Sentences with phrase «of traditional drugs»

«Over the past five to 10 years, types of illicit drugs used around the world have been created or repurposed from research chemicals to mimic the effects of traditional drugs of abuse in order to circumvent legal control and detection,» explained corresponding author Sabra Botch - Jones, MS, MA, D - ABFT, forensic toxicologist and instructor in the Biomedical Forensic Sciences program in the department of anatomy and neurobiology at BUSM.

She has experience in small molecule and large molecule development for both oncology and non-oncology indications and has a strong interest in developing alternative in vitro and in vivo methods to assess safety and efficacy outside of the traditional drug development paradigm.

You most definitely should, I've started to research the ingredients of traditional drug store nail polishes, and I got dizzy from the amount of nastiness they carry inside!

Occasionally, a patient has required less of a traditional drug, when a holistic approach to health has been implemented.

Not exact matches

Traditional drug giants have caught on to the not - so - dirty little secret that outsourcing drug research (and in - licensing) may be a more effective strategy than trying to create groundbreaking new molecules within the confines of a single lab.

Combining the traditional world of shipping with the new world of data, it helps governments reduce the trafficking of arms, drugs and people; and saves lives by predicting and preventing accidents.

Mark Merritt, CEO of the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA), a trade group representing the 10 largest traditional PBMs, says that while «drug prices have gone up more than we'd like» over the years, his members have saved employers 25 %.

Immunotherapy differs from more traditional cancer treatments, such as surgery (cutting malignant cells out of the body), chemotherapy and radiation (poisoning the deadly mutants), and even the newer, more precise molecular drugs that attempt to jam the protein signals that tell tumor cells to keep dividing and conquering.

With its traditional insulin treatments in the firing line due to U.S. price pressure, Novo Nordisk is pinning hopes for growth on new obesity drugs and a once - weekly injection and tablet version of its semaglutide drug.

Several regional grocers fit the traditional profile of an attractive target, but Shoppers Drug Mart stood out as a uniquely strategic asset in a less familiar but complementary space.

However, the prosecutor, US attorney Serrin Turner, said he found little to no distinction between the actions of both Shrem and Faiella, arguing that both crimes led to serious drug trafficking; that he was «moving drug money - not in the traditional way - online - but moving it nevertheless».

However, in very rare circumstances, Ionis Pharmaceuticals is able to make an experimental drug that we are developing available for patients outside of a traditional clinical trial under an expanded access protocol, sometimes referred to as a treatment protocol.

«The intensifying battle for negotiating power and market share will lead companies to do acquisitions across traditional industry boundary lines,» said Erik Gordon, a professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan who studies the drug industry.

Pregnancy, then, is not a disease by any normative definition, and the administration of a drug as potent and as toxic as methotrexate can not be justified within the traditional framework of medical risk / benefit analysis.

Clinebell begins this particular work with definitions of addiction and alcoholism: «In traditional psychiatric usage, the term addiction is limited to obsessive - compulsive abuse of substances like alcohol and drugs....

Politicians of every stripe and persuasion call for a return to traditional and family values as the surest solution to the nation's woes, from crime and drug abuse to poverty and illiteracy.

† No original traditional family lifestyle, all of thier holidays were stolen from other religions † Christians are angry, drug additcted and committ the most crime.

Several studies have found traditional Chinese herbal supplements to be tainted will all sorts of things, including actual pharmaceutical drugs, heavy metals and even DNA from endangered species like the snow leopard.

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Sure I was screaming and the bone pierced my skin, but I wanted a traditional bone setting procedure, not one full of drugs and interventions»

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Increased attention to the issue of heroin abuse has focused on traditional concerns such as enforcement of drug sales and strengthening penalties, especially for upper echelon dealers.

Those same MPs who have for decades supported the Misuse of Drugs Act, that piece of arcane and ineffective legislation which outlaws the more «traditional» drugs - cannabis, cocaine, heroin, MDMA, etc - in every sense from personal use and possession all the way up to production, are now suddenly concerned with criminalising uDrugs Act, that piece of arcane and ineffective legislation which outlaws the more «traditional» drugs - cannabis, cocaine, heroin, MDMA, etc - in every sense from personal use and possession all the way up to production, are now suddenly concerned with criminalising udrugs - cannabis, cocaine, heroin, MDMA, etc - in every sense from personal use and possession all the way up to production, are now suddenly concerned with criminalising users.

The party is in favour of reform of traditional British institutions such as the Church of England, a change in the electoral system from first - past - the - post to proportional representation, and drug decriminalisation.

The psychoactive substances bill sought to crack down on legal highs — especially the new generation of drugs that are designed to mimic the effects of traditional illicit substances such as cannabis and ecstasy — which the Home Office says caused 129 deaths in 2015.

