Sentences with phrase «more powerful drug»

According to pharmacological epidemiologist Dr. Mahyar Etminan, who is affiliated with the University of British Columbia, one reason for this is that some doctors opt to prescribe a more powerful drug when a much milder one is even warranted.

This new more powerful drug heralds the start of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART)-- a combination therapy regimen using a «cocktail» of drugs

The rise of bacteria resistant to antibiotics has left researchers scrambling to develop more powerful drugs.

Yet, lately, the last couple of decades, it's been going up, because we've been using more powerful drugs and surgical procedures to deal with the consequences of our diet, of obesity, of insulin resistance.

As we discussed in a previous episode of HPAY, antibiotics and their devastating cousins the «HIV antiretrovirals» take us into bacterial resistance and dependence on ever more powerful drugs.

Not exact matches

These devices dispense a drug called buprenorphine — itself an opioid, but one that doesn't produce the sort of euphoric and addictive high that more powerful painkillers such as OxyContin and morphine do.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

«Fuel theft just makes these groups more powerful,» according to one senior official from the US Drug Enforcement Administration, who asked not to be identified.

Since fentanyl is so much more potent than other opioid painkillers, drug traffickers only need to pack their drugs with small amounts of it to provide users a powerful punch.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP)-- Some of the pills taken from Prince's estate in Paisley Park after his death were counterfeit drugs that actually contained fentanyl — a synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin, an official close to the investigation said.

«I think it's fair to say that Mexican drug cartels are the most powerful drug - dealing groups in the United States,» Campbell added, «except that their effect is more indirect and delivering drugs to the street dealers.»

More likely, she was just skittish about the fact that her husband, Joaquín Guzmán, is the C.E.O. of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, a man the Treasury Department recently described as the world's most powerful drug trafficker.

But instead of prescription pills, they often receive the even - more dangerous heroin and, more recently, synthetic fentanyl — a drug 15 times more powerful than morphine.

Once more, the use of powerful drugs to cure disease may, while serving this wanted end, also have deleterious genetic effects.

Every since mankind has been as the Apostle described us in his epistle (Again, 2 nd Timothy 3:1 - 5; see also what Jesus said in Mark 7:20 - 23), the only thing that has «advanced «at our hands is our architecture, our technology, and our search for medicinal cures for what ails us.No one is denying that we've done tremendous good with these various advances, but we've also done awful, vicious, horrendous atrocities and brutalities as well.I've heard it quoted that out of all the centuries, millennia that we've considered ourselves «civilized», we've had only a few hundred years where something approximating peace has held sway among us.So again, I'm all world seeking to «make the world a better place», as it were; I just believe that mankind in his present moral, ethical, and spiritual configuration is capable of doing so.We can always enhance out technological prowess, improve our architechural designs, and make our drugs more powerful, but what about our hearts?

«Modifications in diet and exercise are more powerful than any drug.

In fact, most conventional wisdom suggests that legalization actually makes illegal drug cartels less powerful because more legitimate businesses will be able to enter the market.

The drug is considered particularly dangerous because it is more powerful than morphine or heroin, and takes only a tiny dose to be lethal.

As scientists learn more about how the brain manages attention, drugs will become ever more powerful, nuanced, and precise.

Since scientists created the first magnetic resonance images (MRIs) in the early 1970s, the technology has grown more powerful by leaps and bounds — so much so that the Food and Drug Administration has capped the level of magnetism to which humans can be exposed.

Relapses are the reason most treatment programs fail, he says, because a single, brief exposure to a disavowed drug ignites a compulsion in addicts more powerful than that engendered by continual use.

The TSRI researchers confirmed the drug's powerful stimulant effects in rats and found evidence that it could be more addictive than methamphetamine, one of the most addictive substances to date.

Now, version 3.0 has a unique three - pronged approach to killing bacteria that could give doctors a powerful new weapon against drug - resistant bacteria and help researchers engineer more durable antibiotics.

The drug often is implicated in clusters of overdose deaths when it is mixed with heroin and users do not realize what they are taking is more powerful than usual.

Even before they knew the actual identity of -LRB-- secretase, drug companies had already been developing compounds that block the enzyme's activity; but now that researchers have actual secretase enzymes in hand, they can look for more specific and powerful inhibitors.

Instead of stirring up powerful T cells through an injected amyloid vaccine, they used a nasal spray containing two drugs that provoke a less robust but more manageable immune response.

But researchers are divided over whether to test the more powerful immune - suppressing drugs that patients take for illnesses such as psoriasis, Crohn disease, and rheumatoid arthritis.

We know that cocaine is a powerful and addictive drug and an important question remains: does cocaine mess up this process so that when cocaine users are off the drug they feel like other people have more negative emotions?»

These combination treatments rely on an artemisinin derivative for their powerful punch and contain a second drug to make it more difficult for the parasite to become resistant.

Kohn has collaborated with Tropsha to develop a new series of anti-epileptic drugs that could be even more powerful than one of his earlier discovered compounds.

Their most powerful tool in this job is the randomized controlled trial, a type of experiment in which researchers separate participants into two or more groups and subject some of them to the intervention to be studied, like a new drug or surgical procedure.

Increasingly, drug users are turning to opioids and powerful synthetic versions of these drugs that can sometimes be as much as 100 times more potent than heroin,» says Kim D. Janda, Ph.D., who led the research into the vaccines.

The new drug turned out to be up to 10 times more powerful than heparin at preventing new clots.

The drug is 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times more powerful than fentanyl, the drug that pop star Prince overdosed on earlier this year.

Working closely with more than 200 data contributors, WWARN is able to use this powerful resource to perform pooled analyses that uncover new insights into the emergence and spread of malaria drug resistance, including evaluating the efficacy of antimalarial combination therapies (ACTs), and examining whether known molecular markers can predict clinical outcomes.

Researchers are also finding ways to manipulate mAbs to make them even more powerful, and to craft them to work in combination with other drugs — for example, by delivering cancer - killing drugs directly to a tumor.

The willow - leaved justicia (Justicia gendarussa), a medicinal plant found throughout Southeast Asia, contains a potent anti-HIV-1 compound more powerful than the clinically used drug azidothymidine (AZT), according to new research.

By uncovering the precise cellular mechanisms of nicotine's effect, this study suggests new and more precise targets for drugs designed to block this powerful craving.

Turmeric is a more powerful anti-inflammatory than many drugs and has too many other benefits to list here.

These drugs, known collectively as acid - suppressing medications, are more powerful because they actually stop the stomach from producing acid.

«What we're trying to do is boost the placebo response to make drugs more powerful, or reduce the amount of medication someone might need because of their strong placebo response,» she says.

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Turmeric is so powerful, that studies have suggested the effects of this herb may be equally or more effective than the pharmaceutical estrogen - lowering drug tamoxifen.

Ginger: ginger is an amazing anti-inflammatory food that has a more powerful effect on the body than non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

It is a powerful antiviral which more potent than any antiviral drug that is used to treat influenza.

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In fact, studies show that turmeric is just as powerful as (if not more powerful than) the medical drug tamoxifen at blocking estrogen, and it does so without any toxic side - effects.

As mentioned above, pharmaceutical drugs either contain the powerful active from the plant extract or now, more than ever, the molecular structure of the drug is synthetically copied in a lab to match that of the plant.

I went through a number of different drugs but each one had terrible side effects and all of them made my mood swings more powerful.

The thrust of Bredesen's thesis is that as powerful as natural therapies are, they are even more powerful when individualized to the patient, an idea which is complete anathema to the drug companies and their allies at the FDA.