Over 575, 000 installed devices help with drug therapy making the medication process more efficient.
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Isentress was approved in 2007 for patients whose viral counts were rising despite AIDS drug therapy.
One hint could come from Courage, a 2, 300-patient study that will compare stent procedures to drug therapy.
Drug therapy with alpha-interferon slows the disease, but side effects are so severe that many can't bear it.
At a home-health agency, I spoke to a nurse who could provide intravenous-drug therapy for patients with congestive heart failure.
Many cancer specialists see vaccines as a plausible alternative to drug therapy.
And it is not necessarily the case that a diagnosis of depression always implies some sort of drug therapy to treat it.
In a treatment undertaken after more than ten years of drug therapy had failed, around 100 electrodes were implanted in the woman's brain.
Anyone who has benefited from an MRI exam, a new drug therapy or a high-tech surgical procedure knows the value of biomedical innovation.
Carotid surgery began over a half-century ago, and studies by the 1990s clearly showed it was more effective than existing drug therapy at preventing strokes.
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.
Of the 6m people in the developing world in need of anti-retroviral drug therapy, less than 4% were receiving the necessary drugs by the end of last year.
He added that the study showed the impact of the combined HIV strategy of promoting condoms, increasing regular HIV testing and encouraging the earlier use of anti-HIV drug therapy.
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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The aim of BNF (British National Formulary) for Children is to provide a practical, relevant and authoritative information source for all health professionals involved in the drug therapy of children.
Biogen (nasdaq: BGEN - news - people ) expects that about 1.5 million psoriasis sufferers have severe enough rashes and lesions that they might want to try drug therapy.
Abdul-Jabbar also works as a paid spokesman for Novartis Pharmaceuticals, which makes Tasigna, the drug therapy he takes to manage his CML. He says this role exposes him to a new fan base.
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The federal parliament recently voted to expand the trials and make them a permanent feature of the country's drug therapy, along with methadone substitution, currently given to 14, 000 heroin addicts, and abstinence programmes.
This may be because some people were erroneously put on the drugs, or because years of drug therapy healed heart damage, or simply because taking people off the pills motivates them to clean up their behavior.
Sixty percent of myeloma patients die within five years, but Giusti beat the odds, living for a decade and a half through multiple rounds of drug therapy and a bone marrow transplant from her twin sister.
The current standard treatment cures between 66% and 79% of patients with the most common type of hepatitis C, known as genotype 1, and who are undergoing the drug therapy for the first time, according to clinical data cited by the Food and Drug Administration.
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Even excluding patients who didn't receive the device, strokes were relatively low in both the PFO group 1.2% and the drug-therapy group, which was 3.3%.
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The prohibition on off-label drug communications has likely caused unnecessary pain to patients, especially those suffering from cancer and HIV who could benefit from off-label drug and therapy uses.
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"We will research a new drug combination therapy 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.
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Head-to-head comparisons of a new drug with existing therapy requires extensive clinical trials.
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One trial is pitting the drug against standard therapy among colon cancer patients with liver metastases, looking to slow the time it takes the cancer to progress.
This month, a committee from the European Medicines Agency recommended the approval of a gene therapy drug, named Glybera (alipogene tiparvovec), for the treatment of a rare inherited genetic disorder.
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In China, Shenzhen SiBiono GeneTech won approval for a gene therapy drug for head and neck cancer in 2003 but no products have been approved until now in Europe or the United States.
What is the competition and what benefit does this new drug offer over existing therapy?
"This approval unlocks the potential of gene therapy because it is a first at either the EMA or FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) for gene therapy, " uniQure's chief executive Jorn Aldag said in an interview.
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