As promised, the Motion was listed on the Order Paper and debated on the floor of plenary and the following resolutions were reached amongst which are; Mandate its Joint Committee on Drugs and Narcotics and health to investigate the growing menace of cough and other prescriptive drugs abuse; Urge the FG to partner with stakeholders, traditional rulers, Pharmacists councils, NGOs to create framework in fighting this category of drug abuse and urge NAFDAC to embark on a vigorous sensitization campaign on the dangers of drug abuse and steps on achieving a successful rehabilitation for people with the addicDrugs and Narcotics and health to investigate the growing menace of cough and other prescriptive drugs abuse; Urge the FG to partner with stakeholders, traditional rulers, Pharmacists councils, NGOs to create framework in fighting this category of drug abuse and urge NAFDAC to embark on a vigorous sensitization campaign on the dangers of drug abuse and steps on achieving a successful rehabilitation for people with the addicdrugs abuse; Urge the FG to partner with stakeholders, traditional rulers, Pharmacists councils, NGOs to create framework in fighting this category of drug abuse and urge NAFDAC to embark on a vigorous sensitization campaign on the dangers of drug abuse and steps on achieving a successful rehabilitation for people with the addiction.

He decried the disregard for the traditional institution and the failure of the legal system over the years, saying that the situation had encouraged impunity, religious intolerance and massive abuse of drugs leading to insecurity in many parts of the country.

According to a report from the National Cancer Institute, a study of 30 randomized studies found that THC (the active ingredient in marijuana) extracts outperformed traditional anti-nausea drugs and helped patients gain weight.

A cursory check revealed most of the suspects were licenced by the traditional herbal medicine association but have never checked or registered their drugs with the Food and Drugs Authdrugs with the Food and Drugs AuthDrugs Authority

«Traditional medicine doesn't consider mechanistic drug response,» said Rongling Wu, director of the Center for Statistical Genetics and professor of public health sciences within the division of biostatistics and bioinformatics at the Penn State College of Medicine.

Drug candidates currently in late stage clinical trials comprise of growth factors, which are traditional protein - based biological drugs associated with high costs, and some trials have been prematurely terminated.

A new broad range antibiotic, developed jointly by scientists at The Rockefeller University and Astex Pharmaceuticals, has been found to kill a wide range of bacteria, including drug - resistant Staphylococcus (MRSA) bacteria that do not respond to traditional drugs.

Traditional genetic approaches together with the new wealth of genomic information for both human and model organisms open up strategies by which drugs can be profiled for their ability to selectively kill cells in a molecular context that matches those found in tumors.

«The traditional way to deliver drugs to tumors is to put the drug inside some type of nanoparticle and inject those particles into the bloodstream,» said Jian Yang, professor of biomedical engineering, Penn State.

Parent perspectives reflect the trend, too, with more than two - thirds of parents polled saying traditional health topics should definitely be covered at their child's grade level, including physical activity, drug and alcohol abuse, healthy eating and sex education and pregnancy prevention.

Traditional antipsychotic drugs, which have been used for 40 years, are known to alleviate symptoms of the disorder in some patients by blocking receptors of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that is central to the brain's reward system as well as cognitive processing like attention and problem - solving.

For comparison, another group of mice were treated instead with a single dose of doxorubicin, a traditional anticancer drug.

Researchers recently investigated whether or not anti-TNFs, which help to control RA inflammation, would lower the risk and severity of heart attacks in these patients compared to traditional, non-biologic disease - modifying antirheumatic drugs, or DMARDs.

Dry powder inhalers exhibit several advantages over traditional drug delivery methods, including improved formulation stability, enhanced delivery efficiency, excellent portability and ease of use.

Newer drug - coated stents that keep arteries open have similar long - term rates of death compared with traditional bypass surgery for patients with more than one diseased coronary artery.

Those traditional statistics jobs aren't going away anytime soon, as long as society continues to need workers who can advance statistics theory, assess drugs» risks and efficacy, or do any of the other things statisticians have done for years.

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)-- bridging the missions of NIH with AHRQ and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and integrating traditional NIH clinical research with health services, outcomes, and medical - effectiveness research.

For their part, Carhart - Harris and his team are keen to study other types of psychedelic drugs, including dimethyltryptamine (DMT), sometimes found in a traditional South American brew called ayahuasca.

As part of a second trial, Swanton's lab will also study what happens to tumors under the selective pressure of various types of cancer therapies, from traditional chemotherapy to targeted drugs.

If a new drug could block HIV entry by interfering with CCR5 and CXCR4, it could be paired with a traditional cocktail targeting other stages of the virus lifecycle for an even more robust treatment.

A: The traditional model is about looking at the benefits and risks of the drug as it relates to the person who is taking it, and weighing the outcomes versus the side effects.

«From our past research, we know the ketogenic diet is effective in approximately one - third of adults with epilepsy who are resistant to traditional anti-seizure drugs,» says Mackenzie C. Cervenka, M.D., associate professor of neurology and director of the Adult Epilepsy Diet Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Findings of a three - year clinical trial led by University of Cincinnati (UC) transplant researchers suggest that a novel pre-operative drug therapy reduces antibodies in kidney patients with greater success than with traditional methods, with the potential to increase the patients» candidacy for kidney transplantation and decrease the likelihood of organ rejection.

This dietary intervention was used alongside traditional drugs as a sort of combination therapy.

The results, published online and scheduled for the November print issue of JAMA Pediatrics, are particularly timely as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers how to regulate e-cigarettes, which are easier for adolescents to purchase and, in many respects, more attractive to young people than traditional cigarettes.