Sentences with phrase «standard drugs given»

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversees the standards used in preparing the materials for allergy shots given in the United States.

When you ask him the standard questions about how he avoided getting involved with drugs and street gangs and the usual teenage trouble, he gives you a strange look and says, «It never occurred to me.»

While the Food and Drug Administration provides standards to give an organic seal to foods, they do not make any claims that organic food is more nutritious or safe than non-organic.

Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has given a 24 - hour ultimatum to officials of National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON),...

The team evaluated doses that were predicted to give drug levels that were 2 times and 4 times higher than the standard dose.

With support from the Wellcome Trust, the Global Fund, and BMGF, the team identifies villages that are «hot spots» of transmission and then gives everyone the standard 3 - day course of DHA - PPQ and one dose of primaquine, a drug that targets another stage of the parasite's life cycle, each month for 3 months.

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 bill would've given the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to prohibit the use of certain ingredients, including carcinogens and reproductive and developmental toxins, to recall products that fail to meet safety standards, and to require product labels to name each ingredient.

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

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.

In one, at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, nine patients were given Reolysin plus the standard anti-cancer drugs paclitaxel and carboplatin.

At the start of the trial, in July, the population of all villages received one dose of ivermectin and another drug, albendazole; this standard combination is given twice yearly around Burkina Faso to control elephantiasis and soil - transmitted worms.

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.

«Given the strong associations identified, there is some justification for establishing a standard battery of screens for gambling, alcohol, drug and violence issues in a range of mental health and addictions settings.»

Following a tissue graft transplant — such as that of the face, hand, arm or leg — it is standard for doctors to immediately give transplant recipients immunosuppressant drugs to prevent their body's immune system from rejecting and attacking the new body part.

Researchers have found that people with advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and the KRAS - variant inherited genetic mutation have significantly improved survival when given a short course of the drug cetuximab in combination with standard chemotherapy and radiation.

Nor did the article give a hint of the ferocious battle among doctors about the safety and efficacy of tPA: While a number of professional associations endorsed the drug, many others, such as the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, said it should not be considered the standard of care for acute stroke.

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.

Researchers gave them a series of drug challenges and spirometry tests (the standard diagnostic methods for asthma) to confirm or rule out the disorder.

For the research, 112 individuals aged 60 years or older having major depression were given the drug escitalopram, a standard depression treatment, for about a month.

Having said that, we did not even go ahead to give the drug to our respondents since it would have been a straight case of unethical standards on our part.

Standard medical doctors said I had IBS and wanted to give me another impressive list of drugs to take daily for the rest of my life which I was strongly against.

Add to this that people undergoing standard medical treatment options for autoimmune disorders are given steroids and immune - suppressing drugs.

«Lucy» is a combination of the title character's superhuman powers and a standard gangster melodrama, the former given life by a gorgeous series of psychedelic images and imaginative, fantasy scenes, while the latter exhibits groups of Taiwanese thugs with AK - 47's, a drug mob that kidnaps people and forces them to work as drug mules by implanting whole plastic bags of blue powder into their stomachs.

After a drug fueled trip to the hospital, he is diagnosed with HIV and given the standard 30 days to live.

The other half were not given the drug, but received the same standard treatment.