Sentences with phrase «useful drugs»

How useful the drug may be depends upon how well it actually lowers skin cancer risk and whether it is easy for people to use, she says.

We still may be some years away from an effective Alzheimer's disease treatment, but all is certainly not lost with many dedicated researchers still working hard to find potentially useful drug targets.

Diamond is also quick to point out that while the current study shows that COXEN could have been used to predict the most useful drug in many of these cases of advanced ovarian cancer, the actual use of the model will be possible only after validation with a prospective clinical trial.

«A major challenge in tackling the problem of antibiotic resistance is to discover new drugs — our study shows that potentially useful drug candidates can be «discovered» from amongst the antibiotics we already know about.»

The microbes that live in our gut could prove to be a fertile source for new antibiotics and other useful drugs

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

«The ability to identify useful drug delivery nanoparticles using this miniaturized system holds great potential for accelerating our discovery process,» Anderson says.

This lecture illustrates the early stages in the planning and discovery of propranolol, an adrenaline beta - adrenergic receptor antagonist, and cimetidine, a histamine H2 - receptor antagonist — the first examples of clinically useful drugs from each of these classes.

Researchers have long suspected that they might be able to make useful drugs by persuading the bacteria to synthesise slight variations on the same chemical theme.

«By re-engineering the molecules, we are able to exploit that interaction and open the way for clinical translation, turning these molecules into useful drugs.»

«Sometimes a very useful drug can have unforeseen effects, and the more we can learn about such things, the better care we can provide,» Brass said.

I actually do agree that not taking the child in for a proper diagnosis is highly problematic, and I credit the parents with the belief that had they done so, they would have given the child useful drugs.

Could the proteins that neighbour cancer - related proteins at the centre of cellular signalling networks, not directly involved in carcinogenesis themselves, be useful drug targets themselves?

No one knows how useful the drug would be in a pandemic or whether it would produce serious side effects in some people.

Antidotes and Other Useful Drugs.

But the BBB also blocks the passage of many potentially useful drugs to the brain and it has long stymied scientists who want to learn more about this vital tissue because of the lack of realistic non-human lab models.

The distinction is crucial for understanding how atherosclerosis develops as well as determining whether CRP is a useful drug target — and whether lowering it can save lives.

This is a welcome surprise, because it suggests a well - understood brain process might be a useful drug target for future HD research.

They expect that this will result in useful drugs to treat human blinding diseases, including dry age - related macular degeneration (AMD).

In a scientific review article published this year in the journal of Vascular Health and Risk Management the authors conclude: «Sibutramine, in conjunction with lifestyle measures, is a useful drug for reducing body weight and improving

: «Sibutramine, in conjunction with lifestyle measures, is a useful drug for reducing body weight and improving

«The research showed that while amlodipine is a useful drug, it does not activate RAAS and therefore should be accompanied by the use of some drug which blunts RAAS such as an ACE - I,» Atkins says.

It is a useful drug in ferrets when prednisone alone will no longer keep the pet's blood sugar level high enough.

They have called for protection of biodiversity for the useful drugs it may yield, and point to the decline in GDP that ozone depletion and climate change may cause.

Even in the «positive» studies, when one reads the «fine print», one discovers that an antidepressant only has to be 10 % more effective than a placebo to be deemed a useful drug.