Sentences with phrase «prescribed the drug at»

«It does not mean that domperidone kills,» Dr. Newman says, adding that he will continue to prescribe the drug at his clinic.

An $ 8 - million lawsuit has been launched against Hoffman - La Roche Ltd., the makers of Accutane, on behalf of Jennifer Twamley who was prescribed the drug at age 17 to control her acne.

Not exact matches

Onstage at Fortune, Whitehead said she's happy with the progress because doctors and pharmacies both have to go through additional certification to be able to prescribe the drug.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SDrug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the Sdrug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

And at least 32 countries still prescribe the death penalty for drug offences.

After a brief lag, the drug is now being prescribed at the rate of at least 10,000 scripts a day, outpacing such famous quick starters as the antidepressant Prozac (which went on to become one of the biggest - selling drugs in America) and the baldness remedy Rogaine (which has been something of a disappointment after its initial blaze of popularity).

EUGENE MONROE: We need to look at alternative methods for managing pain in players, especially the ones who experience injuries at a high rate and who are constantly prescribed these drugs to deal with their pain.

At the end of the day, after consulting and researching, if the doctor prescribed the drug then you can decide to take it.

These include the infant with galactosemia, 53,54 the infant whose mother uses illegal drugs, 55 the infant whose mother has untreated active tuberculosis, and the infant in the United States whose mother has been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.56, 57 In countries with populations at increased risk for other infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies resulting in infant death, the mortality risks associated with not breastfeeding may outweigh the possible risks of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus infection.58 Although most prescribed and over-the-counter medications are safe for the breastfed infant, there are a few medications that mothers may need to take that may make it necessary to interrupt breastfeeding temporarily.

It's a drug that is readily prescribed by doctors in Canada (at least in Toronto, where I'm from) for undersupply.

Beth Huntley knows that first hand, watching her 3-1/2 year - old - daughter Harlow improve at an almost miraculous pace after being prescribed a drug manufactured from cannabis.

Federal authorities arrested a Long Island doctor late Sunday at Kennedy Airport they suspect illegally prescribed vast amounts of oxycodone — 365,000 pills in 2015 — in a drug - dealing enterprise spanning three states.

Even though Obama said in 2008 that he considered the «basic concept of using medical marijuana for the same purposes and with the same controls as other drugs prescribed by doctors... entirely appropriate» and did not plan on using the DOJ's resources to circumvent state laws, the department has continued to raid, and in some cases shut down, dispensaries and cultivation facilities in at least nine state since he took office.

U.S. doctors enrolled 42,418 patients from 623 offices and clinics, treated participants with one of four commonly prescribed drugs, and followed them for at least five years to see how well the medications controlled their blood pressure and reduced the risk of heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular problems.

«For example, in Alberta and Ontario, oxycodone is the drug most commonly prescribed at high doses, while in British Columbia, it's morphine.»

While clinicians have been looking at different ways to prevent higher blood glucose levels by prescribing anti-diabetic drugs, Wright said his lab is interested in exercise physiology and trying to figure out how exercise can improve glucose homeostasis.

A team at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago reports that isradipine (brand name DynaCirc), a drug currently prescribed to reduce high blood pressure, may block the death of neurons in patients with advanced cases of Parkinson's and may also be able to prevent the development of the disease.

Now, a new study adds another twist to the story: It argues that two commonly prescribed diabetes drugs with antioxidant properties also spur metastasis, at least in cancer cells and mice.

But for now we urge caution in prescribing this drug to people at increased risk of suffering amputation.»

In men whose prostate cancer spreads, doctors typically prescribe drugs that block testosterone production, but cancer cells eventually become resistant to this means of reducing the hormone, says Denmeade, a professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Patient records of veterans who died from drug overdoses while receiving medical services as an outpatient at the VHA between October 2004 and September 2009 were examined for the relationship between the opioids and benzodiazepines when prescribed concurrently.

«It's not so easy to get physicians in the United States to follow recommendations, so it shouldn't come as a big surprise that community health workers and private shopkeepers in some of the world's poorest countries have a hard time diagnosing and prescribing drugs correctly,» says Chris Plowe, who heads the Institute for Global Health (IGH) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.

The observational study of nearly 9,000 patients found that those prescribed antidepressants at discharge from hospital after a heart attack had a 66 % greater risk of mortality one year later than patients not prescribed the drugs, although they noted the cause is not necessarily related directly to the antidepressants.

Citalopram, the most commonly prescribed drug among patients in the study, was not associated with an increased risk of arrhythmia, even at higher doses.

