Sentences with phrase «use of hydroxyurea»

St. Jude pioneered the use of hydroxyurea to treat sickle cells in children.

In an accompanying editorial, Debra L. Weiner and Carlo Brugnara of Harvard Medical School call for increased use of hydroxyurea.

Not exact matches

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.

Also lacking has been evidence of overall improved patient outcomes if hydroxyurea is used to increase blood levels of fetal hemoglobin to more than 20 percent.

Recently, drugs such as 5 - hydroxyurea have been used to treat meningiomas, but as yet there are no data on the efficacy of this approach.