Sentences with phrase «important access to drug»

He and other experts also pointed out that Medicaid not only prescribes medication but provides important access to drug treatment programs designed to help address the growing epidemic.

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It is critically important that patients have access to highly effective drugs that not only cure them but will also lower the associated costs of long - term management of the disease.

«Understanding HCV disease progression rates among people who inject drugs (PWID) is important to setting policy to expand access to detection, diagnosis and treatment, and in forecasting the burden of disease,» said Holly Hagan, PhD, the principal investigator for the HCV Synthesis Project, who also is a professor at New York University College of Nursing (NYUCN) and co-director at CDUHR.

The chemical reactions she has developed are widely used throughout the pharmaceutical industry to create new drug candidates, are being studied by chemical companies interested in accessing important chemicals used in farming, and are being utilized to prepare a type of chemical (tracer) that allows doctors to view the heart's sympathetic nervous system through positron emission tomography (PET) scans.

An important upside of an open - label extension is that it rewards the volunteers who took part in the original study by giving them guaranteed access to the active drug.

Equally important, by securing access to the best drugs from multiple companies, CRI is able to conduct clinical trials of novel combinations that might not otherwise be conducted.

This led the Food and Drug Administration to announce an important step forward in broadening access: Plan B One - Step will become available without a prescription for women 15 years of age and older.