Sentences with phrase «using either of these drugs for»

The FDA does not recommend the use of drugs for treating colds in children under 2 years of age since the cold is self - limiting and will resolve within one to two weeks.

The Libertarian Party's platform reads «we favor the repeal of all laws creating «crimes» without victims, such as the use of drugs for medicinal or recreational purposes.»

The Compassionate Care Act, sponsored by Senator Diane Savino and Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, would legalize the growth and sale of medical marijuana, making New York the 23rd state to legalize some use of the drug for medical purposes.

The state Gaming Commission is putting forth a series of sweeping rules regarding the use of drugs for Thoroughbreds following their report on a series of allegations that PETA made following an investigation they conducted during the 2013 racing season at the Saratoga Race Course.

The study, based on insurance claims data from across the United States, was conducted in response to reports of Avastin (bevacizumab)- related endophthalmitis, which led the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently to propose significant restrictions on use of the drug for eye conditions.

- Particular attention needs to be paid to the use of drugs for AMS, as they could conceal the usual symptoms of AMS and, as a result, it is possible to go on climbing up until the moment when the body can not become acclimatised to the altitude.

Exposure to amphetamines was established by 2 questions: 1 on the use of drugs for losing weight and a 2nd question on whether people often made use of Dexedrine or Benzedrine.

Study after study has shown that exercise is just as effective (or in some cases, MORE effective) than the use of drugs for preventing heart disease and stroke.

Its drug candidates are designed to improve the pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, half - life, bioavailability, metabolism or distribution of drugs and improve the overall benefits and use of a drug for the patient.

Be sure to read these articles before you consider using either of these drugs for your dog.

The term «off label» describes the use of a drug for conditions other than what it was approved for.

Although Actos has been available to diabetes users in the US for a number of years, it was just last year that the Food and Drug Administration put out a Drug Safety Communication giving notification that the medication's label had been revised to include a warning that use of the drug for over a year dramatically increases the chances that the patient might develop bladder cancer.

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«Our drug has been used in hospitals for many, many years and established an enormous number of fans,» she said.

CASIS's mission is to encourage «use of this unparalleled platform for innovation» — and Merck is taking this to heart by experimenting with drug development in the realm of microgravity.

From 2011, Bitcoin was best known for its association with the dark web bazaar called Silk Road, where unscrupulous folks used it to buy or sell drugs and other contraband under the guise of pseudonyms — the only basic protection Bitcoin afforded.

or, more radically, for posting their genetic data to an anonymized, shared research database that might be used to identify those at risk for certain diseases or to identify those who respond better to specific classes of drugs, from beta blockers to cancer medicines.

And much of the reason its creators felt confident enough to invest all that time, money, and effort — given the small number of patients who might eventually use the medicine — can be traced to the Orphan Drug Act, a 1983 federal law that gave those who develop meds for uncommon diseases longer periods of marketing exclusivity and other financial incentives.

For years QHR Technologies (recently acquired by Loblaw Cos.» Shoppers Drug Mart) and Telus Health (a division of the telecom) fought tooth and nail to get health authorities to digitize patients» medical records using their respective systems.

While the drug remains illegal in the eyes of the federal government, 29 states have passed legislation that allows for medical marijuana use and nine states have legalized recreational weed.

But the initiative comes with another huge financial prize for firms that successfully win FDA approval for these niche therapies: a priority review voucher that can be used to slash the regulatory period for a different experimental specialty treatment being developed by a drug maker or, more often, sold for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to another pharma company.

These risks and uncertainties include, among others: the unfavorable outcome of litigation, including so - called «Paragraph IV» litigation and other patent litigation, related to any of our products or products using our proprietary technologies, which may lead to competition from generic drug manufacturers; data from clinical trials may be interpreted by the FDA in different ways than we interpret it; the FDA may not agree with our regulatory approval strategies or components of our filings for our products, including our clinical trial designs, conduct and methodologies and, for ALKS 5461, evidence of efficacy and adequacy of bridging to buprenorphine; clinical development activities may not be completed on time or at all; the results of our clinical development activities may not be positive, or predictive of real - world results or of results in subsequent clinical trials; regulatory submissions may not occur or be submitted in a timely manner; the company and its licensees may not be able to continue to successfully commercialize their products; there may be a reduction in payment rate or reimbursement for the company's products or an increase in the company's financial obligations to governmental payers; the FDA or regulatory authorities outside the U.S. may make adverse decisions regarding the company's products; the company's products may prove difficult to manufacture, be precluded from commercialization by the proprietary rights of third parties, or have unintended side effects, adverse reactions or incidents of misuse; and those risks and uncertainties described under the heading «Risk Factors» in the company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10 - K and in subsequent filings made by the company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission («SEC»), which are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.

