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.
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.
The rise of bacteria resistant to antibiotics has left researchers scrambling to develop
more powerful drugs.
This new
more powerful drug heralds the start of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART)-- a combination therapy regimen using a «cocktail» of drugs
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.
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.
Thyroid for Dummies, 2nd Edition gives you the detailed information you're looking for on new methods for detecting thyroid disease in both adults and children, alternative treatments, pros and cons of
powerful new
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more.
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.