Sentences with phrase «use of the drug as»

Golding says his research on anabolic steroids indicates that they have no effect at all on building lean muscle mass and explains the continued use of the drug as a result of peer - group pressure.

Follow - up studies involving people have investigated the use of this drug as a new treatment option for those with sleep apnea.

In general, limit your use of these drugs as much as possible: «Most of the time, for acute injuries, you don't need it for more than a few days,» says Dr. Cidambi.

Coupled with an economy based on profit and on the games finance plays in order to profit from money itself, without a clear orientation to the production of goods, this leads to social exclusion and the new forms of slavery such as forced labour, prostitution, organ trafficking, and the use of drugs as a method of corruption.

It is important to note, however, that the use of any drug as a restraint or to make the lives of nursing home staff easier may be nursing home abuse or negligence, absent a valid medical reason for prescribing and administering the medication.

Not exact matches

Marino's draft stock had fallen after a disappointing senior season at Pitt, as well as rumors of recreational drug use, rumors which even led Marino's hometown team the Pittsburgh Steelers to pass on selecting him.

The federal government still classifies marijuana as an illegal drug, even as a growing number of states are legalizing its use.

Using the drug as an anti-aging treatment makes sense, since it helps the body be more sensitive to insulin, which in turn lowers the amount of blood sugar in the body and helps things run more smoothly.

But before his arrest, he said he'd use KaloBios as a vehicle to nab another niche drug, this time for treatment of the parasitic infection Chagas disease, and dramatically increase its price to the $ 60,000 to $ 100,000 range after helping it win FDA approval (the drug is approved in other countries and is provided to patients in the U.S. on a special and selective basis).

Martin Shkreli, unaffectionately known as the «pharma bro» — and infamous for his decision to hike the list price of Daraprim, a drug used by HIV / AIDS and cancer patients to combat infections, by more than 5,000 % in 2015 under his former company Turing Pharmaceuticals — was convicted on three criminal securities fraud and conspiracy charges by a Brooklyn jury on Friday.

As we wait for more evidence to emerge with the use of this «living drug,» let's hope the CMS announcement heralds a new era in finding ways to link reimbursement to patient outcomes.

The company is selling a thing (the kit) by saying it can provide «health reports on 254 diseases and conditions,» including categories such as «carrier status,» «health risks,» and «drug response,» and specifically as a «first step in prevention» that enables users to «take steps toward mitigating serious diseases» such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and breast cancer...» Most of the uses «listed on your website, a list that has grown over time,» the FDA writes, «are medical device uses [for the] Personal Genome Service.»

And then he watched in awe and horror as students began posting intimate and often offensive remarks about their peers — including sexual histories, accusations of drug use, and threats of violence.

Phase I funding — which allows up to $ 250,000 for an academic idea, such as decoding the genetic sequence of a protein or studying targeted drug delivery by using magnetic nanoparticles — is available from federal funding and foundations.

But Schoellhammer, along with other researchers coming out of MIT hope to use it differently, as a way to deliver drugs to a specific spot.

The US is suffering from a deadly opioid epidemic, especially in rural areas, thanks to the widespread use of drugs like OxyContin as painkillers.

That data is combined with information gathered from the participant, such as drug preferences, history of use, and trigger words.

Since 1996 state spending on the drug had jumped from $ 11,000 to $ 2 million in 2002 as Purdue and its partners used office meetings, lunches and dinners to convince doctors of the wonders of the drug.

Gorsuch's commitments to interpreting the law as «the words on the paper say» and not over-criminalizing innocent conduct were on full display in a 2015 decision in which he used «plain old grade school grammar» to determine the legal penalties imposed on defendants accused of using a firearm «during and in relation to any crime of violence of drug trafficking crime.»

For example, CRAC channels in T cells have been clinically validated as important drug targets through human mutations and the use of calcineurin inhibitors that act downstream from CRAC channels.

On November 8, the US House of Representatives held a hearing on the effectiveness of a 1999 law known as the Kingpin Act, which is used to sanction individuals suspected of involvement in the drug trade.

The closure of Silk Road in October, the online marketplace that allegedly allowed more than a billion dollars of illegal drugs and illicit services to be bought using the virtual currency, is cited as another major driver.

Such concern has sparked the launch of the Obama administration's five - year plan to combat antibiotic resistance, as well as the Food and Drug Administration's new guidelines aiming to restrict antibiotic use in farm animal products, like meat and poultry, that make it to our dinner plates.

Before playing Barney Stinson on «How I Met You Mother,» Harris was mainly known for his role as the namesake child doctor on «Doogie Howser, MD.» But the raunchy, stripper - loving, drug - using alter ego he plays on «Harold & Kumar» banished all thoughts of Doogie.

