Already available drugs may stave off and even reverse debilitating symptoms
Not exact matches
Even though getting a
drug to market typically takes ten years, Linear, in its eight years of operation, has
already been involved in assisting two oncology
drugs to be
available for cancer patients.
After all, patients and doctors who choose Valeant's
drugs when an identical generic version is
available are
already volunteering to pay extra for the brand name.
The alarmist prediction that cheap
available drugs could lead to an addiction rate of 75 percent of regular users simply ignores the fact that 35 to 40 million Americans are
already using some
drugs and that only 3 percent become addicts.
However, there is some research
available on babies whose mothers were
already taking
drugs while breastfeeding.
Anti-doping authorities say there's a chance some version of the blood - boosting
drug could
already be
available on the black market.
We
already do lots and lots of research on
drugs that are not
available to the public, but somehow we need to legalize marihuana to do that same research on it?
In addition to a steady supply of free condoms — which are
already available to students — Christine Quinn has pushed for the program, one of the first of its kind in the nation, stating that since kids are having unprotected sex and getting pregnant, they should also have access to the abortion
drug.
Poughkeepsie, NY... In conjunction with National Prescription
Drug Take - Back Day on Saturday, April 27th, the Dutchess County STOP - DWI Program has announced new prescription medication disposal drop boxes are now
available at four locations throughout the county in addition to the one
already established at the New York State Police Troop K Headquarters in Salt Point.
The National Institute on
Drug Abuse is pursuing a mix of approaches that include developing non-opioid pain medicines, conducting research on vaccines that may blunt the impact of fentanyl and its related offshoots, getting public health organizations to increase the availability and use of medications
already available to treat opioid addiction and getting medications such as buprenorphine and naloxone, which suppress withdrawal symptoms and ease cravings, into the hands emergency room doctors dealing with patients with opioid addictions.
However, as many anti-inflammatory
drugs are
already available, there may be a relatively short path to designing clinical trials for
drugs that modulate the inflammatory response in people with neurodegenerative disease.
Because these
drugs have
already passed FDA - safety tests, it could be
available to patients on the order of a few years, rather than decades.
«That's why we started thinking of what different ways we can use
drugs already available to combat this problem.»
In the Netherlands, based on research reported in 2016 in Science Translational Medicine, Clevers and colleagues are
already using personalized gut organoids, derived from rectal biopsies, to test whether cystic fibrosis patients will benefit from
available drugs.
Dr Lobo continues: «By using the medications we
already have
available and taking a personalised approach to prescribing these
drugs — avoiding an «off the shelf» regime — it allowed patients to tolerate increased numbers of medications and ultimately resulted in significant and long lasting lowering of blood pressure.
By 2000, pharmaceutical pipelines were filled with «me too»
drugs that offered low risk and a quick route to approval, but only marginal improvement over
drugs already available.
It will contain two
drugs, one of which is
already available at $ 1,000 per dose, or $ 84,000 for a complete 12 - week course.
This approach, however, differs from liquid biopsies, including commercial tests, which only profile a relatively small portion of the genome in patients
already diagnosed with cancer for the purpose of helping monitor the disease or detect actionable alterations that can be matched to
available drugs or clinical trials.
This molecule plays an important role in some cancers and
drugs that block it are
already available to patients — but making
drugs that are more effective and less damaging to healthy cells could lead to patients living longer and reduce side effects.»
These encouraging results show that olaparib could be the next
drug to add to those
already available.
«Oligonucleotide - based
drugs are
already available, and it's very possible that our method could be used to produce purer and cheaper versions of these
drugs,» says Dr Björn Högberg.
New research findings published in the February 2016 issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology, suggest that a new therapeutic strategy for HIV may
already be
available by repurposing an existing prescription
drug.
«It is potentially exciting that low doses of a
drug already available in the clinic could help limit the number of people who develop dementia.
Doctors are
already using
drugs, such as Herceptin, that specifically target malfunctioning genetic pathways in tumors, but no such therapies are currently
available for certain aggressive forms of the disease, such as the triple negative subtype.
Drugs that are used to close this channel in other forms of treatments are
already available.
Part of the decline in new
drugs is that there are less «me too»
drugs that are similar to those
already available.»
Using Low ‐ Cost
Drugs in the case of Acute Heart Attacks in poorer nations (these are
already available in developed countries) 11.
Prepare a list of any meds you are taking Speaking of
drugs, as mentioned
already the examiner will ask about your medical history so have a list
available of any medications you are currently taking, including prescription and over-the-counter
drugs.