Sentences with phrase «more effective drug treatment»

The study proved that 3D printing could be used to personalize pills and that a future of more effective drug treatment with fewer side effects is possible, but printed pills will still be a few years off.

The interaction between academia and pharma is hugely beneficial and we hope it will lead to more effective drug treatments.»

A new insight into immune cells by scientists at The University of Manchester could lead to more effective drug treatments.

Not exact matches

So many companies have developed such increasingly effective medicines, such as those that treat more hep C strains with far shorter treatment regimens, that Gilead — a pioneer in the field with Sovaldi and Harvoni — is projecting $ 3.5 billion to $ 4 billion in U.S. sales from these kinds of drugs in 2018, a dramatic drop from nearly $ 13 billion in 2015.

The same outside adviser, who was unidentified in Tuesday's release, advised that a package of assistance programs to patients would: «force reporters to focus on the byzantine nature of drug pricing and health care and ensure the patient message gets out... specifically tie profits from Daraprim to the research and development of a new and more effective treatment for Daraprim patients.

Treatment is seven times more cost - effective than domestic law enforcement, ten times more effective than interdiction, and 23 times more effective than attacking drugs at their source.

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«So we will develop diversionary programmes to take users out of the criminal justice system altogether, ensure that those who need treatment get it, and find more effective ways to reduce or end their drug use.

«The development of effective treatment strategies requires a holistic understanding of drug actions, and now we can see much more clearly the serotonin - side of cocaine action.

Their approach, in which micro-liters of liquid containing a drug are instilled into the lung, distributed as a thin film in the predetermined region of the lung airway, and absorbed locally, may provide much more effective treatment of lung disease.

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

The finding, reported in July, shifts the focus of depression's source from neuron function to metabolism, which could lead to more effective diagnosis and drug treatments, Flint says.

The more accurate the structure, the better scientists can use it to create effective drug treatments without side effects.

Previous research has suggested that anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin used in conjunction with antipsychotic treatments may be more effective than just the antipsychotics themselves.

Detection of dementia at the earliest stages has become a worldwide priority, because drug treatments, prevention strategies and other interventions will likely be more effective very early in the disease process, before extensive brain damage has occurred.

New pharmacological approaches to target these changes will provide much needed and more effective treatments to reduce the power of drug - related associative memories that drive opiate addiction.

As a result these patients are being treated with antipsychotic drugs while an alternative treatment would be more effective.

This webinar will focus on how rewiring of signaling pathways in response to drug treatment contributes to resistance and how this knowledge can be leveraged to develop more effective treatment strategies.

The shorter, safer and more effective antifungal drug regimen treats cryptococcal meningitis with a one - week combination antifungal regimen of amphotericin B and flucytosine for the initial induction phase of treatment.

During the study, the participants were observed while on highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART, which normally consists of three or more drugs and is currently the most common — and most effective — treatment for HIV - positive adults.

Although there remains no cure for Alzheimer's, researchers hope that testing potential drugs or therapies prior to mental decline will prove to be more successful than previous attempts at finding the most effective treatment in the battle against the debilitating disease.

The treatment was even more effective when combined with celecoxib, a COX - 2 non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug already approved for treating some forms of arthritis and pain.

Stem cell treatments for chronic wounds could be more effective if patients simply took anti-inflammatory drugs during treatment.

«At Exeter we are already developing specific psychological therapies, running clinical trials of novel drug approaches and using - cutting edge genetic techniques to identify new targets for safe and effective therapies and to allow us to use current treatments in a more focussed way.»

«Our study on the TACC3 - chTOG interaction will allow cellular biologists and researchers on microtubule dynamics to better understand how microtubule assembly is regulated during cellular division,» says Montoya, and he anticipates that «it could also help in developing new anti-microtubule drugs, providing more effective therapeutic options in cancer treatment.»

Professor Dive added: «We propose that this drug will be most useful in this subset of patients who have elevated MCT1 levels and need more effective treatments.

In an animal model of AML, treatment with a combination of FLT3 - and SYK - inhibiting drugs was significantly more effective than treatment with either drug alone.

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.

Researchers at University of Florida Health have discovered the mechanics of how dopamine transports into and out of brain cells, a finding that could someday lead to more effective treatment of drug addictions and neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease.

