Sentences with phrase «make effective drugs»

When diseases like cancer and AIDS are impacting millions of people each year and rare but deadly infections like Ebola are moving faster than treatment, the race to make effective drugs becomes a sprint.

Not exact matches

In the past few years companies like Braeburn Pharmaceuticals, Intarcia Therapeutics, and Proteus Digital Health have set out to create better medical mousetraps through devices that make existing drugs more effective.

But a nonprofit is making its own hepatitis C combination medication that it says is just as effective as those created by for - profit drug giants.

Regulatory authorities in the U.S. and Europe believe that real - world data can make the drug - development process more efficient and cost - effective, as well as help better inform patients and physicians about the uses of new products.

«The current messages saying that bed sharing is dangerous only if you or your partner are smokers, have been drinking alcohol or taking drugs that make you drowsy, are very tired or the baby is premature or of low - birth weight, are not effective,» the authors wrote in the study, adding that doctors need to «take a more definitive stance against bed sharing for babies under three months».

Drug companies used to stay one step ahead by continually introducing new medications, but bacteria have been mutating rapidly in response, making the drugs less effective.

As drug delivery via the lungs is generally more effective than some other methods, says Peace, vaping could make «already dangerous drugs even more dangerous».

The trial of nusinersen was stopped in August when it became clear it was effective, making it unethical not to give the real drug to those on the placebo.

«In fact, very little progress in finding more effective drugs for epilepsy has been made in the past 100 years.»

When administering SSRIs, the team saw that the drug first collected in the lipid rafts, and afterward, the critical GαS protein moved out of the rafts, freeing it up and making the protein more effective.

These «designer» peptides could one day make up a new class of therapeutic drugs that is more effective and results in fewer side effects.

Dr. McCabe said nanoparticles are a leading - edge technology also being studied for delivery of drugs for other conditions, such as cancer, heart disease, and bacterial infections, in order to target specific cells to reduce toxicity and side effects of those medications and to make them more effective.

This could make the drug effective against autoimmune disease.

As a result, infectious disease experts currently try to find a balance between making sure drugs are effective at knocking out harmful bacteria while keeping the treatment duration to the bare minimum required to stamp out an infection.

A panel of experts convened in 2007 by the prestigious Institute of Medicine estimated that «well below half» of the procedures doctors perform and the decisions they make about surgeries, drugs, and tests have been adequately investigated and shown to be effective.

Since cows are so good at making broadly neutralizing antibodies, it also might be possible to turn the cow's handiwork into drugs for HIV treatment, if bovine antibodies are effective at stopping the virus in other animals, he says.

«If we could load these virus shells with a different cargo, say a drug, and target it to a particular place in the body, such as a tumor, it could then deliver the drug to just that specific location, making the drug more effective, or reducing side effects,» Lawrence said.

A blood pressure drug may make a type of lung cancer treatment more effective, suggests a new study.

A key to the study is an understanding that using two, three or more antibiotics in combination does not necessarily make the drugs more effective in combating bacteria — in fact, in many cases, their effectiveness is actually reduced when drugs are used together — so the combinations must be chosen carefully and systematically.

To make a compound work better against a specific disease target, medicinal chemists optimize the drug, tweaking its structure or physical properties to make it more effective and safer.

«If we really want to make a difference,» Khatri said, «our test has to be more cost - effective than the drug itself.»

With the help of the diamonds, the drug stayed in the bloodstream 10 times longer than usual, making it much more effective.

Neural machine translation has been a latecomer to the game of deep learning, a method of making predictions about everything from effective marketing pitches to potential drug candidates.

Achim Harder, head of anthelmintic research at Bayer, the German company that makes praziquantel, says it is not clear why the drug is less effective in Senegal.

So Charlotte Willans from the University of Leeds, UK, and colleagues subjected silver to the same treatment as platinum to see if they could make an effective cancer drug.

They suggest that the frequent questioning of these drugs in media is unjustified and may make depressed patients refrain from effective treatment.

