Sentences with phrase «of conventional drugs»

I watched him blossom on the raw food diet, gaining healthy muscle mass weight but not becoming fat, developing a beautiful coat and clearing many of his chronic health problems without the need of conventional drugs.

Therefore, herbal and other natural sleep aids are gaining popularity, as herbs commonly used for their sedative - hypnotic effects do not have the drawbacks of conventional drugs.

Repurposing refers to the reuse of conventional drugs with distinct indications for new applications in order to speed up drug development by capitalizing on previous knowledge and safety data.

The study by researchers at King's College Hospital and the University of Southampton suggests that adding nutraceuticals to chemotherapy cycles may improve the effectiveness of conventional drugs, particularly in hard to treat cancers, such as pancreatic cancer.

In addition, we found that lower doses of the conventional drug were needed, suggesting either that the compounds work together synergistically, or that the extract exerts a «supra - additive» effect.

Veterinarians and holistic practitioners often use whole food concentrates while employing glandular therapies for degenerative disorders and immune system problems in lieu of conventional drug treatments.

Not exact matches

The financial loss can range from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars, but the health risk is more serious still as consumers who fall for such scams may be counseled to stop or delay conventional treatment for their disease, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

The images dramatically show the progression of the secondary injury and the chaotic molecular environment that makes conventional drug delivery to the affected area so challenging.

The reflections of the French Catholic writer François Mauriac, who succeeded in leading a conventional family life despite what he experienced as the powerful lure of alcohol, drugs, and homosexuality, demonstrate the gap between the austere piety of the religious individual and the tactful lifestyle that Tóibín detects in James:

Health care of those for whom Christian Science is the preferred mode of treatment is typically not attempted through drugs, surgery, or other conventional methods but through Christian Science treatment, a specific form of prayer intended to spiritualize thought.»

We recommend going with organic free - range chicken so you're not getting all of the hormones and drugs that are pumped into conventional chickens to get them to grow faster and to keep them from getting sick while they're all caged up and living on top of each other.

My uncle has diabetes and might have prostate cancer, I found out today, but instead of changing his diet he will just take drugs and the conventional therapies and feels horrible.

FDA regulates dietary supplements under a different set of regulations than those covering «conventional» foods and drug products.

«However, delivery of biologics to diseased tissues is challenging, because they are significantly larger and more complex than conventional drugs.»

The greatest safety concern relates to the large percentage of menopausal women who typically use CAM products concurrently with conventional medicine but who may be unaware of the possible herb - drug interactions.

Current treatments for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), an aggressive form of blood cancer, include conventional chemotherapy drugs that inhibit DNA synthesis.

While most youth using e-cigarettes are dual users, up to a third of adolescent e-cigarette users have never smoked a conventional cigarette, indicating that some youth are starting use of the addictive drug nicotine with e-cigarettes.

Whereas most conventional scientists focus on a single system or disease, Butte earned tenure recently with a dossier of advances in diabetes, obesity, and transplant rejection, and the discovery of new drugs for lung cancer and other diseases.

Microdosing was used to treat one group of patients, while a conventional eye dropper was used to deliver the drug to another group.

BPTES has been used in animal models for a variety of cancers but has not substantially reduced tumor sizes, probably because the drug concentration in tumor tissue is not high enough when using conventional drug formulation methods, say the scientists.

Researchers at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai showed that a microdose delivery system achieved a treatment effect comparable to a conventional eyedropper, while delivering less than four times the amount of drug.

Unlike conventional drugs, BNPs can be designed to deliver therapeutic agents specifically to the site of inflammation.

These are aimed specifically at pathways involved in either the initiation and progression of cancer or its resistance to conventional drugs.

To be able to take medication once a month or even longer will make it much easier for patients to be compliant while at the same time help bring the drug to tissues of the body that are not easily reached by conventional medicines.»

Unlike conventional methods of HIV prevention, such as condoms or anti-HIV drugs, the implant takes advantage of some people's natural immunity to the virus.

