Sentences with phrase «high number of drug»

ORLANDO — Overprescribing of opioid medications for pain has contributed to a record - high number of drug - related deaths in the United States in recent years.

Overprescribing of opioid medications for pain has contributed to a record - high number of drug - related deaths in the United States in recent years.

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The media love drone heroics, and Aeryon's flying robots have starred in a number of high - profile nail - biters: guiding a rescue mission to frozen Alaska; assisting in a drug bust in Central America; helping natural disaster victims in the Philippines and Nepal.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wasn't resting on its laurels in 2017: The agency under new commissioner Scott Gottlieb approved 46 new medicines — i.e., completely new therapies, not just additional indications on already - approved drugs — the highest number of approvals in more than two decades.

The extreme violence, high number of abortions, and criminality associated with drug cartels prompted the church to carry out this unique kind of exorcism.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has said that almost nine percent of Israelis use cannabis, though some Israeli experts believe the numbers are higher.

For patients younger than 60, with a comparably high number of comorbidities, female patients have less diagnoses but take more drugs than males.

As I've said a number of times before, my goal with The Cannabist — distilled into one sentence — was to create something that avoided the blind activism of High Times and completely ditched the prohibitionist Drug War narratives that had been reported so many times before in mainstream media outlets.

However, seeing a high number shouldn't be all that surprising, especially since almost half of the companies the biotech fund holds don't even have a drug on the market yet, so profits could be a long ways away — and this is just the nature of the industry.

The number of teenagers who are experimenting with illicit se / x, drugs, or both is extremely high.

We have the highest percentage of «Christians» in this nation with the largest prison population, the larger number of drug users and that is a nation divided over religion because of god fearing Christians who believe in this wondrous loving god that gives little girls cancer to test the faith of her parents as they watch her dying.

The high rise in the number of multiple births was also caused by the use of ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology) and fertility drugs, which help women conceive.

Eventually, along the legalisation process, Iran's high number of death sentences, which is a principle side - effect of the country's war on drugs, would be almost nullified.

A spokesman stressed that the government's strategy on crime «is making a difference», telling politics.co.uk that the number of people entering and staying in treatment was higher than ever before, and insisting drug - related crime was falling.

The commander listed Owerri North, Owerri West, Ahiazu Mbaise, Mbaitoli, Ikeduru and Okigwe as the local government areas in the state with highest number of arrested drug dealers.

Treatment with the diabetes drug liraglutide, in combination with diet and exercise, led to a significant reduction in weight and improved a number of cardiovascular risk factors, including high blood pressure and high cholesterol, according to a multicenter study.

The results had high statistical significance, and Baeten said both drugs worked «comparably» in uninfected men and women, although he would not specify the number of infections by gender in different arms of the study.

They found that the phages from antibiotic - treated mice carried significantly higher numbers of bacterial drug - resistance genes than they would have carried by chance.

In this review, Professor Barbara Demeneix and colleagues at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris - Sorbonne, examine published evidence of the wide variety and high number of EDCs, from pesticides to chemicals used in the manufacture of drugs, cosmetics, furniture and plastics, that can all interfere with TH.

However, high rates of multidrug - resistant (MDR) TB and TB affecting vulnerable populations, such as the homeless, drug and alcohol abusers and migrants from countries with high numbers of cases TB continue to challenge TB elimination.

And Story number 4: Consuming a high - fat diet can pose a heavy additional risk for users of the drug ecstasy.

Robert Beall becomes CEO of the CFF and, grasping the limitations of gene therapy, invests $ 3.2 million in Aurora Biosciences Corp., where cell physiologist Paul Negulescu begins to look for a chemical cure using high - throughput methods to test large numbers of potential drugs.

«Few of those drugs have become extensively used in practice for a number of reasons, including their higher cost, and many are still not covered by insurers,» he says.

Our plant technology allows us to provide a cost - effective production solution for drugs needed in large quantities due to the number of people affected by disease and / or high dosage requirements.

High gene copy number variation (CNV) among membrane - bound transporters, a class of proteins previously implicated in drug resistance, was found for the most highly differentially expressed genes.

To understand the selection mechanism behind mutations, network - based studies were used to estimate the importance of a mutated protein compared to non-mutated ones in signalling and protein — protein interaction networks.10, 11,12,13 Proteins mutated in cancer were found having a high number of interacting partners (i.e., a high degree of connectivity), which indicates high local importance.10 Mutated proteins are also often found in the centre of the network, in key global positions, as quantified by the number of shortest paths passing through them if all proteins are connected with each other (i.e., they have high betweenness centrality; hereafter called betweenness).11, 12 Mutated proteins also have high clustering coefficients, which means their neighbours are also neighbours of each other.10, 13 Moreover, neighbourhood analysis of mutated proteins have been previously successfully used to predict novel cancer - related genes.14, 15 However, to the best of our knowledge, no study has concentrated particularly on the topological importance of first neighbours of mutated proteins in cancer, and their usefulness as drug targets themselves.

