Sentences with phrase «potential medical use»

While the effects of some substances that have become popular as recreational drugs in recent years have previously been studied for their potential medical use, such as ketamine and GHB, there are practically no published studies on mephedrone — just user surveys and anecdotal accounts.

«There are promising data on potential medical use but the data suggesting it dampens the marijuana high are really not compelling when you look at the original sources,» she notes.

In addition to the potential medical uses, the self - assembly technique could have applications in optics, optoelectronics, magnetic technologies, sensing materials and devices, catalysis and nanotechnology.

«We can use this cell - growth test to select for a lot of things — including the discovery of antibodies with potential medical uses — but Dr. Lerner and I wanted a more direct and generally applicable way of selecting for antibody function,» Zhang said.

[I] n recent years studies have shown the venom of the golden lancehead to have practical applications for humans, with many potential medical uses, making it even more important to protect this snake... More effective enforcement on the island is recommended to prevent illegal removal of snakes.

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Investors can participate in the potential of companies such as TIO Networks Corp. (TSXV: TNC), an expedited bill - payment processor, which recorded $ 36.5 million in revenues in 2011, an increase of almost 50 % over the previous year, and Verisante Technology Inc. (TSXV: VRS), a medical device company that commercializes cancer detection systems using a platform developed by the BC Cancer Agency.

THREE TOP TRENDS FROM HEALTHCONF 2017: At this year's HealthConf, held in Lisbon, Portugal, BI Intelligence identified three emerging trends that will likely impact much of the innovation in the healthcare space over the next year: AI's potential to enhance medical diagnostics, how fitness tracking data can be used to create actionable insights for diagnostics and prevention, and the emergence of «Ambient Intelligence.»

Marijuana's position in the top tier of the scheduling system — which organizes drugs by their «acceptable medical use and... abuse or dependency potential» — has endured since the 1970s.

In an August 11, 2016 announcement, the DEA reconfirmed its position, «marijuana remains a schedule I controlled substance because it does not meet the criteria for currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, there is a lack of accepted safety for its use under medical supervision, and it has a high potential for abuse.»

At the federal level, marijuana remains classified as a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act, where Schedule I substances are considered to have a high potential for dependency and no accepted medical use, making distribution of marijuana a federal offense.

Some of the medical studies I used as a reference are: Caloric restriction and intermittent fasting: Two potential diets for successful brain aging and Dietary Factors, Hormesis and Health, found on the US National Library of Medicine Site, Cardioprotection by Intermittent Fasting in Rats on the American Heart Association Site and Effect of Ramadan intermittent fasting on aerobic and anaerobic performance and perception of fatigue in male elite judo athletes from the Journal of Strength and conditioning research.

Any and all have the potential to be a doctor, so using the term physician and doctor interchangeably continues to mislead the community and even medical professionals into believing that only medical doctors are doctors.

The stem cells are harvested, processed and then «cryopreserved» (a fancy word for freezing) at a bank for your potential future medical use.

We used multivariable logistic - regression models to adjust for potential confounders, including maternal race or ethnic group (non-Hispanic white vs. other), parity (nulliparous vs. multiparous), insurance status (public or none vs. other), extent of prenatal care (≥ 5 visits vs. < 5 visits), advanced maternal age (≥ 35 years vs. < 35 years), maternal education (> 12 years vs. ≤ 12 years), history or no history of cesarean delivery, and a composite marker of conditions that confer increased medical risk.

The potential breakthrough, a proprietary yet easy - to - use band worn on the neck, was unveiled during a presentation that featured leading experts in neurology and medical research.

In 1970 the Controlled Substances Act established marijuana as a Schedule I drug, «with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.»

The discovery of this new type of botulinum neurotoxin, from an unexpected source, has the potential to widen the range of medical uses even further.

«While biotechnology is being pursued primarily for beneficial and legitimate purposes, there are potential uses that are detrimental to humans, other species, and ecosystems,» said Michael Imperiale, professor and associate chair of microbiology and immunology at the University of Michigan Medical School and chair of the committee that wrote the interim report.

Research involving the derivation and use of embryonic stem (ES) cells is permissible only where there is strong scientific merit in, and potential medical benefit from, such research.

«This shows iPS cells have a lot of problems, but that doesn't mean they don't have potential — just not with the established methodologies used to create them,» says tissue engineer Anthony Atala, director of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston — Salem, N.C. «It's a solvable problem, but it looks as if one should look away from methods that don't genetically modify the cell.»

The registries are a potential source of data for use by scientists in medical and behavioral research.

«The next step of progress is to use this knowledge to decipher what potential impact the genetic variants can have on the health of individuals, when we conduct health - related research,» added Professor Michael Pepper, Unit Director of the South African Medical Research Council's (SAMRC) Stem Cell Research and Therapy Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria.

