Sentences with phrase «main class of drug»

Anti-inflammatory and other pain medications: The main class of drug used for dogs with osteoarthritis is non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).

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(Reuters)- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc's RNAi - based drug that targets a rare genetic disease met the main goal of a key study, in a breakthrough for the new class of medicines that works by blocking disease - causing proteins.

However, the main reason the lipid theory of heart disease continues in the U.S. is because to admit that this hypothesis is wrong is to admit that a whole class of pharmaceutical drugs is unnecessary, statin drugs that lower one's cholesterol artificially.

Promisingly, another drug called imipramine, which belongs to the second main class of antidepressants, had similar effects on miRNA - 1202 to citalopram, when applied to neurons grown in the lab.