Sentences with phrase «researchers studying the drug»

While Dr. Joseph led this study, he is a part of a team of international researchers studying the drug, which he says has offered patients with metastatic melanoma «truly impressive results.»

To find out whether an oral form of minoxidil can remodel the vessel's wall to reduce blood vessel stiffness and enhance blood flow to the brain, researchers studied the drug's effects in mice.

Not exact matches

A peer - reviewed study by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, published recently in The International Journal of Drug Policy, pegged the retail value of marijuana consumption in B.C. alone at between $ 443 million and $ 564 million.

After fighting unsuccessfully to reverse generic drug laws last year, and the sudden resignation of its CEO, Shoppers Drug Mart has suffered a 17 % drop in «brand value,» to $ 2.6 billion, according to a study conducted by researcher Interbrdrug laws last year, and the sudden resignation of its CEO, Shoppers Drug Mart has suffered a 17 % drop in «brand value,» to $ 2.6 billion, according to a study conducted by researcher InterbrDrug Mart has suffered a 17 % drop in «brand value,» to $ 2.6 billion, according to a study conducted by researcher Interbrand.

«By having 1 million individual users you can get to a scale where researchers are running data queries through 23andMe, where drug studies leverage our data, and where individuals can more easily be connected to studies that could benefit them,» Wojcicki said.

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.

The institute, which includes over 40 laboratories and more than 300 researchers, said the research would focus on modifying a patient's own immune system T - cells to target a tumor, studying ways to boost patient response to current immunotherapy drugs.

For future studies, they suggested, researchers should test the performance of doped chess players given a much longer time limit, so the study could isolate the positive effects of brain drugs.

The Bayer researchers were drowning in bad studies, and it was to this, in part, that they attributed the mysteriously declining yields of drug pipelines.

As recently as February researchers with the US Food and Drug Administration ran a study that mimicked the small doses of BPA that people may come into contact with.

In this study, and in opposition to findings elsewhere, higher levels of social support were associated with greater depressive symptomatology, leading researchers to speculate that for low - income men the perceived costs of reciprocity may have deterred them from utilizing available support; or that peer groups may have influenced their alcohol or drug use, or placed demands on their resources (Anderson et al, 2005).

Researchers have shown that many teens are incorrect about what their peers are doing in the areas of sex, drugs and studying.

The transgender woman in this study continued to take spironolactone, and androgen blockade, while breastfeeding (the researchers noted an insignificant trace of the drug was found in her breastmilk).

The researchers also found that many of the studies showed that children who had restrictive parents were less likely to get involved in negative behaviors such as cyberbullying, drug use, vandalism, and theft, and were less likely to have poor body image — factors the study authors called «negative consumer socialization outcomes.»

These are some of the recommendations contained in a study produced by Spanish researchers on methods for detecting medicines and drugs in breast milk.

She also instinctively bends her legs completing the protective space around the baby, making it impossible for another person to roll onto the baby without first coming into contact with her legs.15, 16 A breastfeeding mother who co-sleeps with her baby (and has not consumed alcohol, illegal or sleep - inducing drugs or extreme fatigue) also tends to be highly responsive to her baby's needs.17, 18 Studies show more frequent arousals in both mothers and babies when they co-sleep, and some researchers have suggested that this may be protective against sudden unexpected infant deaths.19 — 21 Babies are checked by their mother and breastfeed more frequently when co-sleeping than when room - sharing.22, 23

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

This study, performed by Swansea University researchers of 48,000 women who gave birth to healthy (singleton) babies over 10 years, found that women who took these drugs had a 7 % chance of lowered milk production.

Since then an advisory committee to the US Food and Drug Administration has been studying whether the process is safe, after a Portland researcher said he had conducted the technique successfully on monkeys - and now wanted to begin trying it on humans.

While ZMapp seemed to help more people survive an Ebola infection, it narrowly missed the statistical threshold that researchers set to prove the drug's effectiveness, according to the new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The sacks could be used as a new way to deliver drugs, say the researchers, whose study appears in the current issue of Science.

A new study published by researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago suggests that the drug oseltamivir — commonly known as Tamiflu — does not cause an increased risk of suicide in pediatric patients.

