"A lot of the treatment shifting to combination therapy is shifting to treatment with ribavirin, " says Gemayel.
The crucial trick with ARVs is to use several different treatments simultaneously, an approach known as combination therapy.
Both Roche and Bristol confirmed to Forbes that they are exploring combination therapy.
Sharon Belvin was one of the first to try such a combination therapy.
"Research actually supports combination therapy of omega-3 supplements and medication for people at risk for heart disease, " says Dr. O'Keefe.
"This important new combination therapy reflects the growing potential of ezetimibe, " said FredHassanFred Hassan, chairman of Schering-Plough, in a prepared statement.
What if Kineret and Enbrel work better when given at the same time, as a combination therapy, than either does alone?
If this trial is successful, then further testing is planned to see how well the new molecule performs in combination therapy.
"This important new combination therapy reflects the growing potential of ezetimibe, " said Fred Hassan , chairman of Schering-Plough, in a prepared statement.
Dr Walker said that as well as proving to be an effective treatment, the combination therapy should also greatly reduce side-effects for the patient.
An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration unanimously voted Nov. 14 that Roche's new combination therapy for hepatitis C should be approved.
Where chloroquine fails, artemisinin-based combination therapy is usually effective, but these pills are expensive and unfamiliar, so donor help will be important in promoting their use.
As with combination therapy, the risk of fractures is lower, but there is an increased risk of stroke, gallbladder disease, deep vein thrombosis and urinary incontinence.
But because its mechanism of action is so different from the statins, Zetia could be used as combination therapy, reducing the statin dosage necessary to lower cholesterol.
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 combination therapy for Hepatitis C.
Bernstein, surveyed neurologists before the drug was approved. 60% of the doctors he surveyed will use the combination therapy in most of those patients whose disease is not stable.
Now, if you had a combination therapy with nanoparticles, the drugs would slowly release into the tumor cells and you would have high, sustained levels of drug in the tumor.
Its main product will be an antiviral drug called ribavirin, which is being marketed by Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people) as part of a combination therapy for hepatitis C.
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.
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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.
"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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In the last few years, the number of people in Europe and the USA who have been dying from Aids has been massively reduced due to the arrival of combination therapy - a individualised cocktail of at least three to four different HIV drugs.
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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Botox has been used for years in these stroke patients in combination with physical therapy.
Scientists believe it could used in combination with behavioural therapy to overcome addiction.
We'll show you how Botox has been used for years in these stroke patients in combination with physical therapy.
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.
The results show that patients taking a double therapy combination of either a diuretic or an ACE inhibitors or ARB with an NSAID were at no increased risk of kidney injury.
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However, a triple therapy combination of a diuretic with an ACE inhibitor or ARB and an NSAID was associated with a 31% higher rate of kidney injury, particularly elevated in the first 30 days of treatment during which it was 82% higher.
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In fact, in 2004 the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued guidelines calling the combination a first-line therapy.
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