Sentences with phrase «treatments against drug»

Given the emergence of artemisinin resistance, these findings could potentially lead to the design of new treatments against drug - resistant parasites.

Medical researchers have developed a new treatment against drug - resistant strains of the Plasmodium falciparum parasite that causes malaria.

Not exact matches

Sessions, during the same drug caucus, went after President Obama for not taking a stand against legalization: «One of our President's great failures, it is obvious to me, is his lax treatment and comments around marijuana,» said Sessions.

Novartis's global head of drug development and chief medical officer, Vas Narasimhan, has a piece up on Fortune exploring the strides that have been made in the fight against malaria, including the development of an experimental Novartis treatment called KAF156.

I was diagnosed with RA and my RA Dr. believes in a very agressive drug treatment plan, which I am against.

In a 1992 article in The North American Review entitled «The Corruption of Nobility: The Rise & Fall of Thoroughbred Racing in America,» Ferraro penned a stinging rebuke against drug abuse on the backstretch, saying, «In general, treatments designed to repair a horse's injuries and to alleviate its suffering are now often used to get the animal out onto the track to compete — to force the animal, like some punch - drunk fighter, to make just one more round.

Thousands of deaths could be averted through a combined prevention and treatment strategy — interventions such as improved mother and child nutrition, optimal breastfeeding practices; Oral Rehydration Therapy [ORT]; new low - osmolarity formulations of ORS; incorporating rotavirus vaccines; zinc supplementation during diarrhoea episodes; immunizing all children against measles; appropriate drug therapy; increased access to safe clean water and sanitation facilities and improved personal and domestic hygiene, including keeping food and water clean and washing hands before touching food.

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Local community parents, advocates, and leaders spoke out against any further county legislature delays in approving the resolution for funding, voicing their support for the opening of the drug treatment facility.

He promised a drive against drugs, including treatment in prison but also greater efforts to control supply.

According to the report's author, Professor Kate Shannon, factors such as being forced to service clients in cars or public places, inability to access drug treatment and a prior assault by police all correlated with violence against female sex workers.

The home video of the flying inflatable castle is now a big hit on local news shows across America, as anchors warn of Bounce House Terror everywhere... Is anyone actually against the Daytop Village plan to bring drug treatment into William Floyd High in Mastic Beach?

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H. contortus has become resistant to all major treatments against parasitic worms, so its genome is a good model to understand how drug resistance develops in this complex group of closely related parasites and will also reveal further potential drug and vaccine targets.

«Revealing new drug targets against H. contortus could provide much - needed new treatment opportunities against parasitic worms in both animals and humans.

Formulating treatments containing three drugs against HIV in one single tablet has helped turn HIV into a manageable condition

Before treatment, their infections resisted many TB drugs, so the approach offers hope that such immune tricks could replace the antibiotics that are losing their power against bacteria.

According to the paper's first author, Si Ming Man, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in St. Jude Immunology, the findings could lead to new protective treatments against tularemia, including drugs that can enhance the ability of IRF1, GBP or AIM2 to cure infections more quickly and effectively.

WHO said on 6 August that it will convene an expert meeting next week to discuss the ethics of using untested treatments against the outbreak, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) removed a barrier to the use of another experimental medicine, TKM - Ebola, made by Tekmira of Burnaby, Canada.

Drugs That Ramp Up the Immune System against Tumor Cells are Revolutionizing Cancer Treatment

What's more, the studies suggest how our gut microbes make the immune system turn against nerve cells — a finding that could lead to treatments, like drugs based on microbial byproducts, that might improve the course of the disease.

• PUBLIC HEALTH Gonorrhea has been developing defenses against drug treatment for decades, which has caused concern that it might become untreatable.

Bioengineers from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have shown for the first time that lithium chloride, a common drug used to treat mental health disorders, could offer an effective treatment against osteoarthritis by disrupting the length of the cells» antennae called primary cilia.

The World Health Organization (WHO) released a plan today to deal with a threat that could undermine the recent success in malaria control: the emerging resistance against artemisinin drugs, which are the cornerstone of malaria treatment worldwide.

