Sentences with phrase «studied the drug saying»

Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann, two presidential candidates who sparred over the issue of Texas vaccinations, may be floundering in the polls, but the topic of Merck's controversial Gardasil is heating up — with an Austrian physician who studied the drug saying it is not only dangerous, but useless in reducing cervical cancer, the stated reason it was administered to young girls at the behest of Gov. Perry.

Not exact matches

Says Bapty: «If a CRO is nimble and can evolve technology that can enable its clients to get a drug approved faster or to reduce the risk of a clinical study, or even save them development money in the long run, that company will find it has a long - term business plan.»

On May 30, Gilead said it found in four late - stage studies that its its drug, bictegravir, wasn't inferior to ViiV's dolutegravir.

«By having 1 million individual users you can get to a scale where researchers are running data queries through 23andMe, where drug studies leverage our data, and where individuals can more easily be connected to studies that could benefit them,» Wojcicki said.

«The DEA appears to be dragged into this kicking and screaming,» said Sanho Tree, director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank focused on social - justice issues.

Shares of Ligand Pharmaceuticals shed nearly 12 percent Tuesday after Amgen said its multiple myeloma drug, Kyprolis, did not outperform Takeda Pharmaceutical's Velcade in a late - stage study.

Shares of Ligand Pharmaceuticals plunged 12 percent Tuesday after Amgen said its multiple myeloma drug, Kyprolis, did not outperform Takeda Pharmaceutical's Velcade in a late - stage study.

The institute, which includes over 40 laboratories and more than 300 researchers, said the research would focus on modifying a patient's own immune system T - cells to target a tumor, studying ways to boost patient response to current immunotherapy drugs.

Pagan said that a larger, more comprehensive study must be done before determining the drug's true impact, but if the drug's effectiveness is confirmed in such tests, nilotinib could become the first treatment to impede the killing of brain cells that's consistent with Parkinson's, according to NPR.

In an editorial accompanying the new study, Dr. Wilson Compton of the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Bethesda, Maryland, and colleagues say policymakers need to understand which parts of medical marijuana laws are tied with positive and negative effects.

«The intensifying battle for negotiating power and market share will lead companies to do acquisitions across traditional industry boundary lines,» said Erik Gordon, a professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan who studies the drug industry.

A recent U.S. Government Accountability Office study said the FDA inspects foreign drug manufacturing facilities about once every 11 years.

Alnylam, which has been weighed down in the past by drug safety concerns, said it plans to initiate a program targeting cardiomyopathy - another symptom of the disease - alongside polyneuropathy in a late - stage study next year.

Credit Suisse analysts said patisiran's data seemed to have «solid safety» compared with Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc's rival drug, which cleared a key study but raised safety concerns.

The drug is presently in a third late - stage study, and Alkermes said it plans on updating investors on the progress of this remaining study later this year.

The study, published in the January edition of the British Journal of Psychiatry, says spiritual but not religious people, as opposed to people who are religious, agnostic or atheist, were more likely to develop a «mental disorder,» «be dependent on drugs» and «have abnormal eating attitudes,» like bulimia and anorexia.

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«They almost always use drug metaphors, like «higher than any high you can experience,» said Paul Williamson, a professor of psychology at Henderson State University in Arkansas who studies serpent handlers.

Joseph Califano Jr., president of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, said his group's study concluded that many dads are essentially AWOL when it comes to keeping their children drug free.

According to the Canadian Medical Association in response to a recent study that said Canadian women are not heeding pregnancy warnings about the use of isotretinoin, a potent but effective drug that treats severe acne.

«The current messages saying that bed sharing is dangerous only if you or your partner are smokers, have been drinking alcohol or taking drugs that make you drowsy, are very tired or the baby is premature or of low - birth weight, are not effective,» the authors wrote in the study, adding that doctors need to «take a more definitive stance against bed sharing for babies under three months».

«The general recommendation is to totally avoid drug abuse while breastfeeding, because these substances can pass directly through to the newborn,» Óscar García Algar, co-author of the study and a doctor in the Paediatrics Department at the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona, said.

Let's say the blogosphere is abuzz about a research study that shows that sleep - training methods like cry - it - out have no long - term effects on children or that physically punitive discipline tactics like spanking result in children who are better behaved or that birthing without drug pain relief is dangerous.

But critics argue that the study has not been peer reviewed or published in a scientific journal, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has said that food coming in contact with the chemical is safe, even in baby feeding bottles.

Mrs. Alarbi said studies showed that for babies born to HIV - infected mothers, the use of niverapine drug combined with baby formulas to prevent mother - to - child transmission, could reduce child mortality to only two per cent of under - five mortality and morbidity while the use of insecticide - treated bed nets could reduce it by six per cent.

