"If you raise HDL in non-pharmacologic ways, it really does help you, " says Steve Kopecky, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist.

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Alternative therapies, such as music and other non-pharmacologic solutions, may also work, although we need more evidence-based research to know for sure.

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They also claim that the pharmacologic caffeine produces less irritation to the stomach, while the high buffered aspirin dose provides more rapid and sustained relief of your headache.

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We think there are plenty of targets to get excited about in the field of immunokinase modulation, many with strong preclinical rationale and compelling human genetic linkages despite lacking clinical-stage pharmacologic validation.

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Finally, whenever I talk about specific pharmacologic treatments I need to disclose that in addition to my academic work I have given lectures for two pharmaceutical companies in the last year: Lilly and Wyeth.

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Pharmacologic modulation of the BAX pro-apoptotic pathway .

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