Sentences with phrase «instead of giving the drug»

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Instead of giving a cancer patient a cocktail of 15 drugs as is done now, doctors could print 15 tumours from a biopsy and determine which one is most effective before issuing a prescription to the patient.

The suit contended that the companies did so by inflating the published average wholesale price of the drug, giving free samples to doctors knowing they would charge patients and insurers for them, and giving incentives to doctors so that they would prescribe Lupron instead of less costly alternatives.

Jesus would do the following (in the U.S.A.): medicare for all, legalize all drugs, legalize gay marriage, destroy the wall between the U.S.A. and Mexico and consequently give the U.S. border patrol agents something useful and productive to do, end U.S. military aggression around the world, direct election of U.S. presidents, the national initiative for democracy, urge Christians to be more productive on Sundays instead of seeing who can wear the nicest clothes to church.

The MLBPA would surely fight this, given Hamilton has not had five separate occurrences with drugs of abuse during his time as a major - league player, and from a more humanitarian standpoint, it's hard to see Baseball trying to force Hamilton out when they could attempt to rehabilitate him with a structured program during another, shorter suspension instead.

«When you see someone who's homeless, keep in mind it's not necessarily like the movies, that there's mental illness or cause of drugs, there could be a lot of reasons, and instead of looking as we sometimes do, we look away from them, we look down at them, instead look at them like anyone else and just say «hope you have a good day» and «hope you're alright» and give them that encouragement that they're going to be okay because that little thing may be the thing that gets them to the next step, that helps them get to that next interview, that next opportunity, or even to come in to an organization and say I need help,» said Vasquez.

When the Legislature rolled back the Rockefeller Drug Laws in 2009, judges were given discretion to send non-violent offenders to drug treatment instead of prison without the prosecutor's approDrug Laws in 2009, judges were given discretion to send non-violent offenders to drug treatment instead of prison without the prosecutor's approdrug treatment instead of prison without the prosecutor's approval.

In a double - blind study, the participant may come to realise that he or she has been given the drug instead of placebo because of the experienced side effects, and this may in turn result in increased expectations of improvement and a better effect is reported.

To prevent this, health experts say that instead of «monotherapies,» new drugs should always be given in combination with other, existing drugs, which makes it harder for the parasite to elude them.

Unfortunately, attention doesn't equal expertise: An investigation from the U.S. Government Accountability Office published this past May found that sales staff at herbal - supplement retailers often gave incorrect or even potentially harmful advice, such as saying it was safe to take an herb - and - drug combination that could increase one's risk of bleeding or telling a customer they could take a supplement instead of a doctor - prescribed medication.

We are instead given a number of impressive, but token flashy performances by veteran actors in tough guy bit parts (Pete Postlethwaite and Chris Cooper as irredeemable lifelong criminals) and newcomers in «dramatic stretches» (The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner who is good (again) but not as great as the star - makers would have you believe, and most notably, Blake Lively, excellent as a drug - addled neighborhood floozy).

They used a new drug pre-op (Propofal instead of Ket / Valium, which is more common), then gave her a pain patch, and pain meds.

A short while after childbirth in an NHS hospital, Mayra Cabrera died of a heart attack, caused by mistakenly being given the drug Bupivacaine intravenously, instead of the similarly styled saline drip.