Sentences with phrase «standard drug treatment»

When this article was first published, the curves in the graph showing the numbers of people not having relapses of schizophrenia, with standard drug treatment and with minimal treatment, were reversed.

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Drugs way nastier than marihuana (including methadona, heroine and other opium derivatives) are part of standard medical treatments; making marihuana a prescription drug is not an argument for marihuana legalization because that would mean being for the legalization of novocaine, morphine and all of the other nasty stuff.

«Experimental drug combined with standard chemo may shrink treatment - resistant ovarian cancers, animal study shows.»

Paclitaxel and another chemotherapy drug, carboplatin, are considered standard, first - line treatments for advanced ovarian cancer, experts say, and most patients respond to the drugs initially.

It's injected directly into the peritoneum through a catheter, which exposes the tumors to higher concentrations of the drug compared to standard IV paclitaxel treatment.

They compared the concentrations of proteins in the retinas of non-diabetic mice, of mice with type 2 diabetes without treatment and of type 2 diabetic mice that were treated with the standard drug metformin, which lowers blood glucose levels and thus reduces diabetes complications.

The drug, known under the brand name Nanotax, is a fine particle reformulation of paclitaxel, the standard treatment for ovarian cancer.

Since the 1960s, the gold - standard treatment for the disease has been the drug levodopa, also known as L - dopa, a dopamine precursor that can cross the blood - brain barrier.

Drug resistance experts applauded the suggestions to reduce unnecessary medication use and to improve standard treatment protocols when possible.

Research led by scientists at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute showed the drug and a potentiating agent lengthened the lives of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, all of whom had exhausted available standard treatments.

When he and his colleagues gave the mice the standard, maximum tolerated dose of the chemotherapy drug paclitaxel, the tumours roared back as soon as the treatment was stopped.

The team gave 137 women with breast cancer either T - DM1 or the standard treatment of Herceptin plus another drug, docetaxel.

While patients often improve on the drug and live longer than they would on standard treatment (results will be presented Sunday at ASCO), the drug, vemurafenib, usually stops working within a year.

Ninety - seven percent of bariatric surgery patients avoided post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV) with the addition of a second drug to the standard treatment given during surgery, according to a study presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY ™ 2013 annual meeting.

To study nanodiamonds» usefulness for cancer treatment, Ho's group attached them to doxorubicin, a standard chemotherapy drug, and injected them into mice with drug - resistant breast and liver cancer.

Over the past few years, drugs that target VEGF have become a standard treatment for DME, providing a preferred alternative or adjunct to laser treatment.

Exploiting the same pre-clinical model used for their studies, the researchers are testing the efficacy of this kind of drug candidates against cancer stem cells, and the possibility of identifying combination regimens with standard chemotherapies with minimized toxic effects, with the perspective of their possible application for the treatment of human breast cancer.

It could in future allow the PARP inhibitor olaparib to become a standard treatment for advanced prostate cancer, by targeting the drug at the men most likely to benefit, picking up early signs that it might not be working, and monitoring for the later development of resistance.

The treatment arm received palbociclib together with standard of care for this population, fulvestrant, a drug that blocks the hormone receptor via a different mechanism than first - line therapies.

Every year, nearly 2,000 people in Switzerland are diagnosed with lymphoma, a disease that can be very aggressive, resisting standard treatments with chemotherapeutic drugs.

At the end of treatment, the women who received the drug reported a 21 - point reduction on a standard scale of depression symptoms, compared with about 9 points for the women on a placebo.

In elderly cancer patients like my father and aunt, who suffer from a variety of chronic health problems, physicians often modify standard treatment regimens — perhaps using two chemotherapy drugs instead of three or lowering standard dosages — in the hope that the revised treatment will work well enough.

In most cases, this condition can be controlled with the standard treatment for hypothyroidism, a drug called levothyroxine.

No one knows why the three - drug combination is better than the standard two - drug treatment.

After six months of treatment with edaravone on top of standard - of - care, data showed the intravenous drug reduced the rate of functional decline in patients by about a third, Dr Jean Hubble, VP of medical affairs, at Mitsubishi Tanabe's U.S. unit MT Pharma America Inc (MTPA), said.

