Sentences with phrase «reduce use of the drug»
Beyond being conscientious with our own bodies, we should also urge farmers to reduce their use of these drugs.
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Knowing how these small potassium channels work could help reduce the use of drugs in patients with chronic inflammatory pain.
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It would attain the long - standing goal of universal coverage against the cost of pharmaceuticals, and it would reduce the high costs that Canadian pay today for the drugs they use, through taxes, insurance premiums, and out of pocket.
In order to reduce individual violence as well as drug use, we have created a prison population of two million.
Everyone needs to be taught the right use of other drugs such as digestion aids, cathartics, reducing pills, stimulants, pain relievers, and tranquilizers.
In this atmosphere in which sanctioned drug use has become the norm, perhaps the most abused drugs of all are the corticosteroids, which kill pain by reducing inflammation in the joints (bute, by contrast, is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory).
Public Health Service Task Force recommendations for use of antiretroviral drugs in pregnant HIV - infected women for maternal health and interventions to reduce perinatal HIV transmission in the United States.
Hassall found that the use of proton pump inhibitors, a group of drugs meant to reduce gastric acid production, grew exponentially for babies less than a year old over the past decade.
Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37
It's also known to calm red cheeks and reduce drooling in teething infants and tots without having to resort to the use of drugs.
Mrs. Alarbi said studies showed that for babies born to HIV - infected mothers, the use of niverapine drug combined with baby formulas to prevent mother - to - child transmission, could reduce child mortality to only two per cent of under - five mortality and morbidity while the use of insecticide - treated bed nets could reduce it by six per cent.
Natural Childbirth is a method of giving birth to a baby in which the mother chooses not to use drugs to reduce pain or to make the birthing process happen more quickly.
The benefits of such a system would be to «dry up illegal black markets,» reduce the burden on law enforcement and use the cannabis tax to finance drug prevention, education and rehabilitation.
Proposals that would have ensured appropriate use of personal care services, rationalized reimbursement for home care services, strengthened Medicaid's ability to recover from estates and further reduced prescription drug costs were rejected by the Legislature.
DrugScope also welcomed the Council's decision that community orders should be considered as a realistic alternative to prison for drug dependent individuals, and questioned once again whether using the criminal justice system to respond to offences of drug possession was «the most effective way to reduce drug - related harms both to individuals and the wider community.»
Mission: To prevent or delay the onset of alcohol and other drug use, and to eliminate or reduce the high - risk use of drugs and alcohol through the application and principles of risk reduction and building - resiliency.
«So we will develop diversionary programmes to take users out of the criminal justice system altogether, ensure that those who need treatment get it, and find more effective ways to reduce or end their drug use.
The Home Office has been accused of «serial failure» after the revelation that it has missed its targets on cutting crime, reducing young people's drug use and reoffending.
Burning the drugs prevents the medications from entering landfills, being disposed of by flushing the pills down the toilet, prevents illicit and illegal use as well as reduces the risk of accidental poisoning of our children and elderly.
According to emergency responders, as a result of the local ban on synthetic drugs and bath salts, (voted into law by the Saugerties Town Board on March 29, 2012), hospitalizations resulting from overdoses caused by the use of these substances have been significantly reduced.
The program includes an overview of the problems surrounding drug use in Central New York and the Southern Tier as well as best practices for reducing the harms associated with drug use in non-urban areas.
To be effective and reduce recurrence of cancer in the prostate, researchers found that prescribing PARP inhibitors, a drug commonly used in breast cancer, alongside anti-hormone therapy treatment may benefit men with prostate cancer.
For this study the researchers targeted very specific types of GABA receptors to improve social behaviors with clonazepam, but the team also found that by using a different drug, they could target other GABA receptors and actually reduce the ability to socially interact in normal mice — underscoring that future medications would need to target very specific receptors so as not to diminish the drug's impacts.
The patients in the elbasvir - grazoprevir group saw a reduced viral load, regardless of ongoing drug use.
Benner cautions that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen and aspirin also reduce fevers, but some NSAIDs are not safe to use during the later stages of pregnancy.
