Sentences with phrase «more deadly drugs»

These substitute drugs can also attach to opioid receptors in the brain, blocking access to other, more deadly drugs.

Not exact matches

Immunotherapy differs from more traditional cancer treatments, such as surgery (cutting malignant cells out of the body), chemotherapy and radiation (poisoning the deadly mutants), and even the newer, more precise molecular drugs that attempt to jam the protein signals that tell tumor cells to keep dividing and conquering.

AMATA, Mexico (Reuters)- Farmers growing marijuana in remote Mexican mountains are adopting techniques pioneered in the United States to produce more potent pot and boost profits from the cash crop that is fueling a deadly drug war.

Broome County Executive Debbie Preston said, «Heroin has become the drug of choice and is becoming more deadly than any other drug we've seen, especially to our young people.

More than 400 Westchester students gathered in October as part of Project WORTHY's Youth Summit at the Westchester County Center where keynote speaker and Olympic coach Tony Hoffman warned students about how prescription drugs found in a medicine cabinet led him down a near deadly path of addiction, crime and prison, before he started his journey to recovery.

However, the BCG vaccine was developed 86 years ago, and TB, with increasing drug resistance, now kills more than 1.5 million people each year, second only to HIV / AIDS as the world's most deadly infectious disease.

In the meantime, Merck spent $ 100 million a year on consumer advertising for the drug — more than Pepsi spent for its cola — and published more company - funded studies that obscured potentially deadly side effects.

Scientists at Rutgers University have developed a targeted drug delivery system that they believe could make ovarian cancer more treatable and increase survival rates for the most deadly gynecological cancer in the United States.

They will then test whether the potential drug targets they discovered in this study would be relevant for this more deadly cancer.

The letter advocates additional research including â $ œgain - of - functionâ $ experiments: identifying what changes to naturally occurring viral strains would make them more transmissible, deadly, or drug - resistant in mammals.

Tumor - targeting nanoparticles loaded with a drug that makes cancer cells more vulnerable to chemotherapy's toxicity could be used to treat an aggressive and often deadly form of endometrial cancer, according to new research...

TUESDAY, April 25, 2017 (HealthDay News)-- America's prescription drug abuse epidemic may be even more deadly than expected, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests.

For example, the superbug MRSA, which can cause hard - to - treat skin infections, appears to contaminate approximately 5 % of U.S. retail meat; mysterious skin hives or allergic reactions may be a sign of alpha - gal meat allergies; a lack of safety thresholds in U.S. meat for drug residues, toxic metals, and pesticides can potentially result in jaundice and skin cancer; a case of Vitamin A poisoning from fish actually resulted in one man experiencing such serious peeling of his skin it took more than three months to heal; using tanning beds instead of natural sunlight or supplements to get Vitamin D is linked to an increased risk of the deadliest kind of skin cancer; milk consumption has been associated with increased acne risk; and low antioxidants levels in the skin may correlate with the development of wrinkles.

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Deadly pimps, pedophilic snuff film makers, Russian mafia hit men, crooked cops, drug - crazed hookers and more are what he finds as he makes his escape, and still he would gladly face all of them rather than be home with his cranky, physically abusive stepfather.

More than three hundred years before the invention of anything remotely resembling either modern refrigeration or miracle drugs, the humble fruit, dried and grated, was prized (correctly) for keeping meat from rotting, and (wrongly but understandably) as a poultice for warding off the Plague, a.k.a. the Black Death, which had wiped out a full third of Europe's population and was still at its deadly work.

Read on in Generation Rx for: — exclusive interviews with the strategists, scientists, and current and former heads of GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Merck, Roche, and more — a first - ever, inside look at the rollicking business story behind pharma's rise to power — the dramatic effects our drug culture is having on our major organs, from the liver to the heart to the brain — why old bodies and young bodies are the biggest, and riskiest, arenas for our great American prescription pill party — how the largely uncharted terrain of polypharmacy (various drugs taken together) has unleashed unanticipated, often deadly, consequences on unwitting patients Generation Rx will make every American who has ever taken a prescription drug look anew at what's in our medicine cabinets, and why.

Why do drug companies say that the older a dog is, the more its immune system is wearing out and therefore, it should be vaccinated more frequently than younger dogs??!!!? To the veterinary college student I say that is exactly the kind of deadly policy that «appalls and disturbs» knowledgeable dog owners!

Smaller dogs are more likely to develop bacteria and infection when given the drug making it deadly for them.

Morris Animal Foundation has awarded more than $ 400,000 in grants to fund research into three deadly feline infections and drugs formulated for two other feline conditions.

The best - selling drug known as Rimadyl ®, which has enjoyed remarkable success as an anti-inflammatory medicine for pets, has been found to be deadly for some dogs, as witnessed by the FDA receiving more than 6,000 bad reaction reports about the drug manufactured by Pfizer.

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