Sentences with phrase «percent less drug»

He took almost twenty - five percent less drug than the last one, and it's not stomach content that does that.»

Not exact matches

The drug at the heart of four lawsuits in New Jersey is insulin — «a century - old medicine that for most of its history cost $ 15 or less,» write Barrett and Langreth, but «whose list price has risen more than 270 percent over the past decade.»

The dispute involves the drug Zarxio, an alternative that Sandoz developed to compete with Neupogen that sells for about 15 percent less than the original product.

(Reuters)- Acorda Therapeutics Inc (ACOR.O) will cut nearly 20 percent of its workforce as part of a cost reduction plan, the company said on Wednesday, less than a week after losing certain patents for its multiple sclerosis (MS) drug, Ampyra.

Much less than 1.5 percent of the general population commits murder or deals in drugs.

If the dosage the baby will receive is less than 10 percent, the drug exposure will generally be considered unimportant, although there are some exceptions.

Hospira dropped the drug «with regret», according to spokesman Daniel Rosenberg, who says that it still has a legitimate medical use, although it currently accounts for less than a quarter of a percent of Hospira's sales.

Yet the NIH allocates less than 1 percent of its $ 30 billion annual budget to «comparative effectiveness research,» the kind needed to sort out the surgeries, drugs, and devices that work from those that do not.

Using drugs to lower systolic blood pressure to less than 120 millimeters of mercury cut people's risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular woes by 25 percent, researchers report November 9 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

After 24 weeks, virus levels were undetectable — defined as less than 50 copies per milliliter of blood — in 62 percent of patients receiving TMC125, compared with 44 percent that received only the other drugs.

The risk of riding with an impaired driver was much higher for peer drivers than for older adult drivers (21 percent vs. 2.4 percent for marijuana, 17 percent vs. 4 percent for alcohol, and 5.4 percent vs. less than 1 percent for illicit drugs).

For those with past failed therapies and potential resistance, the drugs were slightly less successful, eliminating the virus in 87 percent.

This year Wyeth Pharmaceutical introduced a lower - dose version of Prempro (with 28 percent less estrogen and 40 percent less progestin) with a warning that the drug should be limited to short - term use.

Cannabis - primary respondents were even less likely to have used formal treatment or support services than were those resolving problems with illicit drugs — 18 percent versus 42 percent — but were more likely to have participated in drug courts than those who had resolved alcohol problems — 24 percent versus 8 percent.

One was that all studies were short - term, less than six months, and all studies on effective drugs had more than 9 percent of participants drop out due to adverse effects.

Less than 10 percent of respondents in 2006 were taking mood - altering drugs (such as antidepressants or tranquilizers), which increased to 13 percent in 2010.

In fact, a 2009 FDA study showed that of 2,070 orally administered generic drug products approved by the agency between 1996 to 2007, generics differ in bioequivalency from brand names, on average, by about 3.5 percent; less than two percent varied by more than 10 percent.

The raw data showed that taking COX - 2 inhibitors correlated with a 9 percent higher risk of gastrointestinal bleeds, a potentially life - threatening side effect — a surprise, since a raft of clinical studies had previously shown that those drugs were less likely to cause gi bleeds.

They also tested to see if the drug was inhibiting production of normal RNAs in the cells, and found that it altered less than 5 percent of normal RNA sequences

The initial NMR data supported this idea, indicating that very little of the drug — less than 5 percent — actually formed channels in membranes.

In 2014, such drugs accounted for less than one percent of prescriptions in the U.S., but nearly a third of total prescription spending.

Several years ago, almost a quarter of those with moderate to sever psoriasis were using a drug called Entanercept (Embrel), but this has reduced in recent years to less than ten percent.

They found that women who took 2 or more tablets per week of over-the-counter anti-inflammatory drugs at standard doses for 5 to 9 years, had 21 percent less risk of breast cancer.

Benzodiazepine users also were at increased risk, with 31 percent of overdose deaths involving a drug like fentanyl in 2016 compared with less than 12 percent in 2010, according to the report.

Those who attended preschool were 28 percent less likely to be in jail or develop alcohol or drug problems, were 24 percent more likely to attend a four - year college, and 20 percent saw higher incomes.

Despite this, only 39 percent of employers surveyed view prescription drug abuse as a safety threat, and even less — 24 percent — consider it to be a measurable problem.

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Drug & Alcohol Counselors earn less than 54 % percent of Services careers.

Drug & Alcohol Counselors earn less than 60 % percent of Services careers in Texas.

Drug & Alcohol Counselors earn less than 69 % percent of Services careers in Mississippi.

Drug & Alcohol Counselors earn less than 57 % percent of Services careers in West Virginia.