Sentences with phrase «number of drugs used»

A large number of drugs used today originate from nature.

Not exact matches

«Our drug has been used in hospitals for many, many years and established an enormous number of fans,» she said.

The federal government still classifies marijuana as an illegal drug, even as a growing number of states are legalizing its use.

And much of the reason its creators felt confident enough to invest all that time, money, and effort — given the small number of patients who might eventually use the medicine — can be traced to the Orphan Drug Act, a 1983 federal law that gave those who develop meds for uncommon diseases longer periods of marketing exclusivity and other financial incentives.

However, it's far simpler to do consistent, smaller price hikes on drugs used by a far greater number of people in order to make up for revenue gaps.

CVS, for example, began limiting prescriptions to seven days and prioritizing lower - dose drugs, and a number of legal complaints have been leveled against opioid manufacturers, who have been accused of using misleading marketing tactics that may have caused more patients to get hooked on potentially addicting painkillers.

If it works, it could be used in a far greater number of patients than Sarepta's drug, which is approved for a relatively small slice of the DMD patient pool.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has said that almost nine percent of Israelis use cannabis, though some Israeli experts believe the numbers are higher.

Over the years, a number of anonymous websites have sprung up to allow users to use bitcoins to purchase drugs and other illicit products.

The number of patients treated with nitroglycerin, a drug used for chest pain and heart failure, increased by 89 percent.

However, stats are numbers that are easily manipulated, and if you want to drug yourself via the pill or use any other type of contraception, PAY FOR IT YOURSELF!

«In view of the fact that many of us, if not all of us, have expressed everything from concern to indignation and indeed amusement at the probability that Leinster and King's Hospital swimmer Michelle Smith has been using performance - enhancing drugs for a number of years, it now seems ironic to propose Life Membership in the IASA for this swimmer,» Gordon said.

For another thing, people on drugs tend to overestimate the numbers of people who also use drugs.

According to espn.com, the size of the black market is as much a mystery as the number of athletes using the drugs.

With the legalization of pot for medicinal and recreational use in a growing number of states, the opinion on this drug is finally starting to change.

73 % of students listed academic stress as their number one reason for using drugs, yet only 7 % of parents believe teens might use drugs to deal with stress.

The high rise in the number of multiple births was also caused by the use of ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology) and fertility drugs, which help women conceive.

In response to reports that women may be using this unapproved drug, to increase milk production (lactation), the WHO and FDA are warning breastfeeding women of safety concerns as «there have been several published reports and case studies of cardiac arrhythmias, cardiac arrest and sudden death in patients receiving an intravenous form of domperidone that has been withdrawn from the market in a number of countries.»

73 percent of students listed academic stress as their number one reason for using drugs, yet only 7 percent of parents believe teens might use drugs to deal with stress.

While the exact number of women using the drugs is difficult to determine, the topic is hotly discussed at breastfeeding support groups like La Leche League and in online new - mother forums.

Smoking and drug use — smoking through pregnancy can affect your baby's development in a number of ways and increases your chances of having a premature baby

Women or their infants were excluded from participating if the mother was under 16 years (Hoddinott 2012), had a medical contraindication (Hoddinott 2012; Junior 2007; Paul 2012), the physical condition of baby prevented breastfeeding (Junior 2007), if the hospital stay was longer than usual, there were any postnatal complications in the mother or newborn, no phone number, living outside the area, or child protection concerns (Paul 2012), and any prenatal drug use, psychiatric illness, or HIV positive status (Serwint 1996).

For all women included in the study, we collected data on their age, height, weight before pregnancy, body mass index, income quintile, drug and alcohol use (v. no use) during pregnancy, smoking status, status of parenthood (single v. other), parity, gestational age at first prenatal visit, number of antenatal visits and history of ultrasonography before 20 weeks» gestation.

Other factors that may lead to fetal distress during pregnancy and labor include an advanced maternal age, drug or alcohol use, diabetes and a large number of prior deliveries.

Breastfeeding is contraindicated in infants with classic galactosemia (galactose 1 - phosphate uridyltransferase deficiency) 103; mothers who have active untreated tuberculosis disease or are human T - cell lymphotropic virus type I — or II — positive104, 105; mothers who are receiving diagnostic or therapeutic radioactive isotopes or have had exposure to radioactive materials (for as long as there is radioactivity in the milk) 106 — 108; mothers who are receiving antimetabolites or chemotherapeutic agents or a small number of other medications until they clear the milk109, 110; mothers who are using drugs of abuse («street drugs»); and mothers who have herpes simplex lesions on a breast (infant may feed from other breast if clear of lesions).