Currently, marijuana remains classified as a Schedule I substance under the U.S. Controlled Substances Act, meaning it is considered to have a high potential for abuse, no accepted medical value and lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision.

UT Southwestern Medical Center cancer researchers have identified a protein critical to the spread of deadly cancer cells and determined how it works, paving the way for potential use in diagnosis and eventually possible therapeutic drugs to halt or slow the spread of cancer.

The time resolution would ideally be improved from 0.5 frames per second (fps) to 30 fps for telecommunication, but many potential applications in medical and industrial imaging could use the lower rates already achieved, said Peyghambarian.

From a practical standpoint, metallic glasses are extremely strong, hard, and resistant to wear and corrosion, all of which make them good potential candidates for engineering uses, including electronics casings, and medical uses such as surgical pins and stents.

While there are many potential uses for this technology, Reed and his team are focusing on medical applications.

Although many physicians agree that marijuana is safe enough to temporarily alleviate the symptoms of certain medical conditions, these policies do not take into account the potential risks of marijuana use.

«Additional studies should certainly be considered, but we hope that medical professionals will consider the positive potential of honey as a treatment given the lack of proven efficacy, expense and potential for adverse effects associated with the use of DM,» said lead study author Ian Paul, a pediatrician and associate professor of pediatrics.

The U.S. government hasn't legalized marijuana and still classifies it as a Schedule I drug — with high potential for abuse, no accepted medical use and no safe use under medical supervision.

Two existing drugs — one the active ingredient in an anti-fungal medication and the other now used to control iron levels in the blood — both show promise as potential treatments for cervical cancer, according to newly published research by scientists at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

But experimental research with medical cannabis remains difficult because the U.S. classifies it as a Schedule I substance that has «no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.»

«Instead of just saying we need to spend taxpayer dollars to educate another 6,000 medical residents in anesthesia, why can't we use the CRNAs we have already trained and start letting them practice to the fullest scope of their potential.»

Howard Hughes Medical Institute scientists have designed a potential cancer therapy that uses a unique strategy to block mTOR, a molecule that helps drive the growth of many tumors.

Doing large studies of marijuana's potential as medicine means getting it removed from an official federal list of substances with no official medical use — which requires more proof of its potential as medicine.

In the first study of its kind, Julie Ishida, MD, MAS (University of California, San Francisco and San Francisco VA Medical Center) and her colleagues examined the potential links between marijuana use and kidney function in healthy young adults.

He also sees potential for using it in certain types of surgery, including to guide medical catheters.

A series of six articles appearing in the March issue of The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences finds new correlations between a Mediterranean diet and healthy aging outcomes — while also underscoring the need for careful approaches to the use of data in order to measure the diet's potential benefits.

Efforts to study these effects are hampered by federal classification of cannabis as a Schedule 1 drug, meaning it has no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.

«RNAi therapies are a unique approach to cancer treatment as they have the potential to «turn off» the genes» coding for proteins involved in cancer cell division,» said Ramesh K. Ramanathan, M.D., medical director of the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center Clinical Trials Program at Scottsdale Healthcare and deputy director of the Clinical Translational Research Division of the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) in Phoenix, Ariz. «Using a lipid nanoparticle, the RNAi drug can be delivered to a cancer cell to block the expression of specific proteins involved in tumor growth.»

A full realisation of the medical potential of stem cells for human health will likely depend on a reinforcement of, and development of a whole continuum of studies ranging from those in vivo using model organisms, to cell - based therapies in the clinic.

Ultimately, they could be used for water filtration, molecular sensing, medical diagnosis, drug delivery and fuel cells — to name just a few potential applications.

Some medical sleep experts, including Grandner, are skeptical about acoustic stimulation's potential for home use, at least at this point.

The researchers plan to use the mouse models of CAVD to test several potential drug therapies they identified, in the hopes of discovering the first medical treatment for the disease.

Legal risks aside, it's important to note that because LSD is illegal (it's a Schedule I drug, with «no current accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse»), it lacks both FDA regulation and a significant body of scientific research on its short - and long - term effects.

Despite the fact that many states have medical marijuana programs, cannabis is still considered a schedule one substance, meaning it has «no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.»

In medical school, we learn that all drugs have side effects and the potential to be toxic, and the acid - blocking drugs used to treat GERD are no exception.

But research on its potential uses for treating medical problems «is still in its very early stages,» and designing trials can be challenging, said Richard J. Davidson, a neuroscientist who founded the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center, at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

It's commonly used in medical protein supplements and infant formulas because of its reduced allergen potential.

One thing to keep in mind about Anadrol, whether you are using it for bodybuilding purposes or medical purposes, is that you should always keep an eye out for any potential side effects so that you will not have to deal with any potential and unnecessary additional medical problems.