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).

Rather than using the samples to screen for illegal drug use or preexisting medical conditions, TAT hopes to use its recently developed human - cloning technology to address a critical lack of available talent.

The Canadian drugmaker has faced intense political and investor scrutiny in the past year for its steep drug price increases and unorthodox use of a specialty pharmacy.

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.

Meanwhile, it orchestrated deals with Genentech and Pfizer, giving them access to parts of its DNA database in exchange for upfront payments and a cut of revenue from new drugs developed using it.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating patient deaths following an obesity - fighting procedure which involves the use of balloons that fill up inside the stomach and remain for about six months.

MENLO PARK, Calif., April 24 - Facebook Inc on Tuesday released a rule book for the types of posts it allows on its social network, giving far more detail than ever before on what is permitted on subjects ranging from drug use and sex work to bullying, hate speech and inciting violence.

Friedman was of the opinion that all drugs should be legal, and he believed that the fact that they were illegal was the largest reason for the problems surrounding drug use.

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.

Resistance is also fueled by the massive and often inappropriate use of antibiotics in agriculture; for decades these precious drugs have been used to promote growth and fend off costly infections that can result from the cramped conditions of industrial - scale food animal production.

Facebook Inc on Tuesday released a rule book for the types of posts it allows on its social network, giving far more detail than ever before on what is permitted on subjects ranging from drug use and sex work to bullying, hate speech and inciting violence.

The group called for efforts to promote the prudent use of drugs and research to develop new antibiotics and new infection fighting tools.

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.»

«The tools they gain and the opportunities they earn permanently break the cycles of drug - use, incarceration, and poverty for them and their families, for life,» O'Donnell said in a statement to Business Insider, pointing us to some research outlined on The Doe Fund's website:

CVS and Aetna argue that their deal will lower healthcare costs for employees of their large corporate customers, giving the company greater clout to negotiate down drug prices and better manage the use of those medicines.

However, it's far simpler to do consistent, smaller price hikes on drugs used by a far greater number of people in order to make up for revenue gaps.

Tree — who said the policy change restored a price support for growers by reintroducing a «federal risk premium» — told Business Insider that while consumers in states were marijuana was legal were probably used to a high - quality and tested product, he suspected cracking down on legal marijuana production and sales would incentivize trafficking of lower - quality marijuana to states where the drug is still illegal.

The reason there's no generic Viagra yet is because Pfizer, the company that makes it, holds two patents for the drug: the first for Viagra's composition — which expired in 2012 — and the second for what's called a «method of treatment,» meaning how the drug is used.

Intarcia has completed several late - stage clinical trials in which it uses the pump to deliver a glucose - controlling drug continuously for months — an idea, that if successful (and approved by the FDA) could significantly help patients with type 2 diabetes, fewer than half of whom maintain the recommended glycemic levels.

Instead, following Hopper's death in 2010, it's best known for the tales of drug use and partying that went on throughout the creation of it.

«These high complex - care cost members, the very, very sick, or the ones that are using expensive drugs, tend to be the highest profit for the industry,» said Pramod John, CEO of Vivio Health, a specialty pharmacy management firm.

The FDA and Flatiron Health have been collaborating to explore how the FDA might be able to use real - world data (that clinical information Flatiron collects) to inform how drugs the agency approves are used outside of the clinical trials that are the basis for their approval.

The biotech plans to shed 20 % of its nearly 600 employees in order to secure yearly cost - savings of about $ 21 million — money which can then be used to double down on late - stage clinical trials for its experimental Parkinson's drug.

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.

Langer, an MIT Institute Professor with some 750 patents issued or pending worldwide, was one of the first people to apply chemical engineering methods to medical applications, pioneering the use of specially designed polymers for targeted drug delivery and tissue regeneration.

It's also unclear that the increased marijuana use by pregnant women represents drug abuse; for instance, nausea and anxiety (both common among pregnancy) are among the most common symptoms of medical marijuana users, which may in part explain the increase in usage.

CVS, for example, began limiting prescriptions to seven days and prioritizing lower - dose drugs, and a number of legal complaints have been leveled against opioid manufacturers, who have been accused of using misleading marketing tactics that may have caused more patients to get hooked on potentially addicting painkillers.

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.

Ross Ulbricht, 30, was convicted on all seven counts he faced by a federal jury in Manhattan, following a closely - watched trial that spilled out of U.S. investigations into the use of the digital currency bitcoin for drug trafficking and other crimes.