Sentences with phrase «increasing use of these treatments»

Bacteria and other pathogens can develop resistance to drugs after repeated exposure, which means that increasing use of these treatments can actually make surviving strains stronger.

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But before his arrest, he said he'd use KaloBios as a vehicle to nab another niche drug, this time for treatment of the parasitic infection Chagas disease, and dramatically increase its price to the $ 60,000 to $ 100,000 range after helping it win FDA approval (the drug is approved in other countries and is provided to patients in the U.S. on a special and selective basis).

One hour of yoga increases levels of a neurotransmitter called GABA, which inhibits stress responses in the body and is even used in the pharmacological treatment of anxiety, depression and anger.

• Chemical pre-treatment: Mild caustic treatment, at an elevated temperature, is used for partial hydrolysis of hard - to - digest polysaccharides and proteins, increasing biogas yields.

It is a root vegetable that has a long history of medicinal uses including improved digestion, treatment for anemia, boosting the immune system and increased heart health.

With the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt's target for digital - led NHS treatment by 2018, there is increasing expectation on the sector to use technology, such as smart packaging, to address these issues.

This is mainly because more people are using fertility treatments, like drugs that spur the release of multiple eggs or in vitro fertilization, in which more than one embryo is implanted in order to increase the chance of a successful pregnancy.

While most multiple pregnancies conceived with fertility treatments are fraternal twins, the use of fertility treatment does increase your risk of having identical twins.

For men, symptoms can also include anger, loss of libido, engaging in risk taking behaviour, increased hours at work as part of withdrawal from family and increased use of drugs or alcohol instead of seeing treatment for depression.

• Addressing latch issues immediately to prevent nipple pain and early weaning • Differentiating between Raynaud's Phenomenon of the Nipple and Candidiasis as a cause of pain • Evidence - based treatment strategies for painful nipples • Lanolin use and possible increased risk of nipple or breast infection • Topical treatments used by mothers for nipple pain and trauma • Frenotomy to decrease breastfeeding difficulties due to ankyloglossia • Timing of frenotomy for improved breastfeeding and infant outcomes • Kinesio Elastic Therapeutic Taping ® in treating breast engorgement • Mothers» subjective experience of nipple pain and breastfeeding difficulties

While this fertility treatment does not necessarily increase the chances of multiple births, more and more parents resort to the use of this procedures and take fertility drugs to get conceive twins.

Often used as a natural alternative before pursuing expensive and intrusive fertility drugs and treatments, FertilAid for Women helps to balance your hormones, promote regular ovulation, improve your overall reproductive health and increase your chances of conceiving naturally.

Additionally, it encouraged the stakeholders to facilitate increased awareness and education about perinatal depression and to explore and encourage the use of prenatal screening tools in order to improve the availability of effective treatment and community support services.

To halt this trend, Governor Cuomo has implemented aggressive efforts, including changes in insurance to ensure coverage of substance use disorder treatment, increased access to treatment, additional treatment capacity in regions across the state, and comprehensive public awareness efforts.

Prominent police chiefs and prosecutors fear that the new administration is out of step with evidence that public safety depends on building trust, increasing mental health and drug addiction treatment, and using alternatives to prosecution and incarceration.

ScaleGard Pro H + water filters increase treatment capacity by using a modified resin which traps scale - forming minerals to prevent scale build up in the heating elements of vending equipment.

The increased survival rates are being attributed to early detection, greater use of specialist surgery, and advances in treatment and screening.

Assembly committees on health and corrections heard testimony on a number of issues pertaining to health in state prisons and local jails, including the treatment of HIV and hepatitis C, illnesses that have increased in correctional facilities with the rise in use of injectable drugs like heroin.

«She also has consistently voted in support of additional funding in Congress to fight the heroin and opioid epidemic, including supporting the Appropriations Bill signed into law last May that contained a $ 650 million increase in funding to address the prevention and treatment of opioid and heroin use,» said Tom Flanagin, the spokesman.

The Romans believed that the fumes produced by burning castoreum could induce an abortion, Paracelsus thought castoreum could be used in the treatment of epilepsy, and medieval beekeepers used it to increase honey production.

Despite emerging evidence of a decline in sperm quality with increasing age, an analysis of every first fertility treatment cycle performed in the UK using sperm donation shows that outcome in terms of live birth is not affected by the age of the sperm donor.

«Used in cancer therapy, this process could increase the impact of a treatment by heating the cancer cells while introducing the drug compound into the tumor.»

People with drug addictions who started opioid abuse later in life use injections for their drugs, or increased their use of downers before starting drug treatment, are more likely to relapse from treatment than others, says a new study from McMaster University.

The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is increasing for the treatment of menopausal symptoms but often without the guidance of a clinician.

«Countries using these measures should instead increase the availability of proven opioid - agonist therapies, such as methadone, and ensure there is adequate access to voluntary treatment programs in community settings and facilitate people with opioid addiction to seek treatment.»