So, Loncar took matters into his own hands and created a new type of biotech index that focuses exclusively on the red - hot field of cancer immunotherapy drugs (treatments which use the body's immune system as a conduit to fight cancer).

Nearly a year after it clashed with the Food and Drug Administration over labeling on its dried fruit and nut bars, KIND has received approval to use the word «healthy» as part of its marketing.

From supporting projects that I'm passionate about, such as being an advocate for gay rights, to drug policy reform, to using my voice and that of the Virgin Group to shine a spotlight on issues that I believe are unacceptable, such as poaching and the death penalty.

Even as his counterparts like Atlanta rapper Killer Mike — who has been very vocal about America's racist war on drugs and his own political beliefs — used their celebrity for fundraising, meetings with politicians, and self - penned articles; the rapper usually left politics to the side as he expanded his business and rose to the top of the corporate ladder.

Though marijuana is growing ever more popular throughout the U.S. as several states have legalized medicinal and recreational use of the drug, the tight restrictions on growing and selling cannabis products has been a barrier for entrepreneurs looking to enter the market.

The NEJM letter also analyzed the use of two drugs that remained stable in price over that time period, as a control group — nitroglycerin and dobutamine.

That's why Jamie Dimon, the chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., sees bitcoin as a «fraud» that's destined to come crashing down, as its use in ransomware schemes, drug and arms trafficking ultimately persuades authorities to find a way to put a stop to it.

These seemingly harmless customer services are being used as currency in an unlikely and dangerous economy that is supporting the drug habits of people who suffer from opioid addiction.

WOONSOCKET, R.I. (AP)-- CVS Health Corp. reported better - than - expected third - quarter earnings Tuesday as increased use of specialty drugs helped offset missing sales of tobacco products, which the company stopped selling this fall.

Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.

Bain and Cinven, who earlier this year took control of Germany's Stada, are hoping to use the Merck unit as a buy - and - build platform for Stada, which makes generic drugs and consumer care products and had annual revenues of more than 2 billion euros in 2016, the sources said.

Among other things, it has been criticized as a scam — based on economic assumptions that are described as «laughable» — and has come under fire from the U.S. Senate for the ease with which drug dealers and other subversive elements can make use of it.

Regulatory authorities in the U.S. and Europe believe that real - world data can make the drug - development process more efficient and cost - effective, as well as help better inform patients and physicians about the uses of new products.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

«A blanket ban on the use of cryptocurrencies is not a very feasible solution as drug smuggling is a big problem, and in most cases, these transactions have nothing to do with use of cryptocurrencies.»

One of the biggest challenges facing financial institutions is the need to prevent their systems being used to transfer funds for criminal activity such as the drugs trade or terrorism.

One of the few negatives on an otherwise fairly positive day of trading was the 5 % decline of Reckitt Benckiser, producers of a drug used to help get drug users off of Heroin called Suboxone, which acts as a replacement for the Class A. Reckitt's patent for Suboxone is due to expire in the relatively near future, so they have been trying to push doctors and other pharmaceutical vendors towards their film version of the drug, which is still under patent and will be for quite some time.

Two analogies are often used to describe the actions of the Federal Reserve in the United States as well as other central banks around the world: the punch bowl, and the drug addict.

The startup describes itself as a deep data platform for the study of exosomes, which are small lipid vesicles — air - or fluid - filled cavities — that are excreted from cells and which deliver information that Mantra plans to use to come up with new drug therapies.

The problem is that many people are already using this type of currency for illegal transactions such as buying drugs, murder for hire and other criminal activities.

Hemp belongs to the cannabaceae plant family that contains over 270 species and 11 genera and is often confused with cannabis plants that are uses as a source of the drug, marijuana; however, hemp does not have any psychoactive or drug properties and is often identified as an agricultural crop.

One of the clearest answers seems to be that it's gotten harder to use bitcoin for some of its less savory uses, such as dodging taxes and buying drugs.

@Really - O «Yes, society should allow people to do whatever they want as long as they do not cause others to suffer AND no unprovoked force is involved (please not the AND... this is not to be confused with OR)» @Chad «so, then you are in favor of: — legalizing all forms of drugs (as long as they are not used when operating a vehicle, same as drinking and driving).

Utah also leads the nation in the use of narcotic painkillers such as codeine and morphine - based drugs, the study found.

As a gay Christian, however, I was concerned by the way Williamson freighted in the idea of homosexuality as a choice» hence subject to the same kind of moral decision - making as drug use or stealinAs a gay Christian, however, I was concerned by the way Williamson freighted in the idea of homosexuality as a choice» hence subject to the same kind of moral decision - making as drug use or stealinas a choice» hence subject to the same kind of moral decision - making as drug use or stealinas drug use or stealing.

-- legalizing all forms of drugs (as long as they are not used when operating a vehicle, same as drinking and driving).