These include, but are not limited to, drugs commonly used to treat depression and migraine.
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Gen Aristides said recently he believed smuggling had surged since the US limited anti-drugs co-operation with Honduras in protest at the ousting of President Zelaya in June.
In summary, drugs without a significant return on investment, will often be limited in their production in favor of drugs which may produce higher profit margins.
Police have said they have detected more aircraft carrying drugs but have limited resources to stop them without US helicopters and radar.
Even for newer treatments without scientific backing, doctors are realising that in some cases (such as for arthritis and relieving the pain and stress of some cancer patients) drugs have only limited effectiveness, and that massage can often do more to make the patient feel better.
Based on a thorough review of the available scientific information, FDA has created a strategy for the judicious use of medically important antimicrobials in food-producing animals that states their use should be limited to situations where the drugs are necessary for ensuring animal health, and done so under veterinary guidance.
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The country bans possession and consumption of both hard and soft drugs, except for limited medical purposes.
Results from lab tests and limited human trials show that these drugs can improve lung capacity by 10% or cut collagen production by 70%.
Rader says that even in a worst-case scenario, it might be possible to get the Amgen or Regeneron-Sanofi drugs approved for some limited slice of population before big studies, already started by both companies, to prove they reduce heart attacks and strokes are complete.
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It argues that current laws have had limited success in deterring people from taking drugs.
The main current treatment for the disease is drugs but their success is limited and the side effects can be significant.
From the start, the COX-2 drugs were designed for a limited number of patients--those who were at high risk for ulcers and other stomach problems.
One drug company has offered to supply free anti-AIDS drugs to South Africa for a limited period.
He told them that although their involvement was said to be "limited", every "link" in drugs chain has to be recognised and custody was appropriate.
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If AstraZeneca is right, then all of the EGF drugs could see their market severely limited until doctors and drugmakers learn to use these compounds in chemotherapy.
Guidelines from NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence) published in 2006 advised clinicians to only prescribe this class of drugs to people with dementia for limited times and after exhausting alternatives first.
After last year's ruling, Peter Littlejohns, NICE's clinical and public health director, noted that "there is a limited pot of money, " that the drugs were of "marginal benefit at quite often an extreme cost, " and the money might be better spent elsewhere.
Unfortunately, for the drugs in common use, only a limited number have been studied to determine what genes are responsible.
In an accompanying editorial, John Teerlink and Barry Massie, both cardiologists at the University of California, San Francisco, write that Sackner-Bernstein's data, though extremely limited, sheds an important light on the way drugs are approved and prescribed.
Drugs on the market now are considered of limited effectiveness and treat the symptoms of the disease for a limited period of time.
Doctors have spent decades using drugs to tweak aberrant brain chemicals, with only limited success.
These drugs are very expensive and, since many are used in combination with other cancer drugs, the costs can be prohibitive for those with limited or no health insurance.
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Because patients and their insurance companies only have a limited amount of money to pay for pricey medicines, the two drugs could find themselves competing for the attention of the same doctors at almost the same time.
Mr. Kerlikowske said the issue was one of limited police resources, adding that he doesn't support efforts to legalize drugs.
James Underberg, a cardiologist at the New York University Medical Center who participated in trials of Januvia, says that the concern that the drug has been studied in only a limited number of patients is real, and that doctors should be cautious with new drugs.
This limited success will probably be enough to get Erbitux approved, given the FDA's new relaxed stance toward cancer drugs.
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