Assembly committees on health and corrections heard testimony on a number of issues pertaining to health in state prisons and local jails, including the treatment of HIV and hepatitis C, illnesses that have increased in correctional facilities with the rise in use of injectable drugs like heroin.

They have spent the past month researching and preparing for a number of tough but contemporary topics, including whether in a digital age we should expect our online activities to remain private, whether we should allow the use of performance enhancing drugs in sport and, appropriately, whether we have a right to not be offended.

On Monday, the New York State Senate passed a number of bills related to curtailing drug use in New York, including these two sponsored by local Bronx Senator Jeff Klein:

NYPD officials said it's difficult to calculate the exact number of complaints from people who smell the drug because they're entered using different spellings of «marijuana,» or other names such as «weed» or «pot.»

Advocates had countered that it was highly unlikely, given legal use of marijuana in other states, that the feds would tie up New York over offering expedited access to the drug to a limited number of patients.

Steven Matteo (R)- D50 - in Brooklyn, parts of Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, and Bath Beach; in Staten Island, Arrochar, Bulls Head, Concord, Dongan Hill, Emerson Hill, Fort Wadsworth, Grant City, Graniteville, Grasmere, Island of Meadows, Midland Beach, New Dorp, Prall's Island, Richmondtown, South Beach, Todt Hill, Travis, Westerleigh, Willowbrook - Sandy relief is still the number one priority in Staten Island, but Matteo has identified other issues affecting residents, including rampantprescription drug use.

This dearth of evidence has a number of explanations: serious lingering reactions, if they exist, occur after prolonged use, rarely after a single dose; marijuana has no known medical use, unlike LSD, so scientists have had little reason to study the drug......

Researchers have tried lamprey - specific poisons to control their numbers, but more out - of - the - box ideas include using artificial lamprey pheromones to lure them to their doom, and designing a birth control drug that would only affect female lampreys.

Intractable epilepsy, number of antiepileptic drugs used, and the number of seizures were similar in all groups.

A number of British physicians observed that nitroglycerin rapidly terminated the intense chest pain of angina, and, following the publication of a systematic study in 1879, the drug was adopted for routine medical use.

«When one considers the modest decrease in risk of adverse outcomes associated with the use of a number of widely used medications such as anti-cholesterol drugs, the effect sizes seen in this study are really impressive,» said Dr. Memtsoudis.

The researchers found that the number of substance - use disorders among 12 - to 17 - year olds had declined by 49 percent over the 12 - year span, along with a simultaneous 34 percent decline in delinquent behaviors, such as fighting, assault, stealing, selling drugs or carrying a handgun.

Our brains may be spotting any number of potential cues — the way a doctor is dressed, the words she chooses to describe a drug, the size of the needle she uses, or even the painting on her wall, which the patient fixates on as the needle goes in.

Structure - based drug design, in which the physical structure of a targeted protein is used to help identify compounds that will interact with it, has already been used to generate therapeutic agents for a number of infectious and metabolic diseases.

A statin drug commonly used to lower cholesterol is not effective in reducing the number and severity of flare ups from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to the results of a large multicenter clinical trial designed and directed by Gerard J. Criner, MD, Director of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA..

The number of conditions that several other drugs can be used for has also been reduced.

But most Africans with HIV claim never to use drugs, engage in prostitution, or have large numbers of sexual partners.

However, when the researchers used drugs or mouse mutations that reduced the number of monocytes or removed TNF, they were able to restore antibacterial immunity in aged mice.

«Part of my job is to collate information on the techniques used to manufacture illicit drugs and to investigate the availability of a number of key chemicals which are essential for their production.

Following a number of successful clinical trials the use of use of baclofen increased massively and sales of the drug have soared in some countries.

As scientists decode and find ways to replicate these environments, they are pioneering a number of new treatments that can transform medicine, showing how they can be used to regenerate damaged tissue, create new muscle where there was none before — even grow «organelles» that can be used to test new drugs.

Mardinoglu says the team's network modeling approach, which relied on data from the Sweden - based Human Protein Atlas project and The Genotype - Tissue Expression (GTEx) project consortia, can be used in the identification of drug targets and eventually in the development of efficient strategies for treating a number of chronic liver diseases.

DESI has been used for a number of forensic applications, but no other studies have shown it to demonstrate drug use.»

Researchers in Sweden have just identified a number of drug targets that can be used in the development of new efficient treatment strategies with minimum side effects.

Cell transplantation as a treatment for diabetes is still essentially experimental, uses cells from cadavers, requires the use of powerful immunosuppressive drugs, and has been available to only a very small number of patients.