Sentences with phrase «studied a medication called»

We've studied a medication called «guanfacine,» which was originally developed as a blood pressure medication.

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They have a vested interest in publishing studies that promote the use of their medications and failing to publish study results that call the efficacy or safety of their drugs into question.

A study care manager regularly called patients in the intervention group to provide basic psycho - education; encourage healthy habits (sleep, exercise, avoid excess alcohol); assess treatment preferences for anti-anxiety medications; monitor response to treatment; and inform their primary care physicians of their care preference and progress.

There's some evidence that those medications might also help relieve pain, though Lichtman calls those studies a «mixed bag.»

The treatment in the current study, called autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHSCT), was given to patients with advanced forms of the disease that had failed to respond to other medications.

Compared to people taking another class of diabetes medications called sulfonylureas, those taking metformin had a 20 percent reduced risk of developing dementia over the five - year study period.

It asked whether the researchers had obtained a license for a copyrighted questionnaire, called the Eight - Item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS - 8), that they'd used in the study.

Scientists reported Tuesday on two new studies showing that the medications, which marshal the body's own immune defenses, are now having some effect against recurrent, difficult - to - treat head and neck cancer and an extremely lethal skin cancer called Merkel cell carcinoma.

«IKKs are one of the most heavily sought after drug targets today, because pharmaceutical companies want safe and effective medications to treat the pain of arthritis, now that the safety of COX - 2 inhibitors, like Celebrex and Vioxx, have been called into question,» says Salk researcher Vinay Tergaonkar who was involved in the zebrafish study.

San Francisco, CA — In a finding with the potential to fundamentally change strategies to slow the global HIV epidemic, a new study called iPrEx shows that individuals at high risk for HIV infection who took a single daily tablet containing two widely used HIV medications, emtricitabine and tenofov

According to Dr. Joel Kahn, a cardiologist and professor in our Advanced Functional Nutrition Training, «a group called the Cochrane Database Review looked at studies of CoQ10 for hypertension and found an average 11 mmHg BP drop, which is similar to many prescription medications.»

Grams said the study authors tried to address that concern by comparing PPI users to people using another heartburn medication called H2 blockers.

A type of heartburn medication called proton pump inhibitors may be linked to long - term kidney damage, a new study suggests.

A group called the Cochrane Database Review looked at studies of CoQ10 for hypertension and found an average 11 mmHg BP drop, similar to many prescription medications.

A 2013 study on rats at the University of Michigan Health System suggests tart cherries provide similar benefits as a class of drugs called PPAR agonists, which are medications prescribed for metabolic syndrome, a group of symptoms that present a cardiovascular risk.

In this study, researchers recruited 47 medication - free (some as little as one week) melancholic depressive inpatients and assessed their levels of identified genes in a population of white blood cells called monocytes.

Toups referenced a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that looked at the effect of whole grains on patients taking cholesterol - lowering medications called statins.

Each dog in the study was given a medication called 4 - aminopyridine (4 - AP).

Under the program state residents can submit a simple application to the program (including medication regimen and financial information), which is reviewed by program pharmacists who study the eligibility criteria and / or directly call the manufacturer's program personnel to help evaluate eligibility for particular PAPS.