Do drugs really have to be so expensive? asks Michelle Childs of Medicins Sans Frontiers.
All had to promise not to do drugs, smoke or consume alcohol for at least two months.
All had promised not to do drugs, smoke or consume alcohol for at least two months, hopefully forever.
Studies have shown that young people in mentoring relationships get better grades in school, they're less likely to drink, they're less likely to do drugs.
It turns out that with the father being involved, the kids are less likely to do drugs, they're less likely to -- girls are less likely to get pregnant.
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This highlights a tough dilemma in drug safety: what to do about drugs that help many but harm a few.
Must we treat peanuts, peanut butter and foods with traces of peanuts in them as we do hard drugs or cigarettes?
One reason is that that bio-defense contracts come in clumps and don't provide a steady stream of revenue, as do traditional drugs.
The idea being that certain financial innovations are potentially dangerous and thus should be examined and approved, just as we do with drugs and medical treatments, before they are deployed into the marketplace.
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Microbocides, which are topical, do not carry the same risk of unforeseen setbacks or hidden side-effects as do internal drugs, which have to navigate through the body's entire system, so if VivaGel has made it this far, it's hard to imagine a real failure further down the line.
The fact is, most new drugs do benefit patients relative to older generic drugs.
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Most people are treated with steroids, but the drugs do not work for all.
The drugs do not compete, because they are used for different forms of the disease.
But his government has shown much willingness to try to do something about drugs.
They do so because drugs like Solaris actually save the health care system money.
Even if the new multiwarhead drugs do work, tumors may eventually become resistant, forcing researchers back to the drawing board.
These statin drugs do a great job cutting LDL, the bad cholesterol that cakes up in arteries and then breaks off, causing heart attacks.
But vaccines in general bear burdens that other drugs do not.
Zyprexa seems to cause more weight gain than the other drugs do, and critics say it may be more likely to cause diabetes or heart problems.
But some also suggested that the warning could be removed if a trial showed Celebrex did not pose more of a heart risk than other drugs do.
From the moment it hit the market in 1999, Vioxx had one vital claim: It was a safer painkiller that didn't cause ulcers as often as older drugs do.
While cardiologists believe massive LDL-lowering is worth it, existing drugs do the job well enough--and cheap generic versions of Zocor and Pravachol, from Bristol-Myers Squibb, are on the way.
But there is more to running a successful pharmaceutical company than just the number of products being approved by the FDA. What value do these new drugs generate?
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The Minister also argued that many new drugs do not have as many benefits as they claim in prolonging life and warned that patients can suffer side effects worse than the original symptoms.
The company is testing a drug that works the opposite way all current HIV drugs do: Instead of halting the virus' reproduction, the drug embraces that process and forces the virus to mutate more often.
The researchers accept many people believe the drugs do work for them, but argue that could be a placebo effect - people feel better simply because they are taking a medication which they think will help them.
"Crimes like selling small amounts of drugs do not just cancel the future of our young people, but lead to social decline in communities, opening the door to illicit activities, " Mr Calderon said in a televised address.
While cardiologists believe massive LDL-lowering is worth it, existing drugs do the job well enough--and cheap generic versions of Zocor and Pravachol, from Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ), are on the way.
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