Though Van der Baan noted that hydraulic fracturing has been in practice since the 1950s, it has come under increased scrutiny in the last handful of years due to both increased production as well as the use of the increased treatment volumes.

Page and his colleagues, who use animal models to understand how autism risk factors impact the developing brain and to identify potential treatments for the condition, have found that animals with mutations in the autism risk gene phosphatase and tensin homolog (Pten) mimic aspects of autism, including increased brain size, social deficits and increased repetitive behavior.

The National Institute of Drug Abuse has found that increasing access to medication assisted treatment decreases opioid use, deaths related to overdoses, crime and the transmission of diseases, Boyle said, though the approach is not being used enough.

«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.

U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell last year proposed a response, calling for a program to change doctors» opioid prescribing practices, to expand the use of naloxone, a drug used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdoses, and increase patient access to medication assisted treatments for opioid use disorders.

Michael Cotten, another neonatologist on the Duke project, analyzed the duration of antibiotic therapy given to 4,039 premature babies at 19 treatment centers across the country and found that prolonged use of the drugs is associated with increased risk of necrotizing enterocolitis and death.

«The CMA continues to recommend a broad public health policy approach focused on preventing problematic drug use; ensuring the availability of assessment and treatment services for those who wish to stop using; and harm reduction to increase the safety for those who are using.»

Visualization of computer model showing HIV risk behaviors; red dots are injection drug users that engage in needle sharing or unprotected sex; courtesy of Brandon Marshall / Brown University Condom use, earlier treatment and increased education have gone a long way to reducing HIV spread in the U.S.

Nine of these studies showed significant benefits of psychosocial interventions in patients being treated with methadone, including reduced drug use and increased treatment attendance.

«We show that these endosomal inhibitors, currently used in, for example, the prevention and treatment of malaria can be used to prevent metastasis of colorectal cancer, without increasing the toxicity of standard treatments.

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs), the most widely used drugs for the treatment of depression, have been reported to reduce bone formation and increase the risk of bone fracture.

Unlike with the treatment of back pain, researchers found no increase in the use of opioids or barbiturates, whose usage should be discouraged, although they were used in 18 percent of the cases reviewed.

Dr Jones, said: «This new meta - analysis shows that baclofen is no more effective than placebo on a range of key outcome measures, suggesting that the current increasing use of baclofen as a treatment for alcohol use disorders is premature.»

Examples include changing policies to encourage older adults to remain part of the workforce for longer (e.g., removing tax disincentives to work past retirement age), emphasising low - cost disease prevention and early detection rather than treatment (eg, reducing salt intake and increasing uptake of vaccines), making better use of technology (eg, mobile clinics for rural populations), and training health - care staff in the management of multiple chronic conditions.

This finding led the researchers to assume that in the future it may be possible for Oxytocin to be used as a psychobiological treatment option in couple therapy as it may increase positive communication behaviors among partners, particularly among couples where the husband suffers from PTSD, and thereby it may improve the quality of the couple's marriage — which is often impaired by the disorder.

The work, published in the March 15 issue of Nature, raises the possibility of probiotic, microbe treatments for plants to increase their efficient use of phosphate.

The best available data suggest that marijuana use is increasing in adults but not teens, with a decrease in marijuana - related arrests but an increase in treatment admissions, according to an update in the January / February Journal of Addiction Medicine, the official journal of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM).

Before treatment, both groups averaged a sexual satisfaction score of around 2 out of 10, but after treatment the group exposed to the bright light was scoring sexual satisfaction scores of around 6.3 — a more than 3-fold increase on the scale we used.

An increasing number of sewage treatment plants were built and the use of fertilizers in agriculture declined.

Remote eye tracking is easy to use with young children and our study shows that it has excellent potential to enhance identification and, because it is objective, may increase parents» acceptance of the diagnosis, allowing their children to get treatment faster.»

Introduction of 9 - 12 month courses of multidrug - resistant tuberculosis therapy will increase the effectiveness of treatment and reduce the total number of anti-tuberculosis drugs during the course of treatment and save funds that can be used to treat more patients.

Among cigarette smokers not willing or able to quit smoking in the next month but willing to reduce with the goal of quitting in the next 3 months, use of the nicotine addiction medication varenicline for 24 weeks compared with placebo produced greater reductions in smoking prior to quitting and increased smoking cessation rates at the end of treatment and at 1 year, according to a study in the February 17 issue of JAMA.

The goal is to increase the accuracy of branches which can be propelled, include a camera to collect information on the inside of the bronchi, develop functions applicable to biopsies and treatment, and put instruments to practical use.

«Cold water in the left ear significantly increased patients» insight and awareness of their schizophrenia, which we measured 30 minutes after the test, compared with the sham or placebo treatment using room temperature water,» says Dr. Gerretsen.

By using a more extensive mutation panel, the accuracy of genetic testing should be vastly increased for predicting optimal treatment decisions.