«We are using CYP2C19 genetic testing on a daily basis at our institution to help decide in a timely manner which drug to prescribe,» said George «Rick» Stouffer, III, M.D., F.A.H.A., chief of cardiology and co-director of the McAllister Heart Institute at UNC.

Doctors often prescribe antipsychotic drugs to reduce irritability, for example, but those drugs don't address the social and communication problems at the heart of the disorder.

AAMI will remain in limbo until government watchdogs are asked to approve a drug developed to treat it, but one thing at least is clear: if it does become the clinical yardstick for deciding who should be prescribed memory - boosting drugs, the potential market will be astronomical.

«Even before the patient completes all of the MRIs, CT scans and other imaging procedures following diagnosis, we can have a recommendation for which drug and dosage to prescribe,» said Kareem Azab, PhD, an assistant professor of radiation oncology at the School of Medicine and the Siteman Cancer Center member who leads the research.

«The best thing would be to have this drug withdrawn from the market, and if it's not, there should at least be mandatory testing because we know that people don't take this as prescribed,» he says, citing a Truvada clinical trial in Africa that was ended prematurely because the drug was not preventing infection.

«Despite strong evidence against the use of codeine in children, the drug continues to be prescribed to large numbers of them each year,» said Sunitha Kaiser, MD, UCSF assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco and lead author.

Interestingly, however, prescription decisions at the VA varied regionally, with some centers prescribing primarily bevacizumab, others primarily ranibizumab, and others alternating between the two drugs.

Prescribing both a stimulant and an antipsychotic drug to children with physical aggression and attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), along with teaching parents to use behavior management techniques, reduces aggressive and serious behavioral problems in the children, according to a study conducted by researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.

At last count, three of the top four drugs prescribed in the NICU were antibiotics.

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine suspected that doctors treating Medicare patients would have a financial incentive to prescribe a more costly drug.

«This study showed that inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics also affects families at a much more practical level, such as missed days from school and work, side effects of the drugs, and costs for extra childcare.

A drug prescribed to many patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder may decrease negative symptoms for people with a certain variant of the COMT gene, suggests a new study from researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC).

They found that prescribing both drugs together was more effective at helping cure an ectopic pregnancy than the conventional drug alone.

The huge confounder here is that doctors prescribe those drugs especially to people at higher risk of gastrointestinal bleeds.

The dilemma for doctors and researchers has been in determining who is at risk of a severe reaction to the drug so that alternative medications can be prescribed.

Doctors and pharmacists should keep in mind the potential for unintended exposure, said Christian Daughton of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, comparing drug waste in water to doctors prescribing a cocktail of unknown medications to healthy people at random.

While it is not harmless, marijuana causes less harm and involves less risk of dependence than alcohol, tobacco and drugs such as benzodiazepines (which are prescribed as sedatives), cocaine and heroin,» says Enzo Tagliazucchi, an addiction researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience.

Previous research published by researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and three other institutions showed that when children with attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and serious physical aggression were prescribed both a stimulant and an antipsychotic drug, along with teaching parents behavior management techniques, they had a reduction of aggressive and serious disruptive behavior.

The JBS3 risk calculator will be a pivotal component of the NHS Health Check program in England aimed at 40 - 74 year olds, but is not intended to prompt blanket prescribing of statins and other heart health drugs, say the authors.

But that optimism, plus the availability of FDA - approved drugs with an HDAC inhibitory effect, has also prompted many families to find doctors who will prescribe these drugs, without knowing whether they work, or at what doses, or in which subset of patients.

A study of how policies restricting pharmaceutical promotion to physicians affect medication prescribing found that physicians in academic medical centers (AMCs) prescribed fewer of the promoted drugs, and more non-promoted drugs in the same drug classes, following policy changes to restrict marketing activities at those medical centers.

In fact, a 2011 global meta - analysis found that only about 3 in 5 people take at least 90 % of their prescribed antiretroviral drugs.

During a meeting at the American Chemical Society it was reported that flavors in some foods offer mood enhancing qualities much like those found in widely prescribed mood stabilizing drugs.

Unfortunately, attention doesn't equal expertise: An investigation from the U.S. Government Accountability Office published this past May found that sales staff at herbal - supplement retailers often gave incorrect or even potentially harmful advice, such as saying it was safe to take an herb - and - drug combination that could increase one's risk of bleeding or telling a customer they could take a supplement instead of a doctor - prescribed medication.

But the truth is that some doctors are pushing the limits of what's medically acceptable, prescribing drugs that may put their patients» safety at risk or offering treatments that aren't proven to work.

A: At the present time the professional community is telling doctors that they have two obligations whenever they prescribe a controlled prescription drug.