The use of combinationdrugtherapy (two or more drugs) was also highest in the U.S. (64 percent compared with 44 percent to 59 percent in the European countries).
Dietary fat and simple-carbohydrate consumption be reduced in combination with drugtherapy to lower the risk of pancreatitis for patients with severe and very severe hypertriglyceridemia.
"We will research a new drugcombinationtherapy which aims to specifically target aggressive prostate tumours to control their growth and, most importantly, reduce the number of tumours which form in other areas of the body, " she said.
Most patients taking PEG-Intron are given the drug packaged with Ribapharm 's (nyse: RNA - news - people ) ribavirin drug--the combinationtherapy can get rid of hepatitis C entirely in many patients.
In justifying his strong buy rating on the company, Carl Byrns at Dain Rauscher Wessels points to an anti-viral drug: Peg-intron plus ribavirin combinationtherapy for Hepatitis C.
An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration unanimously voted Nov. 14 that Roche's new combinationtherapy for hepatitis C should be approved.
Bernstein, surveyed neurologists before the drug was approved. 60% of the doctors he surveyed will use the combinationtherapy in most of those patients whose disease is not stable.
While the drug exhibited double-digit growth in the last couple of quarters due to its use in triple-combination therapy, patients are going off the therapy, and this should result in declining sales going forward.