Sentences with phrase «potentially deadly side effects»

But as you might expect, the demand for jade is enormous, and drugs are formulated that allow anyone to use it, if they're willing to risk the potentially deadly side effects.

In the meantime, Merck spent $ 100 million a year on consumer advertising for the drug — more than Pepsi spent for its cola — and published more company - funded studies that obscured potentially deadly side effects.

Their first visit was to CytoCybernetics, where CEO Glenna Bett explained how her company has developed a system that uses computers and live human cells to screen drugs in their early stages of development, to determine whether they may cause any potentially deadly side effects.

CAR - T treatments, including competing products from Novartis rivals Kite Pharma and Juno Therapeutics, come with the risk of potentially deadly side effects such as cytokine - release syndrome (CRS), in which a glut of T - cell - assisting cytokines can cause high fever, low blood pressure, and problems with lung oxygenation.

Not exact matches

Steven Pavletic, who heads the Graft - versus - Host and Autoimmunity Section at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, says the standard treatments — corticosteroids such as prednisone — «carpet bomb» the immune system, causing a host of side effects and weakening the immune response to potentially deadly infections.

And while a study of 200 to 300 arthritis patients is large enough to show whether a new drug relieves pain, just one such study isn't large enough to pick up less - common — but potentially deadly — side effects.