacteria and drug - resistant infections.
Some politicians have called for: Congressional hearings on the escalating pricing, an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, and action by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to increase competition by hastening approvals of competitors» products, the AP reported.
When You're Strange (R for sexuality, nudity, profanity and drug references) Johnny Depp narrates this rockumentary recounting the meteoric rise and just as fast fall of The Doors, a talented quartet whose premature demise was hastened by the untimely death of its charismatic lead singer, Jim Morrison.