Sentences with phrase «studied drugs available»

Oral contraceptives are among the best - studied drugs available, with more than 50 years of research backing their safety.

Not exact matches

While the new mid-stage study results from DNDi were impressive (they showed cure rates of 96 % to 97 % even for the sickest patients and those with liver scarring), more late - stage trials will be necessary before the drug is available on a large scale in the developing world.

Phase I funding — which allows up to $ 250,000 for an academic idea, such as decoding the genetic sequence of a protein or studying targeted drug delivery by using magnetic nanoparticles — is available from federal funding and foundations.

However, Spicer then signaled that the White House sees recreational pot very differently, with the press secretary even attempting to link recreational use of the drug to the abuse of opioid drugs across the U.S. (In fact, there has been little scientific evidence linking marijuana legalization to opioid use, with some studies actually showing a decrease in opioid overdoses in states where legal marijuana is available.)

According to Living Goods, clients may also be reluctant to buy drugs from other private providers because of the risk of getting a counterfeit medicine.63 Living Goods sent us a study conducted at the midline of its RCT that claims that both availability of counterfeit drugs and drug prices decreased at private retailers in areas where CHPs worked.64 According to the study, about 37 % of private drug shops in the areas it studied sold fake ACT drugs, 65 and availabilty of fake ACTs was about 50 % lower among non-Living Goods sellers in the areas where Living Goods worked.66 Additional results on these potential effects will be made available when the full RCT is published.

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).

The Academy spent years analyzing all of the available research and ethical issues to develop its official position on the «study drug» matter.

«According to the US Food and Drug Administration, the scientific evidence is «mixed» over the benefits of adding ARA and DHA to baby formula, with no currently available published studies on the long - term impact.

The study crunched the numbers in the United Nations World Drug Report 2017, along with the most recent population data available, and worked on the assumption that the average joint weighs 0.66 grams.

Stacy Salomonsen - Sautel, Ph.D, who was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Pharmacology, is the lead author of the study, which is available online in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

A one - two combo punch using two currently available drugs could be an effective treatment for the majority of lung cancers, a study by scientists with UT Southwestern's Simmons Cancer Center shows.

Using a novel combination of technologies, including trio exome sequencing of patient / parental DNA and genetic studies in the tiny larvae of zebrafish, the EuroEPINOMICS RES consortium found that mutations in the gene CHD2 are responsible for a subset of epilepsy patients with symptoms similar to Dravet syndrome — a severe form of childhood epilepsy that is in many patients resistant to currently available anti-epileptic drugs.

Other experimental options include: — AVI - 7537, a drug designed to block viral protein from being made, has shown human tolerability in early studies and could have 100 courses available by early 2015.

As no relevant study is available for comparison with the appropriate comparator therapy, the benefit assessment of the drug manufacturer is based on its own deliberations and assumptions, for which, however, a valid data basis is lacking.

Instead, the study showed that an existing drug (an antibody that targets EGFR) could be used, indicating that there may be a ready - made treatment available.

Some of the best data available show that people who start drinking as adolescents and drink more heavily then are more likely to have problems with alcohol and drug abuse later in life, says Ilene Bernstein, a neuroscientist at the University of Washington, Seattle, and the senior author of the new study.

The study used a well - known line of pancreatic cancer cells (AsPC - 1) in the laboratory and assessed how well this grew when treated with either the chemotherapy drug gemcitabine or different levels of commercially available chokeberry extract alone, and when treated with a combination of gemcitabine and chokeberry extract.

«Even before we have drugs available to regulate the circadian clock, one might propose that high - risk patients should preferentially be operated on in the afternoon,» Dr. Thomas Bochaton and Dr. Michel Ovize, both French cardiologists, wrote in an editorial released alongside the study Thursday.

The key findings of both studies were in agreement: in order for a nascent pandemic to be controlled there needs to be 3 million courses of oseltamivir (Tamiflu)-- the antiviral drug — available for the World Health Organization to mobilise and deploy internationally, immediately.

«Many of those medications are for life - threatening conditions, and for some drugs no substitute is available,» said Dr. Jess Pines, senior author of the Academic Emergency Medicine study.

Among the modification options available, one drug therapy is associated with lower costs for follow - up doctor visits and hospitalizations, according to a new study led by a University of Florida researcher.

«There are some drugs available for treating type 2 diabetes, but there are still gaps in our knowledge about what causes it,» says Alan Saghatelian, Ph.D., who is at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

«This is the first study to test the promise of a new kind of drug, olaparib, for life - threatening prostate cancer no longer responding to best available treatment.

The study, published in the newest special issue of Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, was mentioned in a presentation on the topic of medical marijuana to the New Mexico Legislative Health & Human Services Committee last November, and is now available from Routledge Journals with Free Access.

The new study picks up at a time when potent cocktails of drugs became available.

The virus with this mutation remains sensitive to the antiviral drugs, oseltamivir and zanamivir, and studies show that currently available pandemic vaccines confer protection.

He cautioned, however, that further studies must be done to confirm this potential, and a commercially available drug is many years off.

They will then test in vivo (in animals) their combination of drugs on the best mouse model available to study lipofuscin - mediated retinal degeneration.

Guidance from an innovative computational approach could speed up the process and cut down the cost of new drug development, researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center and Columbia University suggest in a study to be published in the February 2008 issue of Genome Research, available early online.

In a study to be published in the May 23 print issue of the journal Small (and currently available online [abstract]-RRB-, they demonstrate the ability to package drug - loaded «nanodisks» into vault nanoparticles, naturally occurring nanoscale capsules that have been engineered for therapeutic drug delivery.

«The use of TMS could be a major step forward in patients in whom presently available drug treatment is ineffective, poorly tolerated, or contraindicated,» Hans - Christoph Diener, MD, of University Hospital Essen, in Germany, noted in an editorial accompanying the study.

One case study found that when a patient submitted to the ER ingested a commercially available diet pills containing the appetite suppressant phenylpropanolamine, the inhibition of prostaglandins caused by the drug resulted in extreme hypertension (19).

They used two measurements to gauge a drug's effectiveness and tolerability: the percentage of patients who showed at least a 50 % improvement in their symptoms as measured by one of two scales, or who scored «much improved or very much improved» after eight weeks of treatment (or from 6 to 12 weeks if eight - week data wasn't available) and the percentage of patients who dropped out of the study before eight weeks for any reason.

In my corner of the industry, all of our studies are focused on real world application of these products — that is to say, we are monitoring patients using drugs that have been approved and are available for regular consumption — not just a clinical trial.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE Outreach work Drug abuse Offenders Emotional support PTSD ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS University name - Degree details Study Dates College name - Qualifications Study Dates School name - Subjects / Grades Study Dates REFERENCES Available on request.

The selected course, Drug Counseling for Cocaine Addiction: The Collaborative Cocaine Treatment Study Model, is not currently available for public view.

In comparison with drug therapy only data from two studies about dropout rates were available, showing significant relative risk in favour of marital therapy.

This study uses Medicare Part D drug utilization and spending data to estimate potential Part D program and beneficiary savings on brand - name medications excluded by pharmacy benefit managers for which generic substitutes are available.