For patients with cervical cancer that has recurred after treatment or has spread elsewhere in the body, adding the experimental drug cediranib to standard chemotherapy improves tumour shrinkage and adds a modest improvement in progression - free survival, researchers report at the ESMO 2014 Congress in Madrid.

The standard treatment regimen for drug - sensitive tuberculosis comprises four different drugs.

Shkreli's defiant decision to raise the price of Daraprim, a drug that dates to the 1950s and is the standard treatment for a life - threatening parasitic infection, from $ 13.50 to $ 750 per tablet overnight, helped spark more than a year of public outrage and political fulminating against high drug prices.

The drug might eventually provide a therapeutic alternative or complement to standard antibiotic treatment.

Well - designed, placebo - controlled trials of the drug in men who do not meet the standard criteria for treatment have been scant in number, and their results have been inconsistent.

All patients also received standard medical therapy throughout the trial, which in a vast majority of cases included treatment with statins or other cholesterol - lowering drugs.

The drug lenvatinib can significantly improve overall survival rates in a group of thyroid cancer patients whose disease is resistant to standard radioiodine treatment, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

What's more, after 4 days of starting treatment on favipiravir, an influenza drug, 51 % of these patients had such low levels of the virus in their blood that the standard test could no longer detect it.

Respondents claim that even though they are Government contractor employees, and even though they are working with highly expensive scientific equipment, and even though the Government is seeking only information about drug treatment and information from third parties that is standard in background checks, and even though the Government is liable for damages if that information is ever revealed, and even though NASA's Privacy Act regulations are very protective of private information, NASA's background checks are unconstitutional.

Ibogaine's promise is that it works better than standard drug addiction treatments, though it has serious dangers and is illegal in many countries, including the United States.

MIAMI BEACH — A new drug has been shown to cure laboratory mice of tuberculosis much more quickly than standard treatments.

Many standard cancer treatments, including chemotherapy drugs and radiation therapy, damage the DNA of rapidly dividing cancer cells.

Citing the number of great successes medical research has brought us — lifesaving drugs from penicillin to insulin, along with invaluable treatments and medical devices — he adds, «It's one more reason why we have to be appropriately skeptical, unafraid to speak out about misleading claims, and insistent upon holding clinical research to the standards of science.»

Clomiphene citrate — a drug that stimulates ovulation — has been the standard treatment for decades.

Researchers found that the drugs, called Hsp90 inhibitors, specifically target and inactivate a mechanism commonly used by prostate cancer cells to evade the effects of standard treatment.

Some patients are resistant to treatment with the anti-anxiety drug diazepam (Valium), a standard first - line treatment for such poisoning, and its effectiveness decreases the longer the seizure lasts.

Ipilimumab is currently the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)- approved standard of care treatment for resected stage III melanoma in the United States.

We are a clinical - stage drug discovery and development company advancing innovative therapies to significantly advance the current standard of treatment for serious unmet medical needs.

A standard and inexpensive tuberculosis treatment regimen cut the overall TB rate in half and lowered the rate of drug - resistant cases even more dramatically in a remote Mexican health district with...

«Basically,» explained MDI President, Kevin Strange, Ph.D., «the current standard of treatment for a heart attack, assuming you survive it, is you in effect spend the rest of your life being treated with drugs and other sorts of approaches to try and prevent a secondary heart attack and to try and prevent heart failure.

But these epigenetic drugs have shown some success in improving patients» response to chemotherapy or immunotherapy, or in overcoming resistance to those standard treatments.

The international early Phase II trial led by a team based at the Oxford Cancer Research Centre will trial the experimental drug called LY2181308 with advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients who no longer respond to platinum chemotherapy - the standard initial treatment for this group.

Hoge hopes ultimately to expand the study of mindfulness - related treatments to other psychiatric conditions, and to compare such treatments to standard psychiatric drug therapies.

The drug, a monoclonal antibody called ipilimumab, is the first treatment of any kind ever shown in a large, randomized phase III clinical study (study MDX010 - 20) to improve overall survival in patients with metastatic melanoma who no longer respond to standard therapy.

The drug's manufacturer, Roche, said trials in these patients have shown that giving pertuzumab in combination with the drugs trastuzumab (Herceptin) and docetaxel could extend survival by nearly 16 months compared to standard treatment.