Sentences with phrase «combination with other drugs»

It also may be useful to treat chronic pain when administered in combination with other drugs.

The drug, also already approved for lung cancer, is a pillar of Roche's cancer drug strategy and is seen by its scientists as a backbone for multiple combinations with other drugs to fight various forms of the disease.

Pseudoephedrine can be found as a single ingredient or in combination with other drugs like antihistamines, guaifenesin, dextromethorphan, paracetamol (acetaminophen), and / or NSAIDs (e.g., aspirin, ibuprofen, etc.).

ERIE COUNTY, NY — The Erie County Medical Examiner's office reports a recent increase over the past month in the number of suspected drug overdose deaths involving the drug fentanyl, either alone or in combination with other drugs such as heroin and cocaine.

For example, artemisinin is meant to be used in combination with other drugs.

But topping the list is Vertex (VRTX), which has a veritable plethora of HCV drugs in late - stage clinical trials, which are used either alone, or in combination with other drugs.

The next step will be to test TAS - 102 in combination with other drugs that are customarily used in conjunction with 5 - FU, and compare results, Mayer said.

And this precursor to resistance seems to be spreading, despite efforts to carefully use artemisinin (by giving it in combination with other drugs) to avoid the emergence of resistance.

The new fixed - dose combination is only approved in combination with other drugs (dasabuvir and / or ribavirin).

Dasabuvir is only approved in combination with other drugs (ombitasvir / paritaprevir / ritonavir and / or ribavirin).

Further analysis of each individual condition could reveal that heparin alone or in combination with other drugs, such as aspirin, may help to prevent one or more of those conditions in women who had, say, prior severe preeclampsia or who gave birth to a child with severe low birth weight.

He said MW108 was designed to minimize drug interaction so it could be used in combination with other drugs.

Other threats to artemisinin's effectiveness come from counterfeiters who sell fake, weakened or ineffective versions of the drug, from doctors who prescribe it for treating non-malarial fevers, and from use of the drug on its own instead of in combination with other drugs.

«Blocking the MVP might effectively kill cancer cells that overexpress the Arf6 pathway, especially in combination with other drugs,» Sabe says.

«I'm concerned,» says Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, or NIAID, in Bethesda, Md. «Artemisinin derivatives used in combination with other drugs have been game changers.»

Or if used in a vaccine, they may be most effective in combination with other drugs: a few patients in the small clinical trials whose cancer relapsed after the trials responded to treatment with a checkpoint inhibitor.

Researchers are also finding ways to manipulate mAbs to make them even more powerful, and to craft them to work in combination with other drugs — for example, by delivering cancer - killing drugs directly to a tumor.

PD - 1 has generated intense excitement among cancer biologists because of the promising responses shown in clinical trials using anti-PD-1 as both monotherapy and in combination with other drugs, including ipilimumab (anti-CTLA-4).

To date, several thousand cancer patients have received ipilimumab treatment in clinical trials for a variety of cancers, either as a monotherapy or in combination with other drugs.

All in all, the researchers maintain that their results support the use of sorafenib in combination with other drugs in the treatment of multiple myeloma.

Gabapentin may be used alone or in combination with other drugs.

Other uses include: controlling allergic skin diseases in dogs (in combination with other drugs) and for the protection of the kidneys in pets taking the drug cyclosporine.

Abilify is frequently marketed, by itself or in combination with other drugs, as a treatment for major depression and other conditions.