Sentences with phrase «of standard drugs»

In addition to testing the safety and effectiveness of the newest drug therapies targeting GIST, physicians here are actively involved in research to fine - tune usage of standard drugs in treating GIST.

A six - week stay at a Hindu temple in Tamil Nadu can produce the same improvement in people with severe psychiatric disorders as a month - long course of standard drugs, say researchers in India.

Ultimately Julia was diagnosed with attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and was treated with methylphenidate, one of the standard drugs for her condition.

And for the first time, the agency makes suggestions on what to do when none of the standard drugs work.

Not exact matches

For instance, legislators like Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Jeff Merkley of Oregon recently warned that Cures amounts to a big pharma giveaway which will weaken regulatory standards on drugs, provide a mere pittance to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and do nothing to confront the rising tide of high drug priDrug Administration (FDA), and do nothing to confront the rising tide of high drug pridrug prices.

The study, just published in Science, showed that the creation of what the researchers are calling microtumors can help predict drug effectiveness in cancer patients better than the current standard method of testing the drugs on rodents.

In a similar vein, earlier this year the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent a warning letter claiming that the Just Mayo products are «misbranded» because they do not meet the definition and standard of identity for mayonnaise.

India - based drug manufacturing facilities have been criticized by the FDA in recent years for violating quality standards, as the agency increases oversight of key suppliers to the United States.

CVS said it achieved this in part by excluding Valeant diabetes drug Glumetza from its standard formulary, or the list of drugs typically covered by insurance, because a generic version of the medication was available.

«I hold physicians to a higher standard,» Bourdette said, noting that some alternatives to Acthar cost 1 / 50th of the drug's price.

The company said a late - stage trial of its cancer drug Abraxane met its main goal of improving the patient's time of survival without worsening skin cancer, when compared to standard chemotherapy.

And don't worry, the lower cost doesn't mean the drug is less effective — brand and generic drugs have the same standards of quality and clinical effectiveness.

Erin's primary responsibilities at RA Capital are to manage the design and creation of all internal and external documents and resources for the company, including competitive landscapes of drugs and medical devices for disease indications and capabilities, set brand standards, and oversee internal and external marketing efforts.

I believe that together, we will continue to create an industry standard of PBM - Employee / Union partnership through reduction of overall pharmacy costs, reduction of avoidable drug - impacted medical costs, and optimization of specialty spend» says Ravi Ika, Founder & CEO of RxAdvance.

I believe together, we will pave the path to create an industry standard of PBM - plan sponsor collaborative partnership model that reduces overall pharmacy costs, avoidable drug - impacted medical costs and optimize specialty spend» says Ravi Ika, Founder & CEO of RxAdvance.

Specialists in infectious disease are protesting a gigantic overnight increase in the price of a 62 - year - old drug that is the standard of care for treating a life - threatening parasitic infection.

Its first indication is a rare cancer that affects only 3,100 new patients each year, and the drug only targets roughly 30 % of those patients who do not respond to standard therapy.

Lead investor Deerfield Management's Dr. Andrew ElBardissi: This technology has the potential to be the standard of care for a large segment of HF patients that continue to worsen despite the use of approved drugs and devices.

If our standard of virtue is built on the likelihood of becoming violent, drug addicted gangsters then this music is probably harmless to many young people.

Many of the Christian networks require that members belong to a church and meet certain moral standards, such as avoiding drug use and not having sex outside of marriage.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has only set standards of enrichment for four nutrients lost during grain processing (vitamins B1, B2, B3 and the mineral iron).

Due to a high degree of pollution and low government safety standards, supplements manufactured in China are commonly found to be tainted with heavy metals and other pollutants — including prescription drugs.

According to England Santa Claus has broken almost every rule in the book and violated numerous food, drug, facility registration and import laws, regulations and standards over the years as he has illegally imported millions of dollars worth of merchandise to children in the United States, albeit as gifts.

Consumer Reports tested samples of apple and grape juice and found that 10 percent of the samples had total arsenic levels that exceeded federal drinking - water standards of 10 parts per billion (ppb) and 25 percent of the samples had lead levels higher than the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) bottled - water limit of 5 ppb.