Many women don't want to deliver in a hospital because they fear their choices — to avoid drugs, to avoid surgery, to be surrounded by their families, to be with the baby immediately after delivery — will be taken away, said Carolyn L. Gegor, program director of the Nurse Midwifery / Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Program in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at Georgetown University Medical Center.

Since then an advisory committee to the US Food and Drug Administration has been studying whether the process is safe, after a Portland researcher said he had conducted the technique successfully on monkeys - and now wanted to begin trying it on humans.

Bultman says The research has been difficult to weigh for health - care practitioners and doctors in part because some studies have focused on smoking the drug — which isn't allowed in New York or Minnesota.

Home secretary tried to alter 2014 study that found no link between tough laws and illegal drug use, says ex-deputy PM

The spokesperson also rejected the idea that the report, known as the International Comparators Study, said there was no link between tough penalties and drug use.

Since the neuronal death can be recapitulated in directly reprogrammed patient neurons, Yoo said the new technique offers a way to study the details of how potential therapies — including drugs that are currently being tested in clinical trials — could rescue medium spiny neurons from death.

He also said that the study showed it was possible to run a randomized, controlled trial in the middle of an international health emergency, which is important to make sure any new drugs do not cause more problems than they address.

Since gabapentin's release in 1993, there have been no human laboratory studies done on the drug, Vickers Smith said.

«I'd be surprised if playing online games for 10 to 12 hours a day didn't change the brain,» says neuroscientist Nora Volkow of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, who wasn't involved in the study.

The sacks could be used as a new way to deliver drugs, say the researchers, whose study appears in the current issue of Science.

«Our findings are consistent with previous studies showing an association between the legalization of medical marijuana and lower deaths from overdoses of opioids,» said Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, co-author of the study and co-director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center.

Strict drug laws have delayed those types of studies for decades, Slot said.

«The median percentage reduction in seizure frequency was more than 29 percent for patients on a low - dose regimen of everolimus and nearly 40 percent for patients with high - dose regimen to the drug,» says David Franz, MD, founding director of the TSC Clinic at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the study's senior author.

However, the US Food and Drug Administration says that, currently, «all approved high - intensity sweeteners have been thoroughly studied and have a reasonable certainty of no harm to consumers under their approved conditions of use».

New research finds flaws in a 2009 study that had provided hope and one scientist says CFS patients should stop taking antiretroviral drugs based on those findings

«The potential link between a drug and suicide is a particularly difficult topic to study,» Antoon said.

People with drug addictions who started opioid abuse later in life use injections for their drugs, or increased their use of downers before starting drug treatment, are more likely to relapse from treatment than others, says a new study from McMaster University.

Professor Adeeba Kamarulzaman, an author on the study from University of Malaya, Malaysia, said: «In recent years, compulsory drug detention centres in Malaysia and across Asia have come under scrutiny and question over their lack of effectiveness in treating addiction and their human rights transgressions.

«We approached this problem many years ago and have seen all kinds of studies, and there isn't anything definitive to say that antibiotics in livestock cause harm to people,» says Richard Carnevale, vice president of regulatory and scientific affairs at the Animal Health Institute, which represents the manufacturers of animal drugs, including those for livestock.

«It is exciting to have an expanded group of patients who are now eligible for this drug,» said Garon, whose clinical studies helped lead to today's FDA approval.

«If you were to develop a drug to treat PTSD, you'd want it to do exactly what MDMA does,» says Rick Doblin, founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), which funds and conducts the research.

Richard Hargreaves, executive director of imaging at Merck Research Laboratories, says, «Nuclear imaging using radiotracers gives the opportunity to put your arms around proof - of - concept very early in a drug discovery and development program by focusing the selection of doses to study on those proven to deliver enough drug to the target therapeutic sites.»

Writing in a linked Comment, Gino Vumbaca from Harm Reduction Australia, said: «Evidence on the effectiveness of compulsory and voluntary drug dependence treatment in the Asian region has been scarce and this study is a much needed addition to the evidence base that is required to inform policy making... The present study provides solid evidence in support of urgent need to expand availability of and access to evidence based voluntary drug dependence treatment approaches to all whom are affected by drug dependence.

«What's frightening about this emerging street drug is that users themselves may not be aware that they are ingesting it,» said lead study author John Stogner, Ph.D. of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, N.C. «A patient may report heroin use and have symptoms consistent with heroin overdose, but an emergency physician may find that the standard dose of antidote (naloxone) doesn't work.

The study is an important demonstration that a drug might be used to repair brain damage, Gallo says.