The 12 patients who took Vertex's drug in combination with interferon and ribavirin showed no sign of the virus after four weeks of treatment.
Mark Levin , Millennium's CEO, has said that Velcade could eventually become a blockbuster, but only after new data come in on using the drug in combination with chemotherapy for more common cancers.
In the first stage of a phase III study called CLL11, the drug in combination with chemotherapy significantly reduced the risk of disease worsening or death compared to chemotherapy alone in previously untreated patients.
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Yesterday evening, Genentech released results of a midstage clinical test of its colorectal cancer drug Avastin in combination with chemotherapy.
And now, the drug, in combination with the chemotherapy Taxol, allows patients with early-stage breast cancer an average of four months without their disease progressing.
But they also should listen for concerns about preventing overuse of the drug, its use in combination, or other worries that could warrant limiting use.
Dietary fat and simple-carbohydrate consumption be reduced in combination with drug therapy to lower the risk of pancreatitis for patients with severe and very severe hypertriglyceridemia.
On Friday the drug was approved for use in combination with Aromasin for postmenopausal women with recurring HER2-negative breast cancer, after treatment with the drugs Femara and Arimidex.
Kalydeco got them for additional, future indications in other mutations and in combination with another drug.
This indicates that existing antibiotics may be more effective against drug-resistant infections if used in combination with manuka honey.
Scientists believe the drug may be particularly effective when used in combination with other anti-cancer treatments.
Celsion is dedicated to the development and commercialization of oncology drugs including tumor-targeting treatments using focused heat energy in combination with heat activated drug delivery systems.
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Pfizer is still conducting tests of the drug in breast cancer, colorectal cancer, skin cancer and in lung cancer in combination with Genentech 's (nyse: DNA - news - people ) Tarceva, according to Ray Kerins, a Pfizer spokesman.
But that figure could go higher as a result of the lawsuit brought by hundreds of thousands of people seeking damages for heart problems associated with taking either of two diet drugs made by American Home Products ahp (nyse: ahp - news - people) in combination with another diet drug.
Instead, it is designed to work in combination with Herceptin, each drug attacking the protein in a different way.
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The most popular drug, as in previous years, is the combination of hydrocodone and acetaminophen better known by its old brand name, Vicodin.
Glyn Edwards, Antisoma's chief executive officer, said they hoped to complete Phase 1 testing the drug alone and start Phase 1b studies using it in combination with chemotherapy by the end of next year.
Due to the lack of evidence of efficacy in early clinical trials, the drug (a combination of two proven cardiac medicines) had been rejected by the Food and Drug Administration nine years previously for approval for patients of all races.
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Pfizer manufactured the combination drug Prempro, one of the drugs in the 2002 study.
Markowitz says the drug has modest potency, but is undergoing a trial in combination with interferon and ribavirin that may show better results.
That's what happened in the 1990s with fen-phen, another diet drug combination that includes phentermine.
Furthermore, on the basis of these results, this drug combination, known as Tredaptive, was approved for sale in Europe in 2008.
However, he said it would almost certainly need to be a vaccine combining multiple "Achilles heels" - in the same way that HIV therapies are a combination of drug treatments.
Most patients taking PEG-Intron are given the drug packaged with Ribapharm 's (nyse: RNA - news - people ) ribavirin drug--the combination therapy can get rid of hepatitis C entirely in many patients.
The pill, a fixed combination of two generic ingredients, is the first drug tested only in African-Americans.
Zetia, which would be given in combination with existing cholesterol medicines, could be the first important drug to come out of Schering's laboratories in some time.
The use of combination drug therapy (two or more drugs) was also highest in the U.S. (64 percent compared with 44 percent to 59 percent in the European countries).
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Pfizer is still conducting tests of the drug in breast cancer, colorectal cancer, skin cancer and in lung cancer in combination with Genentech 's Tarceva, according to Ray Kerins, a Pfizer spokesman.
Genentech's Avastin is awaiting Food and Drug Administration approval after a successful phase-III clinical trial that demonstrated its effectiveness in combination with chemotherapy for treating colorectal cancer.
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