Formula makers like Abbott, as well as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, confirm that breast milk is «the gold standard» of infant feeding.

Dragged vs. drug In all main varieties of English, dragged is the standard past tense and past participle of the verb drag.

The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the addition of two long - chain fatty acids to formula: DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) and ARA (arachidonic acid), which are now standard ingredients in formula.

What I'm getting at... is it reasonable to hold all health research to the standards required for FDA approval of a drug?

If you call your drug a «nutritional supplement» then it doesn't have to meet any of the standards that protect patients.

The HMBANA guidelines, developed with the assistance of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), have been used globally in the development of nearly all milk banking standards and are reviewed annually to ensure safety.

To maintain safety standards for infant health in this country, an act of Congress governs the contents of infant formula, and the Food and Drug Administration monitors all formulas.

Europe's food regulation agency, the European Union, does not allow the use of many ingredients still approved by the FDA and holds formula manufacturers to standards closer to that of drug manufacturers.

«The National Agency For Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) which hitherto waged ceaseless war on the influx of fake and substandard items into Nigeria, have not in anyway adequately addressed this issue.

While I grant that the acknowledgement of the failure of the War on Drugs is an important first step, security will not be achieved in the Americas until we take seriously the issues that create the environment suitable for insecurity — a weak rule of law, punitive judiciary systems and the inability of many members of society to achieve a dignified standard of living, among others.

Drugs way nastier than marihuana (including methadona, heroine and other opium derivatives) are part of standard medical treatments; making marihuana a prescription drug is not an argument for marihuana legalization because that would mean being for the legalization of novocaine, morphine and all of the other nasty stuff.

While about 33 % of beneficiaries are part of this system where insurance can negotiate, known as «Medicare Advantage», most Medicare beneficiaries receive benefits directly from the government agency involved which pays 106 % of the «standard price» for prescription drugs without negotiation.

Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has given a 24 - hour ultimatum to officials of National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON),...

Dame Ruth concluded: «The review we have carried out demonstrates just how far the prison system needs to travel if it is to deliver a standard of health care and support for prisoners which is sufficient to make a sustained impact on offenders» problem drug use once they leave.»

Studies show that these models can accurately predict the ways that new drugs will react in the human body and replace the use of animals in exploratory research and many standard drug tests.

While not well known in the United States, safe injection centers for injecting drug users are a standard feature of harm reduction programs in large cities elsewhere, -LSB-...]

Of the 22 homes, four tested above the federal Food and Drug Administration's standard for lead in bottled water.

It is not yet part of standard medical practice to match drugs to your genetic makeup.

Early generations of Moderna's drugs didn't meet that standard in animal tests, acknowledges its president, Stephen Hoge; over time, liver toxicity and immune reactions reared their heads.

I'm critical of the standard view promoted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse that addiction is a brain disease.

To do so, he sat down with The Merck Index, a standard reference manual for chemicals, drugs, and other compounds, and turned to the section on the class of hormones to which norbolethone's precursor belonged.

This can be daunting, Arman writes in an e-mail, because often you have just a few days to become an expert on a range of diseases, including symptoms, standards of care, and compounds in the drug - development pipeline.

While the result held for the standard classes of heart drugs — statins, anticoagulants and antihypertensives — it did not for beta blockers.

«What's frightening about this emerging street drug is that users themselves may not be aware that they are ingesting it,» said lead study author John Stogner, Ph.D. of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, N.C. «A patient may report heroin use and have symptoms consistent with heroin overdose, but an emergency physician may find that the standard dose of antidote (naloxone) doesn't work.

It's injected directly into the peritoneum through a catheter, which exposes the tumors to higher concentrations of the drug compared to standard IV paclitaxel treatment.

They compared the concentrations of proteins in the retinas of non-diabetic mice, of mice with type 2 diabetes without treatment and of type 2 diabetic mice that were treated with the standard drug metformin, which lowers blood glucose levels and thus reduces diabetes complications.