The pill is given at a single dose and starts working in two hours.
It has also opened the possibility of single dose vaccines with a long-term immunity response.
After other treatments failed, his doctor injected a single dose of Avastin into the eye in July 2005.
So some women might have a single dose of these genes while others will have a double dose.
For children, roughly 9 out of 10 children vaccinated with a single dose of the chicken pox vaccine will develop immunity against chicken pox.
Dr. Mann was looking mainly at the drug's safety, but he was surprised when patients started feeling less fatigued and more energetic after a single dose.
Also exciting: a stop-smoking pill, a long-delayed inhaled insulin, an osteoporosis medicine, a sleep drug and an antibiotic that can treat infections in a single dose.
There is no evidence that they have any benefits after a single dose, and the longer term benefits of treatment over periods of six-months or longer are minimal.
Alnylam's CEO, John Maraganore, says another piece of good news is the injections didn't cause any side effects, at least not from the single dose the animals got.
Bharat Biotech sells a single dose of its hepatitis B vaccine for 20 cents and Bharti Airtel provides one of the cheapest wireless telephone services in the world.
Though it is similar to the antibodies a vaccine might train the body to make, ABthrax might be used to immunize rescue workers or soldiers in a single dose.
In a trial of 38, 546 people 60 and up, sponsored by the VA and Merck, a single dose reduced the incidence of shingles over the next three years by half and slashed severe cases of postshingles pain (usually lasting three months or more) by two-thirds, according to the results in the New England Journal of Medicine (June 2, 2005).
Although the blockbuster antibiotic Zithromax is losing patent protection, Pfizer plans to launch a single-dose version of the drug.
In the U.S. we've done single-dose studies, and they're nearly complete, and so far things have gone remarkably well.
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In order to get a single therapeutic dose of bute from horsemeat you'd need to eat 500-600 250g horse burgers.
The results, so far, suggest a single nasal dose of oxytocin could activate brain regions known to process social information.
The single daily dose of rivaroxaban was also criticized.
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If that is true, then certain drugs designed to affect the immune system might be more effective if delivered as small doses at different times, rather than as a single, continuous dose.
It will also provide a stereotactic radiosurgery service (SRS) which involves the precise delivery of a single fraction of high-dose radiation, usually within the skull.
If you received that Defkalion dose for one hour, you would be approximately at the U.S. limit on effective dose from a single airport security screening.
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The graphic below shows levels of acute exposure and the corresponding health effects based on total dose occurring in in a single day.
Pending availability of the FDC tablets containing 50 mg of sitagliptin, patients who require this dose should continue to use the single ingredient sitagliptin tablet.
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The company says its Single Pose Secure scanner uses an extremely low-dose X-ray, equivalent to spending two minutes on an aircraft.
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Even subsistence fishermen, who eat far more fish than the typical American, would receive a dose of radiation from the cesium isotopes released in the meltdown equivalent to a single dental X-ray, Fisher and his colleagues reported.
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