Sentences with phrase «toxic side effects of drugs»

«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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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).

«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.

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.»

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

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.

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.