Sentences with phrase «to a particular drug»

The second method of diagnosis is a therapeutic trial involving administration of particular drugs, along with certain dietary changes.

Some locations make better sense for particular drug tests because of the prevalence of certain conditions and illnesses in those regions.

Second, the uptake of services was limited by the availability of services, in particular drug and alcohol services.

Calling such evidence, and making an undue hardship argument, remains open to defendants in future cases involving disputes over coverage of particular drugs.

«We are the first to publish these types of findings and, importantly it offers the opportunity to not only monitor the progress of the disease but also to determine if particular drugs / treatment are having an effect.»

But the debate has also brought an acknowledgment from Republicans in particular the drug abuse issue should go beyond law enforcement.

This month at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in London, Herman Goossens, director of the Laboratory of Medical Microbiology at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute of the University of Antwerp in Belgium, presented data about one type of commercial kit often used to identify particular drug - resistant pathogens.

In 2012, amendments to the CDSA added mandatory minimum penalties for particular drug offences in certain circumstances.

In the past, most Canadian biotechs were product focused — they attempted to commercialize a particular drug compound or device, with the inherent risks that it would fail in clinical trials or get upstaged by a competing product.

If a particular drug doesn't measure up, it won't keep cluttering drug formularies.

In other words, this particular drug market has all the factors in place to potentially produce a highly lucrative product.

If a particular drug is contraindicated during lactation, most always a suitable alternative can be found.

I was told on some occasions to stop because of the antibiotics I was on, but I rang the Drugs in Breastmilk helpline run by the BFN (Breastfeeding Network) and they told me I could still nurse with that particular drug, but that doctors were largely ill - informed and tended to err on what they would call «the safe side» ie to stop feeding and use formula!

Davies has previously said that criminalising drug use discourages users from seeking help but she always stops short of calling for the legislation of any particular drug.

One of the nagging problems facing law enforcement as it fights the synthetic drug epidemic is the time it takes to make a particular drug illegal.

The current method of prescribing medication now sometimes includes a pharmacogenomic approach, but researchers recognize the limitation of this approach in predicting a response to a particular drug and dosage combination.

This framework will expand to shed light on the variability of drug response based on information the medical community continues to gather about how an individual responds to a particular drug and dose combination.

To recapitulate that process, the Ludwig Brussels team engineered a mouse to express a cancer - causing gene and a cancer antigen known as P1A, but only when given a particular drug.

It can be used by forensics laboratories to determine the source of a particular drug sample.

He thinks inflammation could be responsible for the lack of new neurons and suggests that perhaps the particular drug that Godbout used didn't have a broad enough effect to restart neurogenesis.

Although many of these associations have not been well substantiated by scientific evidence, the heightened perception of possible drug - related adverse effects is suggested by the unusually high number of legal proceedings related to this particular drug.

«If we take one of these modified cells and treat it with a particular drug, if it doesn't produce light anymore, then this means the drug is a potential treatment for this disease,» Basu said.

For example, changes in certain genes could indicate that his cancer was more likely to respond to a particular drug, while other mutations might predict little benefit from a specific therapy.

Her postdoc is still unable to find the right conditions for administering the drug, and she is unsure who to credit for the idea of using that particular drug on Abc1 as she drafts her paper.

«Having a blood - based biomarker for good - response to anti-TNF treatment at three months would support timely switching in patients whose disease activity is not controlled by a particular drug, reducing the impact of long - term joint damage and facilitating more responsible spending on RA drug treatment.

Since then, a small but growing number of differences in drug metabolism have been linked to genetics, helping explain why some patients benefit from a particular drug, some gain nothing, and others suffer toxic side effects.

«Adaptive» clinical trials allow investigators to modify who is treated with a particular drug or device on the fly based on who responds to the treatment and who doesn't.

«Although we are disappointed that this particular drug did not prove successful, the field is benefiting from each study,» says lead author Lawrence Honig, MD, PhD, professor of neurology at CUIMC.

In 2005 Nature published details of this particular drug delivery.

Most of these alterations are useless, even detrimental, but occasionally a mutation may help the bacterium resist a particular drug.

«It's smaller plants that are using different technologies that are more agile and can shift from developing one medicine to another, it's the development of companion diagnostic technologies that will help identify the people that this particular drug will work best for,» he says, predicting that personalized medicine will create a «different dynamic in terms of how the industry is funded and how medicines are manufactured in the future.»

It's smaller plants that are using different technologies that are more agile and can shift from developing one medicine to another, it's the develop - ment of companion diagnostic technologies that will help identify the people that this particular drug will work best for.

However, there is no way to predict, by genetic markers or other means, how a patient will respond to a particular drug.

Therefore, as a patient's multiple myeloma becomes more resistant to particular drugs, continued drug screening could suggest when to change therapies.

Medical writers work on clinical trial protocols and reports (documenting research that is conducted to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of a particular drug), newsletters or materials for medical education programmes (describing a new drug to health care practitioners and to patients), and marketing materials promoting health care products or services.

For this reason it is vital that drug flow is fully understood before a particular drug is delivered via a skin patch.

That can be hard to do if, for example, officials did not know that a company changed the formulation of a particular drug.

John Overington, a computational chemical biologist at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Hinxton, U.K., is not convinced that these two particular drugs will get very far.

Although there were no cases of ASD among children of mothers who took ibuprofen, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, researchers could not ascertain whether risk was mitigated due to the extremely small number of women using this particular drug for fever.

While the study is limited to a drug used extensively in epilepsy and psychiatry, the implications of such findings extend beyond this particular drug, indicating that FDA standards for bioequivalence are appropriate.

By gaining an understanding of this underlying mechanism, this discovery has the potential to vastly help researchers learn what happens at the molecular level when this mechanism is disrupted — such as in cancer or when exposed to a particular drug.

But because the manufacturing process for mAbs and other biologics is so complex and is often patented, a maker of a biosimilar for a particular drug pretty much has to reinvent the wheel.

Initial work at the firm will involve research into a particular drug that, according to tests, can double the rate at which complex tissues in zebrafish regrow after amputation.

By placing a patient's cells in Organ - Chips and exposing those cells to a particular drug or series of drugs, clinicians could gain more accurate information about how that individual would respond to treatment, avoiding the risk of administering a drug that may cause harm or is ineffective and costly.

Having collected vast amounts of data and samples from melanoma patients over many years, the group is examining how genetic makeup, lifestyle and other factors like exposure to particular drugs or certain characteristics of the tumour can affect survival after the patient has been diagnosed.