The anti-vascular endothelial growth factor drugs ranibizumab and aflibercept, used to treat vision loss from diabetic macular edema (DME), and approximately 20 to 30 times more expensive than bevacizumab, are not cost - effective for treatment of DME compared to bevacizumab unless their prices decrease substantially, according to a study published online by JAMA Ophthalmology.

Treatment success rate of drug - resistant tuberculosis in HIV - positive patients is low and requires more effective regimen using new drugs compatible with antiretroviral therapy.

Although ultimately destined for the clinic, the technology looks likely to move quickly into use within clinical trials, as it can enable more effective monitoring of the impact of new drugs and treatments.

Even once a drug makes it to late - phase clinical trials, patients must be followed for several years, or even a decade or more, to determine whether the new treatment is more effective than current treatments.

deCODE's genetic research is aimed at identifying the genetic factors involved, as a means of identifying new drug and diagnostic targets that can target the underlying cause of disease and point the way towards more effective treatment and prevention strategies.

While laser treatments based on work pioneered at Joslin in the 1960s have helped to minimize this damage, injecting a drug called ranibizumab can be more effective, according to results from a major clinical study by the Diabetes Retinopathy Clinical Research Network (DRCR.net) announced today.

Yes, nanotechnology is becoming ubiquitous in our daily lives and has found its way into many commercial products, for example, strong, lightweight materials for better fuel economy; targeted drug delivery for safer and more effective cancer treatments; clean, accessible drinking water around the world; superfast computers with vast amounts of storage; self - cleaning surfaces; wearable health monitors; more efficient solar panels; safer food through packaging and monitoring; regrowth of skin, bone, and nerve cells for better medical outcomes; smart windows that lighten or darken to conserve energy; and nanotechnology - enabled concrete that dries more quickly and has sensors to detect stress or corrosion at the nanoscale in roads, bridges, and buildings.

The co-delivery of small molecular drugs with nucleic acids can improve gene transfection efficiency, reduce side - effects of these drugs, and achieve the synergistic effect of drug and gene therapy for the more effective treatment of cancer.

In order to make use of this integrative and effective approach to depression, we need to free ourselves from myths that limit our options, myths that may make us unnecessarily fearful of not taking drugs, and keep us from pursuing what may be a more successful treatment strategy.

-- Diet as a treatment for my problems has been much more effective than any of the 20 different drugs I have been prescribed... for mental and physical problems.

Natural thyroid drugs contain natural forms of the thyroid hormones T4 and T3, as well as other co-factors, and some patients and practitioners find them more effective than the conventional hypothyroidism treatment, levothyroxine (a synthetic form of the T4 hormone.)

Other herbal treatments have arguably proven more effective, such as boswellia and curcumin, with the ability to reduce pain and the need for prescription drugs.

Following treatment, drug therapy maintained at home often becomes drastically more effective, said Vigani.

Understanding how cancer cells hijack and block drugs from reaching their targets will help researchers develop more effective treatments for this difficult - to - treat cancer in dogs.

«Non-custodial community sentences such as unpaid work, supervision, behaviour programmes, drug rehabilitation, alcohol treatment and curfews are often more effective in preventing reoffending than short prison sentences.

Wayne found the medical cannabis to be a more effective treatment than previous drugs.

Research indicates that marriage and family therapy is as effective, and in some cases more effective than standard and / or individual treatments for many mental health problems such as: adult schizophrenia, affective (mood) disorders, adult alcoholism and drug abuse, children's conduct disorders, adolescent drug abuse, anorexia in young adult women, childhood autism, chronic physical illness in adults and children, and marital distress and conflict.

In heterosexual couples in which men are entering outpatient treatment for alcoholism or other drug abuse, behavioural couples therapy was more effective than individual based therapy for improving the psychosocial functioning of their children.

An alternative or adjunct to such matching is to combine various treatment modalities into one comprehensive programme, a technique that has been found to be more effective in treating drug abuse than single treatment modalities.2 Finally, as the authors observe, treatment retention remains a critical issue.

In other studies, MFT was found to be more effective than standard individual treatments for emotional problems such as mood disorders, depression, alcohol and drug abuse, and trauma (e.g., PTSD).

Research indicates that marriage and family therapy is as effective as, and in some cases more effective than, standard and / or individual treatments for many mental health problems such as: adult schizophrenia, affective (mood) disorders, adult alcoholism and drug abuse, children's conduct disorders, adolescent drug abuse, anorexia in young adult women, childhood autism, chronic physical illness in adults and children, and marital distress and conflict.