Poirier hopes that with further funding and support, his studies will lead to the development of drugs targeted to specific genotypes, making them safer and more effective and reducing side effects.

What's more, the women in both the heparin and control groups also received injections of the drug for 42 days after birth, potentially helping to protect them against blood clots that may manifest themselves at that point, but possibly diluting the results — making it appear that heparin was not as effective as it may have been.

In addition, «since no animal models of fibromyalgia exist, our model provides a much - needed tool for understanding what makes current fibromyalgia drugs efficacious and for finding more effective drugs,» the researchers wrote.

A: Yea, it's possible it could lead to that, but we need to recognize that these are effective drugs in treating short - term pain in particular, and we need to make sure there is an opportunity for people with pain to have opioids as part of their treatment.

«We hope to get initiatives like this all over the subcontinent, and they could all join together, and that would put pressure on the national governments to make the drug bans more effective,» says Chris Bowden, the Bangaluru, India — based program manager for Saving Asia's Vultures from Extinction, a consortium of conservation groups and government agencies.

To make things worse, no antiviral drugs currently available have proven effective against it, and because scientists do not know where the virus resides between outbreaks, environmental control is impossible.

Current antimalarial drugs are becoming less effective as the parasite develops resistance to the drugs, making the search for new targets that can kill all species of malaria critical.

To stop hepatitis C, any effective drug also had to incorporate itself into the virus's genetic code, where it would need to halt the virus's ability to make new copies of its genes and thus to make new virus.

Sentinel will treat the consumer market like one giant observational study to make sure the drugs are as safe and effective as believed.

This molecule plays an important role in some cancers and drugs that block it are already available to patients — but making drugs that are more effective and less damaging to healthy cells could lead to patients living longer and reduce side effects.»

«Not only is this new pathway exciting from a discovery perspective, it could ameliorate some of the side effects of cancer and cardiovascular drugs to make them safer and more effective.»

As a result, Shaw's team has begun another clinical trial with a more potent ALK inhibitor — LDK378, a drug made by Novartis — that might take over when Xalkori becomes less effective.

«Our research adds weight to the idea that effective antifungal drugs can target even those mitochondrial proteins that are highly conserved in humans and fungi, and that this could be a way to make a broad spectrum antifungal combination therapy that would be less susceptible to resistance,» says Benjamin Vincent, a former graduate student in Whitehead Member Susan Lindquist's lab who is now a scientist at Yumanity Therapeutics.

Or it could be that chance just happened to make drug A appear more effective in that trial.

One effective approach is to deliver drugs made from small molecules of ribonucleic acid, or RNA, which are used to inhibit gene expression.

The drug works by inhibiting replication of the hepatitis C virus; researchers noted that both hepatitis C and Zika belong to the same viral family and bore strong structural similarities that could make sofosbuvir effective against the latter.

As nanotechnology to ferry drugs to their destinations is tested in both the laboratory and in clinical trials, scientists have made a surprising discovery about the kinds of nanoparticles that might be most effective for eventually transporting a number of different cancer - fighting therapies throughout the body.

These compounds can make drugs more selective, effective, or potent.

Recently a series of drug recalls have pulled back the curtain to show how the media, the public, and some doctors can misinterpret medical studies or take them out of context in ways that make medical treatments look safer and more effective than they actually are.

Painkillers were not much better, and the most effective drugs made your patient exhausted and constipated.

When we go to the doctor, we assume that the drugs he or she prescribes have been carefully tested to make sure they are both safe and effective.

Discovering the structure of this enzyme will provide valuable insight into how this protein functions and could provide blueprints for designing drugs that inhibit or increase certain protein functions, which would make those drugs more effective.»

Highly dependent on their estrogen receptors for growth and survival, these tumor cells are sensitive to hormonal therapies, making drugs like tamoxifen and fulvestrant effective first - line therapies for many patients.

A new method has been developed to make drugs «smarter» using nanotechnology so they will be more effective at reaching their target.