Sentences with phrase «increased doses»

Yes, certain brands of birth control pills can be used in increased doses as emergency contraception.

Her patients learned to recognise the patterns of numbers as she gradually increased their doses.

6 - shogaol is 10,000 times more effective than increased doses of Taxol at eliminating cancer stem cells, keeping healthy cells alive, and stemming the formation of tumors.

And even if there is generally an improved understanding of God, to say that this is because of a progressive divine revelation rather than because of our own increased understanding through the years is tantamount to saying that our earlier ignorance is God's fault for not revealing more sooner, It hardly seems necessary to blame human ignorance on a divine coyness, or to picture God rationing out carefully increased doses of self - revelation.

And so increasing doses of austerity were administered while the debt grew larger, forcing creditors to extend more loans in exchange for even more austerity.

Again Hartshorne, having conceded that, relatively speaking, molecules are mindless, denies that they (or their constituents) are totally lacking in experience and continues: «the panpsychist... further will not admit that the lower degrees of awareness are due to the dilution of mind by its mixture with increasing doses of another something, matter» (BH 170).

Like a narcotics addict, he has to keep increasing the dose to get his kicks.

The patient may be given increasing doses of the food or placebo and is closely monitored throughout this process.

I've been taking Zoloft for two weeks now (a very low dose since when I tried to increase the dose, I started having insomnia, which was absolutely counterproductive) and haven't noticed any good benefits yet, but my psychiatrist said it can take 2 - 6 weeks or even as many as 8, so I'm trying to be patient.

I wondered if my anxiety would get worse if I was pregnant and if I would need to go off my medication or increase my dose.

Start with small sips and if the child does not vomit again, increase the dose of the clear liquid by 1 floz for each hour he does not vomit.

In case of such remedies, start in a small amount and increase the dose little by little.

Often waiting or increasing the dose may help.

You may need to increase the dose of your detergent, add a water softening agent to make your detergent more effective, or select a different detergent (such as Tide or another mainstream offering).

Then, slowly increase your dose until either you smell of maple syrup or you're taking three capsules three times a day.

Breastfeeding might have a prolonged protective effect by influencing the severity, including hospital admission and frequency, of common infectious diseases.8, 38 However, immunologic evidence of a prolonged protective effect of increased dose and duration of breastfeeding has not been well established.

Stanke - Labesque, F., Moliere, P., Bessard, J., Laville, M., Vericel, E., and Lagarde, M. Effect of dietary supplementation with increasing doses of docosahexaenoic acid on neutrophil lipid composition and leukotriene production in human healthy volunteers.

I had incompetent docs who wouldn't increase the dose of zantac or change meds and no guidance other than deal with a crying baby.

Increased the dose then told the doctor and she agreed.

That's the key to knowing if the dose is right, so if you take it and you do not smell like maple syrup, you may want to consider increasing the dose.

Maybe she figured / hoped it would be okay to increase her dose.

«Short - term increases in inhaled steroid doses do not prevent asthma flare - ups in children: Findings challenge common practice of increasing doses at early signs of worsening symptoms.»

The animals» baseline pain threshold had changed, and the effect was something more than tolerance, in which the body requires increasing doses of a drug to get the same effect.

«In an earlier phase I clinical study, our group has shown that increasing the dose of radiation delivered daily with high precision and using image guidance may offset the need for chemotherapy in improving survival, and it may also improve quality of life measures by reducing treatment periods in half.

This means we have to keep increasing the dose of Bti to kill mosquitoes, so that this biological substance, too, is beginning to harm the environment.

To overcome the decreased positive effects, users increase the dose, which creates a behavioral spiral.

Over the course of 12 weeks, the study participants were given Epidiolex in gradually increasing doses.

To produce the required water solubility, an increased dose of the active substance and transporter medium is required.

Weil himself ingested it (snufflike, between the cheek and gum) almost daily during his three - week stay with the Cubeo and found it «tasty and pleasantly stimulating, [but] I developed no craving for it, no desire to increase the dose, and no sense of becoming tolerant to the effect.»

Nearly a third of Americans suffer from chronic pain, yet the most effective pain relievers — opioids — are addictive and often require increased dosing to maintain efficacy.

Although the prevailing winds are blowing the bulk of radio isotopes from the plant out over the Pacific Ocean, periodic changes in weather patterns are dumping fallout inland, increasing the doses that residents receive.

Inpatient costs for health services related to blood pressure or cardiovascular issues averaged $ 1,731 for patients on fixed - dose combination, compared with $ 2,985 for patients on decreasing doses of their medication, $ 7,076 for patients who switched to a new blood pressure drug and $ 7,692 for patients on increasing doses.

The authors suggest that for the future «A more complete clinical analysis should entail follow - up for at least 2 or 3 years and with an increased dose range; such a design presumably would reveal the impact of dose on both acute and late RT - related toxicity and thereby strengthen the associations observed in this analysis of acute effects.»

Writing in a linked Comment, Dr Pratik Choudhary from King's College London, UK, says,» OpT2mise provides a compelling case for the clinical effectiveness of insulin pump treatment in type 2 diabetes, suggesting that it can help improve glycaemic control in this difficult to treat group of patients who are unable to achieve glucose control despite increasing doses of insulin.

«When the patient increased her dose later on, the acute liver injury was superimposed on chronic liver disease, resulting in complete liver failure.»

«We found that U.S. physicians tended to have a lower threshold for beginning treatment and were more willing to increase the dose or add other medications when patients did not respond,» said lead author, Richard Wang, MD, PhD, a resident in internal medicine at Temple University Hospital.

«It allows us in future studies to increase the dose and alter the schedule of the vaccine to further optimise it.

Previous research into fighting allergies involved exposing people with peanut sensitivity to increasing doses of peanut flour, but that approach is only effective as long as people keep dosing themselves.

(A-C) Rag1 - / - splenocytes were pretreated with (A) either lethal toxin (LeTx, lethal factor + protective antigen) or lethal factor (LF)(1 μg / ml) or (B) increasing doses of lethal toxin or (C) with enzymatic mutant toxin (E687C) for 3 hr followed by IL - 23 (50 ng / ml) stimulation for 18 hr.

To assess the sensitivity of other JAK1 mutation - positive cell lines to JAK inhibition, we performed a proliferation assay with increasing doses of INCB018424.

There are two parts to this study: - Phase Ib: To determine the safety and side effects of increasing doses of IL - 2 in combination with pembrolizumab - Phase II: Once the maximum tolerated dose of IL - 2 is determined, additional patients will be treated to determine if it is effective against the cancer.

A trial of 3 to 6 months at an increased dose (e.g. 20 mg / wk) is suggested.

Phase I Trials initial studies to determine the safety and pharmacologic actions of drugs in humans, and the side effects associated with increasing doses; in some cases can also be used to gain early evidence of effectiveness.

However, Grams said, «We found there was an increasing risk associated with an increasing dose.

Behaviors like doctor shopping or frequent visits to the ED [emergency department], or increasing the dose during pain flare - ups without permission.

This is no cause for alarm, however; simply back off from the herb a bit until bowels normalize and then increase the dose slowly over time.

Gradually increase the dose until you go once or twice a day.

If you find that you have no problem with an increased dose, you can double that amount.

One option may be to increase your dose of over-the-counter medicine, Dr. Fonacier explains.

Once the symptoms have been gone for a few weeks, try to slowly increase the dose again until you eventually reach the daily requirements.