Sentences with phrase «toxic effects of the drugs»

Research shows the MCFAs in virgin coconut oil can boost metabolism, promote healthy weight, increase thyroid activity, strengthen the heart, protect the liver from the toxic effect of drugs and alcohol, support the healing of digestive disorders, and are vital for absorbing nutrients like Omega 3s and Vitamins E, A, D, and K.

As a nurse, my observations of the toxic effects of drugs led me to find non-chemical alternative ways of treating my clients.

The common theory is that the cancer cell develops «internal resistance to treatment,» and overrides the toxic effects of the drug.

Kelly Cosgrove from Yale University suggests that the female brain may be more vulnerable to toxic effects of drugs and this study «would suggest extended treatment is necessary — perhaps more so for women».

«This means we can put people on the right medications sooner, spare them the toxic effects of drugs that are ineffective and prevent the development of drug resistant forms of TB that can occur when the wrong medications are given.»

«Right now, if a doctor wants to use multiple drugs to treat a cancer, they often can't do it because the cumulative toxic effects of the drugs would not be tolerated by the patient,» Davis says.

That allows for the mind, body, and soul of the patients to recover from the toxic effects of the drugs that must be taken.

Not exact matches

Companies like U.S. biotech giant Gilead and the U.K.'s GlaxoSmithKline (the majority stakeholder in global HIV partnership ViiV Healthcare) have developed drugs that drastically lower the chance of HIV infection — or which simply lower the number of drugs you have to take to treat it, consequently curbing the risk of toxic side effects while simplifying medical regimens.

Not all chemotherapy drugs are equally effective for all people, and finding the best treatment for an individual is a painful process of trial and error that wastes time and exposes patients to toxic side effects.

They found that their method reduced the amount of the drug that was found in the liver, spleen and kidneys and reduced the drugs» toxic side - effects.

Even as undoubtedly useful a drug as penicillin probably wouldn't be approved today, because of the (albeit low) frequency of toxic side effects.

New research conducted at the Center for Tuberculosis Research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine shows that lower doses of the toxic drug bedaquiline — given together with verapamil, a medication that's used to treat various heart conditions — can lead to the same antibacterial effects as higher toxic doses of bedaquiline.

Sometimes, toxic side effects aren't discovered until fairly late in the drug development process, when substantial amounts of time and money have already been invested in clinical trials.

Exploiting the same pre-clinical model used for their studies, the researchers are testing the efficacy of this kind of drug candidates against cancer stem cells, and the possibility of identifying combination regimens with standard chemotherapies with minimized toxic effects, with the perspective of their possible application for the treatment of human breast cancer.

A team of researchers at the University of Georgia has developed a non-invasive method of delivering drugs directly to cancerous tissue using magnetic forces, a form of treatment that could significantly reduce the toxic side effects of chemotherapy.

«It could be due to toxic side effects of drugs, doctors» prescribing practices, patients» misuse of prescription drugs, reasons related to pharmaceutical industry's marketing strategies or some combination of these factors,» he said.

The Johns Hopkins team used a microshell made of a sugar - based polymer called cyclodextrin to protect the 3BrPA drug molecules from disintegrating early and to guard healthy tissue from the drug's toxic effects, such as weight loss, hypothermia and lethal hypoglycemic shock.

As a result, physicians should be able to up the concentration of the drug without worrying about toxic side effects, says Jeffrey Hrkach, senior vice-president at BIND.

These studies may eventually lead to the development of drugs to treat Alzheimer's that would work by blocking the toxic effect of the cytokines.

Toxic side - effects of a drug used to treat liver cancer could be reduced with a filtration system developed by surgeons in the US.

In the new study, the approach was applied to simulate and compare the potentially toxic liver effects of fifteen different drugs at clinically relevant doses.

A team of researchers has used a computational modeling approach to analyze and compare the toxic effects of fifteen different drugs on the liver, according to a study in PLOS Computational Biology.

«Liver tissue model accurately replicates hepatocyte metabolism, response to toxins: Microfluidic device may help predict toxic effects of new drugs, study liver disease.»

The use of other agents produced similar results across the field of hepatocytes regarding nitrogen metabolism or alcohol degradation, and use of a molecule that induces the expression of drug metabolism enzymes resulted in varied zones of susceptibility to the toxic effects of acetaminophen.

In February a group of researchers from Case Western Reserve University reported online in Science that a cancer drug with relatively benign side effects was able to rapidly clear from the brains of mice toxic amyloid - beta protein fragments that accompany Alzheimer's.

We have known for a while that microRNAs are important in cancer, but their diversity of roles has meant it's been difficult to target them with drugs without causing toxic side - effects.

Thanks to the participation of patients in Sweden, Spain, France and Germany, we can now predict the risk of suffering a serious side - effect of medication against toxic goitre,» says Pär Hallberg, chief physician and associate professor at Clinical Chemistry and Pharmacology, Uppsala University Hospital (Akademiska sjukhuset) who also set up the European Drug Induced Agranulocytosis Consortium (EUDAC).

Restricting the movement of the drug also reduces potentially harmful secondary effects on other parts of the body — for instance, the hair loss that can result from toxic cancer treatments, or the loss of so - called good bacteria due to antibiotic use.

Viral vectors have the main adverse effect of inducing neutralizing antibodies, while several non-viral vectors present toxic effects (e.g. respiratory system).14, 15 In an effort to deliver efficiently the necessary drug concentration to the tumor site and prevent systemic adverse effects, the concept of administering local treatment for lung cancer has been explored.

Early results from a phase one study to establish the recommended dose of the OTX015 / MK -8628 BET inhibitor in hematologic malignancies reported the drug was tolerated; however, thrombocytopenia was a common toxic effect observed (Amorim et al., 2016).

«The way the drug works means that we would need to be sure it was being used against the cold virus, and not similar conditions with different causes, to minimize the chance of toxic side effects,» Tate said.

First, both vitamin A56, 103 and ibandronate84 (a drug that also inhibits Warfarin toxicity) reduce or eliminate the soft tissue calcification and other toxic effects of vitamin D without substantially reducing the vitamin D - induced hypercalcemia.

In the treatment of intestinal protozoan infections... drugs are generally so toxic that they can not be administered for prolonged periods of time, whereas GSE can be administered for weeks or months; prolonged treatment being essential for the cure of chronic protozoan infections... I have had some immunosuppressed patients taking the preparation for over a year with no apparent development of side effects or drug resistance.»

The disease is usually caused by inflammation of the lacrimal glands, but can also be caused by the toxic effect of certain drugs on the lacrimal glands or by lack of nerve innervation to the lacrimal glands.

And people taking these new generations of drugs experience more toxic side effects than plain old penicillin ever brought them.

Many of these «natural» remedies are drugs themselves, drugs in which no studies have been performed to see if they work and to make sure there are no toxic effects.

There are a whole host of parasite prevention drugs, unfortunately they are all full of toxic chemicals which can cause nasty side effects and even long term health problems.

Higher dose of drugs may increase the toxic side effects to a greater extent than the increase in beneficial effects.

Toxic effects of the different therapeutic protocols have been reported, which should be monitored with a gradual increase in dosage of different anti parasitic drugs during therapy.

Today, newer drugs are available that do not have these toxic side effects, and as a result, we are able to successfully treat more than 95 percent of canine heartworm infections.

Potential new agents are also being investigated that it is hoped will overcome limitations of the current options, which include a narrow antiviral spectrum, ineffectiveness against latent virus infections, development of drug - resistance and toxic side effects.

According to the Zoloft drug insert, these defects were probably due to either a direct toxic effect of the medication or a drug withdrawal syndrome.