In Australia, steroids have become the drug of choice for many young people and the number of national steroid seizures and arrests has risen to record highs in the last few years, while a large part of the steroids are being made locally.

Interestingly, the risk increased in proportion to the number of courses of antibiotics a person was prescribed; the drug metronidazole, which is a broad spectrum antibiotic that disrupts flora, had the highest association with celiac disease.

Yet the drugs have been prescribed to that population in very high numbers (in June 2005, as I've reported before, the International Review of Psychiatry estimated that the total amount prescribed in the U.S. alone has been to upwards of 67.5 million people, almost one quarter of the general population).

Because my BS numbers are still high (ranging from an average of about 11.5 mmol fasting to around 12 daytime, but it has also gone under 9 fasting and 10 daytime on a few rare occasions), my doctor has recommended I restart Metformin and add a secondary drug after a few weeks.

An FDA advisory committee will meet this week to review data from clinical trials of the experimental diabetes drug dapagliflozin, which have revealed an unusually high number of users who developed bladder cancer or breast cancer.

Now I day trade and that is stressful for me too: — RRB - I would like to hear from any MD's or other people with knowledge of high cholesterol causes and ways besides statin or other drugs to lower the numbers.

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Drug - related arrests have contributed to staggeringly high growth in the numbers of incarcerated black men.

But amid the gloomy news that 30 percent of all cancer deaths in this country can be linked to smoking, the Surgeon General reported one «encouraging trend»: An annual survey conducted by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan for the National Institute on Drug Abuse has found that the number of high - school seniors with a daily cigarette habit has dropped from 29 percent...

Luckily, consumers will earn almost 50 per cent more points — so 15 points — for every dollar spent at Shoppers Drug Mart locations to help account for the higher number of points needed for each redemption level.

To qualify for Federal financial aid students must: - Be a U.S. citizen, a U.S. national, or an eligible non-citizen-Have a valid Social Security Number - Have a high school diploma or GED - Be registered with the U.S. Selective Service (if you are a male age 18 to 25)- Not owe refunds on any federal student grants - Not be in default on any student loans - Have not been found guilty of the sale or possession of illegal drugs during a period when you received federal student aid.

Yes, but consumers will earn 50 percent more points for almost every dollar spent at Shoppers Drug Mart locations to help account for the higher number of points needed for each redemption level.

Prednisone, and drugs like it, cause fluid retention, liver changes and a number of other undesirable side effects if they are used too frequently and in too high an amount.

The hemodialysis and hemoperfusion filters are capable of removing a number of different drugs at speed far higher than the body or any other therapeutic intervention.

Prednisone, and drugs like it, also cause weight gain, fluid retention, liver changes and a number of other undesirable side effects if they are used too frequently and in too high an amount.

But there's a hospital; a number of excellent restaurants including a gourmet organic bistro; a fancy polo club where you can enjoy mimosas and watch a game over brunch; a community arts centre that received equipment and training from the Cirque de Soleil whose founder has a house here; a turtle conservation project; music festivals during the high season; ibogaine clinics that treat drug addicts with a African plant medicine; a skate park; an excellent multi-lingual folky band that plays every week at a bar serving both excellent pizza and gourmet teas; and the town attracts all sorts of creative, interesting people — surfers, dancers, writers, artists, musicians, yoga teachers, hippies.

A high number of hit and runs are alcohol or drug related, which sends a clear message to all pedestrians and safe drivers to be on the lookout at all times to avoid the following:

During those eight years, he tried a large number of felony cases, including prosecutions for murder, manslaughter, armed robbery, sexual assault, kidnapping, and high - end drug sales.

The numbers document an incredible waste: - more than $ 1 trillion of taxpayer earnings wasted -37 million people incarcerated (and many more innocents» lives destroyed because of that) for nonviolent drug offenses - rate of drug use by high -LSB-...]

The plaintiffs are primarily women, who are at higher risk than men of developing diabetes from taking Lipitor, which is the number one prescription drug of all time.

He has been the lead attorney in a number of high - level felony cases, including defense of murder, vehicular homicide, rape, and drug trafficking charges.

successfully representing a number of pharmaceutical companies in a series of separate High Court proceedings brought by Chemistree Homecare alleging that conditions attaching to the supply of drugs infringed EU rules on competition / the supply of pharmaceuticals

These previous actions include, but not limited to, getting a high number of traffic tickets, accidents, and or driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Named «Rookie of the Year» in 2014 for highest number of traffic citations and drug / DUI arrests by a first - year officer.