Sentences with phrase «using them to treat»

The pharmaceutical giant just signed an exclusive license to investigate whether Teijin Pharma's anti-tau antibody can be used to treat the disease.

In 2002, ReCell gained international attention after Dr. Wood used it to treat severely burned victims of the 2002 terrorist attack in Bali, Indonesia.

Since the 1990s, however, the most common way for Brazilian women to induce an abortion is by taking under - the - counter medications, most commonly misoprostol, an anti-inflammatory used to treat ulcers.

The fast - food chain's potential changes in hormones used to treat its cows might be problematic with its brand messaging.

By 1993, tests to see if Viagra could be used to treat erectile dysfunction began.

In September, the pair sent a letter to Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli after he jacked up the price of Daraprim, a drug used to treat malaria and parasitic infections in patients with weakened immune systems, from $ 13.50 to $ 750 per pill.

«The holy grail is to target a piece of the virus by antibody or t cell,» Tom Evans, the CEO of a company called Vaccitech that is working on a universal vaccine they hope can be used to treat all strains of influenza A, told National Geographic.

It's not a blockbuster, but Sirturo is saving lives: the drug, which was added to the World Health Organization's Essential Medicines List in 2015, has been registered in over 40 countries and used to treat more than 10,000 patients.

Pathogens — bacteria, viruses, and fungi — can develop resistance to the drugs used to treat them when people take them incorrectly or stop taking them too soon, for instance.

Ellie Sawits, CEO of Frutels, a New York City — based maker of chocolate candies used to treat acne, says ads on Facebook are an affordable alternative to the high pay - per - click rates for acne - related keywords on Google's AdWords.

If you haven't followed this story, you'll remember Shkreli from his fame two years ago, when his biotech firm, Turing Pharmaceuticals, acquired the patent to a drug used to treat malaria, cancer and aids, and jacked up the retail price by more than 5,000 percent.

Rather, CBD is used to treat all sorts of ailments — from arthritis to anxiety and seizures.

The invasive implants used to treat Parkinson's and epilepsy pose risks that are only deemed necessary when the conditions are too debilitating, and, typically, when other options have been exhausted.

Analysts at the investment bank said the Dow member's sales could boom because of Keytruda, a blockbuster drug used to treat lung cancer.

The first move sets Takeda up to work on development of FIN - 524, a preclinical therapy that contains cultured bacteria strains and which could theoretically be used to treat gut diseases.

Medicine can help — specifically «serotonin reuptake inhibitors» (SRIs and SSRIs) like Zoloft, which are also used to treat depression and anxiety.

The U.S. drugmaker Novum Pharma has raised the price of two of its skin care treatments that are commonly used to treat conditions such as eczema and acne to nearly $ 10,000, according to figures by the Financial Times.

Here we had a pharmaceutical product used to treat impotency (I'm old school with the terminology) on the one hand, and computer peripheral devices (e.g. printers) on the other.

Jesuit missionaries in South America used quinine to treat malaria as early as 1600, but legend has it that they heard that it could be used to treat the illness from the native Andean population.

To reduce spinal cord inflammation, they may also administer a powerful steroid called methylprednisolone — also used to treat arthritis pain — although side effects, including an increased risk of infection, make it inappropriate for many SCI patients.

Vicodin is used to treat pain using the narcotic hydrocodone and acetaminophin (which is also found in Tylenol), is the most popular drug in the US.

That was for mipomersen, a medicine used to treat familial hypercholesterolemia, a hereditary condition that causes massive increases in LDL cholesterol.

It's used to treat hypothyroidism, a common condition that occurs when a person can't make enough of these thyroid hormones that regulate our bodies.

His company acquired the patent to a drug used to treat malaria, cancer, and AIDS, and increased its price from $ 13.50 to $ 750 a tablet — 5,455 percent.

Best - known by its branded name Xanax, alprazolam is a drug that's approved used to treat anxiety and panic disorders, which are very common conditions.

It's often used to treat the nerve pain associated with shingles.

Gabapentin is used to treat seizures and neuropathic pain.

The agency's concerns stem from an inspection in September of a facility located at Nashik in the western Indian state of Maharashtra that produces antiretroviral therapies (ARVs) used to treat HIV.

That means patients who were paying EpiPen's full $ 608 list price (for a package of two) can now get the epinephrine injection device, which is used to treat a potentially fatal allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis, for about half as much.

Lisinopril is type of drug called an ACE inhibitor that's used to treat heart conditions including hypertension and congestive heart failure.

Police and medical officials, though, said that exhaustion from overwork was probably to blame, while a United Nations labor agency pointed to the possibility that chemicals used to treat fabrics could be responsible.

And the parasite that causes malaria is gaining resistance to some of the best drugs used to treat the disease, including artemisinin.

Startup Turing Pharmaceuticals acquired Daraprim, a drug used to treat toxoplasmosis, in August.

Called Gravity, the blanket's selling point was that, by generating «the feeling of being held or hugged,» it could be used to treat everything from insomnia to anxiety.

Bronchial thermoplasty could one day be used to treat severe asthma.

Or in an emergency, you can use it to treat water by using 16 drops of regular household liquid bleach per gallon of water.

McNerney saw potential in 3M's health care business, including a skin cream used to treat precancerous lesions and genital warts.

Nitropress is used to treat hypertensive crisis — when a patient's blood pressure dramatically and dangerously rises.

SPL is the world's largest independent provider of heparin, an anticoagulant, and is a leader in the production of pancreatin, used to treat Cystic Fibrosis and a variety of digestive disorders.

If not Mylan's Bresch, it's Turing Pharmaceuticals» Martin Shkreli, who jacked up the price of Daraprim — used to treat life - threatening infections — from $ 13.50 to $ 750 a pill.

Before Shkreli started Turing, Retrophin raised the price of Thiola, used to treat a rare condition causing debilitating recurrences of kidney stones, from $ 1.50 a pill to $ 30.

In fact, the top prescription pill taken in the U.S. from April 2013 to March 2014 was a synthetic thyroid hormone called levothyroxine, which is used to treat hypothyroidism, according to a recent report from IMS Health, a leading health care information, services and technology company.

The drug, used to treat a painful condition that causes repeated kidney stones, went from $ 1.50 a pill to more than $ 30, Benjamin Davies, a Pittsburgh - based surgeon, wrote last year in TheStreet.com.

Sadly, most of those payments are just used to treat oneself and are gone immediately without any positive impact -LSB-...]

Cycloserine, a drug used to treat dangerous multidrug - resistant tuberculosis, was just increased in price to $ 10,800 for 30 pills from $ 500 after its acquisition by Rodelis Therapeutics.

After 10 years of working on a surgically implanted pacemaker for the brain (the Neuropace, which is now used to treat epilepsy), they turned their attention to less invasive technology.

The experimental device has been used to treat patients with Ebola, Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and the HIV.

Instead of ignoring reporters» questions about the price increase of the drug, which is used to treat people with toxoplasmosis, Shkreli embraced the publicity, speaking with The New York Times and other media outlets, and arguing that the price of $ 750 per pill was necessary and good business.

Shkreli shot to national notoriety in 2015 by ordering a 5000 % price hike on a medication used to treat a parasitic ailment that typically afflicts those with HIV and others with weakened immune systems.

Novartis's Sandoz unit said its copy of Roche blockbuster Rituxan — used to treat blood...