The rationale for using spironolactone - an inexpensive, generic, medication - stems from the pioneering research of Bertram Pitt, MD, University of Michigan School of Medicine, who showed the benefit of this class of drugs in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction, and who also served as chair of the TOPCAT Steering Committee.
The device can be used to directly test for toxicity and toxic mechanisms, screen for drugs that reduce irritation, and assess the level of risks associated with a particular air pollutant.
Interest in the drug's use in neuropsychiatric disorders began in the 1990s, when nicotine was seen to reduce the symptoms of Tourette's syndrome.
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.
They aim to reduce the harmful use of prohibited drugs and facilitate access to these drugs for medical and scientific purposes.
The analysis found that statins were more likely to reduce the risk of death when LDL cholesterol levels were 100 milligrams per deciliter (mg / dl) or greater, whether or not they were used with other LDL - lowering drugs.
Visualization of computer model showing HIV risk behaviors; red dots are injection drug users that engage in needle sharing or unprotected sex; courtesy of Brandon Marshall / Brown University Condom use, earlier treatment and increased education have gone a long way to reducing HIV spread in the U.S.
«This approach works by reducing viral replication, which suggests there might be a treatment window that lasts several days in which drugs could be used to reduce the infection and risk of complications,» Thomas said.
A statin drug commonly used to lower cholesterol is not effective in reducing the number and severity of flare ups from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to the results of a large multicenter clinical trial designed and directed by Gerard J. Criner, MD, Director of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA..
New research in mice indicates that a drug commonly used to suppress the immune system in recipients of organ transplants may also reduce tissue damage and neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury.
With no simple solution in sight, Salyers continues to advise government agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture to reduce the use of antibiotics in livestock feed, a practice banned throughout the European Union.
The number of conditions that several other drugs can be used for has also been reduced.
Nine of these studies showed significant benefits of psychosocial interventions in patients being treated with methadone, including reduced drug use and increased treatment attendance.
Health complications that often plague people living with HIV, and can prove fatal, might be reduced with the help of a drug already used to treat kidney disease — if it works as well in people as it does in monkeys.
«We then asked, if we could reduce production of BH4 using a drug, could we bring about reduction of pain?»
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs), the most widely used drugs for the treatment of depression, have been reported to reduce bone formation and increase the risk of bone fracture.
Unlike most forms of drug addiction, there are no medical treatments to help people reduce their cannabis use.
To reduce their risk of developing kidney disease, patients should be attentive to their blood pressure and keep it under control, maintain a diet that isn't high in salt; avoid or reduce use of medications that are directly toxic to the kidneys; including nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; and get their rheumatoid arthritis and inflammation under as good of control as possible, he adds.
However, when the researchers used drugs or mouse mutations that reduced the number of monocytes or removed TNF, they were able to restore antibacterial immunity in aged mice.
«Early, efficient detection and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis using new delivery system: Selective delivery of drugs into inflamed joint tissue may improve tolerability and reduce treatment costs.»
«Our ultimate goal is to engineer microbes to make new versions of these antibiotics for our use, which will drastically reduce the amount of time and money necessary for new drug testing and development,» says Gavin Williams, associate professor of bio-organic chemistry at NC State and corresponding author of a paper describing the research.
A team of researchers at the University of Georgia has developed a non-invasive method of delivering drugs directly to cancerous tissue using magnetic forces, a form of treatment that could significantly reduce the toxic side effects of chemotherapy.
In a novel animal study design that mimicked human clinical trials, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that long - term treatment using a small molecule drug that reduces activity of the brain's stress circuitry significantly reduces Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology and prevents onset of cognitive impairment in a mouse model of the neurodegenerative condition.
Remarkable advances in UNDERSTANDING THE PATHOGENESIS and natural history of HIV disease facilitated the rapid development of antiretroviral drugs that have dramatically reduced HIV - related suffering and death wherever they have been used.
In their report that has received advance online publication in Nature Nanotechnology, a research team based at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) describes how a nanomedicine that combines photodynamic therapy — the use of light to trigger a chemical reaction — with a molecular therapy drug targeted against common treatment resistance pathways reduced a thousand-fold the dosage of the molecular therapy drug required to suppress tumor progression and metastatic outgrowth in an animal model.