Sentences with phrase «drug hydroxyurea»

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Patients treated with a drug called hydroxyurea produce «healthier» red cells, suffer fewer painful attacks and need fewer transfusions, they say.

At the present time, hydroxyurea is the only Food and Drug Administration - approved medication that decreases the number of pain crises and episodes of acute chest syndrome.

«Using the anti-cancer drug and a replication inhibitor, hydroxyurea, in the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we observed that double strand breaks preferentially occurred at hydroxyurea - induced genes,» said Feng.

Despite hydroxyurea's proven benefits, the optimal dosing strategy for the drug has remained controversial.

Currently available treatments including hydroxyurea, which is the only FDA approved drug for SCA, and hemopoietic stem cell transplantation all have significant limitations, so the search for new therapeutic options continues.

Recently, drugs such as 5 - hydroxyurea have been used to treat meningiomas, but as yet there are no data on the efficacy of this approach.