Sentences with phrase «hydroxyurea for»
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In an accompanying editorial, Debra L. Weiner and Carlo Brugnara of Harvard Medical School call for increased use of hydroxyurea.
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The committee also strongly advocates for prescribing hydroxyurea, an oral medication taken once daily that has become the standard of care.
Despite hydroxyurea's proven benefits, the optimal dosing strategy for the drug has remained controversial.
«A clinically meaningful fetal hemoglobin threshold for children with sickle cell anemia during hydroxyurea therapy.»
Rather than calculating a standard dose of hydroxyurea based on patients» weight, researchers used a dose - escalation approach to determine the maximum tolerated dose for each of the 230 St. Jude patients enrolled in the study.
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.