Sentences with phrase «standard drugs also»

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There are also forums dedicated to policy issues such as drug pricing and medical standards — last year, former Vice President Joe Biden announced a federal Genomic Data Commons to expedite cancer research during a keynote address.

The administration has also unveiled policies to prevent drug shortages, raise fuel economy standards and cut refinancing fees for federally insured mortgages.»

While professional milk banks have established their own standards to help ensure that their supplies are safe, online breast milk networks and advertising have also emerged virtually without regulation, though the Food and Drug Administration warns against using milk procured online.

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.

Das explained that since the compounds they've developed make cancer cells more sensitive to attack, they also remove resistance to standard chemotherapy drugs — a serious problem in current therapies.

In addition, TGen laboratory research also found that PPF increases the effectiveness of a standard - of - care chemotherapy drug called temozolomide (TMZ), and radiation, to treat glioblastoma.

The committee was split evenly on whether the development of a vaccine to prevent hepatitis C would also meet the standard, but agreed that under the criteria neither development of a therapeutic vaccine nor of drugs to treat hepatitis C could justify the use of chimpanzees.

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.

They enrolled 280 patients in a trial that compared the standard eflornithine regimen with one in which only 14 infusions of that drug were given over a week's time, combined with 10 days of nifurtimox, an oral drug licensed against Chagas disease — which is also caused by Trypanosoma parasites — but not considered active enough as a standalone HAT drug.

All patients also received standard therapies such as drugs, heart - valve surgery, and specialized pacemakers.

Cilantro also lowered blood pressure by acting as a diuretic — a substance that promotes urine production — in an animal study published in the January 2008 «Journal of Ethnopharmacology,» in which it worked in a similar, though milder, manner to furosemide, a standard diuretic drug.

Gelatin is also the main constituent of gel caps, which have become a standard way of packaging both pharmaceutical drugs and nutritional supplements such as fish oil.

(I have read the studies that equate high LDL levels with heart disease, but I am also aware that for many of these patients the standard of care is to first address diet and exercise before cholesterol - lowering drugs are used.

They also test new drugs and surgical methods to improve the medical standards.

Many of these hotels are also equipped with restaurants which are required to meet the standards of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Those standards will also help screen out tenants with drug problems, and are perfectly legal as long as you apply them across the board and get prospective tenants to sign a «release of information.»

A Drug Recognition Expert («DRE») also administered standard sobriety tests to Mr. Bingley at the scene.

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In drug abuse treatment, a computer - based CBT system has also been developed and has been shown to be effective in helping reduce drug use following standard in - patient treatment.