Researchers looked at data on 74 300 patient who received metformin and sulfonylurea, another common diabetes drug, over a 25 - year study period.

The researchers injected either the antisense drug or a placebo into the study participants» spinal fluid — a 20 - minute procedure similar to those that deliver epidural anesthesia to women in labor.

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.

Further, the effect was so strong in some participants that it was nearly comparable to that achieved with drugs specifically prescribed to treat gout, a new study led by Johns Hopkins researchers shows.

In the study, the researchers loaded a hydrogel — a half - inch disc made of a biodegradable sugar naturally found in the human body — with drugs that activate dendritic cells.

In the study, published online today by Science Translational Medicine, researchers removed breast tumors from mice and placed biodegradable gels containing an immune - stimulating drug in the resulting empty space.

In a recent study, working with a team of researchers, Danino demonstrated that bacteria in pancreatic tumors degrade a chemotherapy drug — Gemcitabine — most commonly used to treat patients who have pancreatic cancer.

An experimental drug in early development for aggressive brain tumors can cross the blood - brain tumor barrier, kill tumor cells and block the growth of tumor blood vessels, according to a study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James).

The researchers then studied wastewater samples from 10 cities throughout the United States, testing for 14 illicit, prescription, and nonprescription drugs including heroine, cocaine, methamphetamine, and oxycodone.

A new study by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James) has identified a mechanism by which cancer cells develop resistance to a class of drugs called fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) inhibitors.

Now that researchers know from their cell studies that this family of receptors can essentially flip its own switch, they can use that information to design drugs to prevent that from happening when it shouldn't.

Tissue engineering provides a more practical means for researchers to study cell behavior, such as cancer cell resistance to therapy, and test new drugs or combinations of drugs to treat many diseases.

In two studies, Freiburg researchers have made new discoveries concerning the relationship between CML and Gab2 and drugs that can break a particular resistance to Gab2 in CML cells.

In the short term, such artificial tissues could help researchers study disease processes and test new drugs in the lab.

The researchers also plan to use this technology to study drug resistance and are developing additional platforms to guide decision making in the clinic.

As an MSL, he spent most of his time synthesizing information from drug studies and preparing and delivering symposia and seminars to physicians, researchers, and medical societies.

Researchers from the Arthritis Research UK Centre for Genetics and Genomics at The University of Manchester, who led the study, warned that failure to take the drugs correctly, known as «non-adherence», reduced their effectiveness and may lead to a worsening of patients» disease.

Next, researchers would like to study how the two - drug approach works in humans, although no clinical trials have yet been designed or scheduled.

Anti-malaria drugs were routinely administered to all patients seen at the Treatment Unit during the Ebola outbreak and had no bearing on the increased survival in Plasmodium - infected patients in the study, the researchers say.

He notes that the drug may reduce the anxiety and insomnia that often accompany alcohol withdrawal, which might ease the transition to sobriety, but adds that researchers can not accurately predict who might benefit from the drug absent a larger study.

Patients with chronic wounds who never receive opioids heal faster than those who do receive the drugs, according to a new study by George Washington University (GW) researcher Victoria Shanmugam, M.D.

The researchers will soon launch a three - month clinical study to test sperm counts in men taking the drug.

Because the subjects in these closely watched studies are at such a high risk, researchers should know within the next few years if the experimental drugs will halt or delay the onset of the disease.

They are helping researchers study how drugs work against the swine flu virus and how space and time warp around colliding black holes.

According to the study's lead researcher, geneticist Albert La Spada of the University of California, San Diego, «the prospect of an oral drug is conceivable.»

The upshot, say Workman and others, is that many probes produce spurious results that can lead researchers to wrong conclusions about the proteins and drug molecules they are studying.

The discovery of an unexpected biochemical link within tumor cells should lead to clinical trials for experimental drug treatments that indirectly target myc and that already are being evaluated in human studies, the researchers said.

Many patients and physicians assume that the safety and effectiveness of newly approved drugs is well understood by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-- but a new study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine shows that the clinical trials used by the FDA to approve new drugs between 2005 and 2012 vary widely in their thoroughness.