Conventional drug discovery remains a hit - and - miss affair and Hunter believes the 50 percent failure rates seen for experimental compounds in mid - and late - stage clinical trials due to lack of efficacy is unsustainable, forcing a shift to AI.

As reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, this drug blocks key enzymes used in mycomembrane biosynthesis, significantly increasing the effectiveness of conventional antibiotics.

Convened in part by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, the meeting will bring together academics, government officials, industry experts, and patient advocates to discuss the use of naloxone both in and out of conventional medical settings.

This new sustained - release drug therapy can provide months of relief to glaucoma patients with a single application, compared to just hours with today's conventional eye drops.

Conventional technology such as mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance can measure such components — that is how biochemists test the toxicity of drugs or environmental pollutants on human cells.

While the 3D injectable scaffold is being tested in mice as a potential cancer vaccine, any combination of different antigens and drugs could be loaded into the scaffold, meaning it could also be used to treat infectious diseases that may be resistant to conventional treatments.

«We expect that the proposed treatment will be especially effective in advanced stages of ovarian cancers, where there are many cancer stem cells in the tumors that resist conventional drug treatment,» says Minko.

The main reason for advanced - stage ovarian cancer, they say, is an out of control protein CD44, which enables cancerous tumors to proliferate and become resistant to conventional drug treatments.

«Identifying a cancer driver is crucial for cancer treatment because it allows the use of targeted therapies, which have less side - effects than conventional chemotherapy drugs, against a particular protein,» said Kurokawa.

Writing in a linked Comment, Professor Philip Cowen, MRC Clinical Scientist, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, says: «The key observation that might eventually justify the use of a drug like psilocybin in treatment - resistant depression is demonstration of sustained benefit in patients who previously have experienced years of symptoms despite conventional treatments, which makes longer - term outcomes particularly important.

An off - label drug prescribed to treat osteoarthritis of the hand when conventional medication has failed is ineffective, according to new research.

In a provocative challenge to conventional wisdom, the report suggests that the U.S. government not focus on the F grades, several of which refer to worst - case scenarios like drug - resistant bioweapons or millions of casualties.

• Platinum - Resistant — these are patients whose disease recurred within six months of conventional chemotherapy (using the drugs cisplatin or carboplatin) and are generally less responsive to subsequent treatments and have not responded as well to PARP inhibitors.

«About 15 to 20 percent of patients who start conventional treatment for drug - resistant TB don't finish, mostly because of the length, expense and discomfort associated with it,» says Emily Kendall, M.D., an instructor in the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

The court also noted that Prometheus's claims fell short because its invention — a method of monitoring thiopurine drugs in the blood — involved a «well - understood, routine, conventional activity previously engaged in by researchers in the field.»

«We're utilizing the natural force of competition to control the resistant ones and using conventional drugs to treat the sensitive ones.»

Men with aggressive prostate cancer that has stopped responding to conventional treatment could potentially benefit from a new class of cancer drug designed to overcome drug resistance, a new study suggests.

Conventional drug discovery largely consists of finding new compounds that specifically disrupt only disease - associated processes.

Conventional opioids activate both pathways, which causes constipation and slowed breathing and may induce an increased tolerance of drugs such as morphine.

Many biologics target molecular processes that no conventional drug can, and they can treat a growing list of diseases.

«The idea is a two - hit strategy,» Peter said, «hit them first with the microRNA and make those drug - resistant cells sensitive again, then hit them again with low levels of conventional chemotherapy.»

That makes them less likely to cause side effects than a conventional drug that may find its way to unintended parts of the body.

eBM models organ - level marrow toxicity responses and protective effects of radiation countermeasure drugs, whereas conventional bone marrow culture methods do not.

Conventional immune analysis technologies fail to provide the detailed insights that are needed to create the next generation of antibody drugs.

Carmot is applying an innovative technology, Chemotype Evolution, to overcome the limitations of conventional discovery technologies and identify superior drug candidates for challenging therapeutic targets.