Researchers at the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital and Houston Methodist have developed an alternative treatment in which virus - specific cells protect patients against severe, drug - resistant viral infections.

Phase I / II clinical trial results reported at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2015 show promising results for investigational drug brigatinib against ALK + non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), with 58 of 78 ALK + patients responding to treatment, including 50 of 70 patients who had progressed after previous treatment with crizotinib, the first licensed ALK inhibitor.

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.

Using virtual tissue technology, researchers at Indiana University have identified a potential new drug target in the fight against polycystic kidney disease, an illness with no effective FDA - approved treatment that affects 200,000 people per year in the United States.

This small molecule is in clinical trials against cancer and has high specificity and good pharmacological properties, which could warrant its further development as antiviral drug for treatment of pH1N1 virus infection,» Dr. Oxana Denisova says.

The good news is that newer drugs active against resistant viral strains and newer approaches to treatment are on the way.

In their report that has received advance online publication in Nature Nanotechnology, a research team based at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) describes how a nanomedicine that combines photodynamic therapy — the use of light to trigger a chemical reaction — with a molecular therapy drug targeted against common treatment resistance pathways reduced a thousand-fold the dosage of the molecular therapy drug required to suppress tumor progression and metastatic outgrowth in an animal model.

«Nanoparticles combine photodynamic and molecular therapies against pancreatic cancer: Novel drug - delivery system cuts off common treatment escape pathways in animal models.»

A subsidy program intended to drive down the cost of lifesaving malaria drugs called artemisinin - based combination therapies — now considered the most effective treatment against the parasitic disease — was unveiled today in Norway.

A system based on tailored DNA - devices could help to avoid unnecessary drug treatments, since programmed DNA - nanorobots could detect various agents from the blood stream, and immediately start the battle against disease.

There are currently no vaccines or drugs approved for human use and no post-exposure treatment that has completely protected nonhuman primates against MARV - Angola, the most deadly Marburg viral strain, with a mortality rate of up to 90 percent.

There's a new blockbuster drug on the market, and your doctor lets you know about a new clinical trial you can join that is testing the new treatment against an old tried - and - true one.

Guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued in 1997 and reaffirmed in 2006 warn of its potential dangers and lack of documented effectiveness in children with coughs and colds, and the American College of Chest Physicians 2006 guideline on treatment of pediatric cough also advises against the drug.

Artemisinins are a family of drugs that currently form the frontline treatment against Plasmodium falciparum malaria.

«We wanted to identify new genes that are worthy of creating drugs against in cancer treatment,» says Beronja.

Shkreli's defiant decision to raise the price of Daraprim, a drug that dates to the 1950s and is the standard treatment for a life - threatening parasitic infection, from $ 13.50 to $ 750 per tablet overnight, helped spark more than a year of public outrage and political fulminating against high drug prices.

Although there remains no cure for Alzheimer's, researchers hope that testing potential drugs or therapies prior to mental decline will prove to be more successful than previous attempts at finding the most effective treatment in the battle against the debilitating disease.

The treatment acts by protecting the brain against stress hormones — separate gene - based research also offers the hope of a fast - acting drug

«New drug target can break down cancer's barrier against treatment.»

It can be a serious, life - altering and even fatal disease and currently, there is no cure or drug treatment against West Nile virus, which has been widely spread across the U.S., Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean.

«Identifying a cancer driver is crucial for cancer treatment because it allows the use of targeted therapies, which have less side - effects than conventional chemotherapy drugs, against a particular protein,» said Kurokawa.

While single - agent treatment with either drug had limited effects against mesothelioma, treatment with both drugs significantly reduced tumor size and prolonged the animals» survival.

«Repurposed drug found to be effective against Zika virus: Researchers say findings support further investigation as potential treatment for Zika - infected adults.»

Researchers used the mice to show that pemetrexed and gemcitabine worked against human group 3 tumors and that the drugs could be used in combination with existing chemotherapy agents to boost treatment effectiveness without undue risk.

To date, there is no drug for treatment or vaccines to protect against dengue fever.

The findings suggest that drugs targeting this molecule could serve as a new treatment strategy to protect against liver fibrosis.