The only reason this problem is not larger is that many people turn to illegal drugs.
What horrid venture will crime turn to once drugs are legalised?
But 79% of patients switched off of Geodon, so for the sickest patients, physicians may want to turn to the more powerful drugs.
The Iraq strain has proved particularly resistant to current drugs, forcing docs to turn to a medicine called colistin, which is so toxic to the kidneys that it is used only rarely.
It is this mark of Cain, the brand of the former felon, which Alexander claims is the tool that a racist society uses to turn young black men foolish enough to get involved in drugs into permanent members of the underclass.
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The Golden Triangle Partnership is not, however, looking for new molecules to turn into chemically pure drugs.
Because tumors are caused by stem cells run amok, drugs to turn down their activity might be potent cancer medicines.
Unfortunately, it doesn't have the money to turn that research into drugs.
In 2008 that figure was 21%, although, in line with rates for the rest of the population, only 45% of pregnant women who did turn out to be infected received drugs to control their infection.
Like Watson, Horton believed the fastest and cheapest way to aid poor countries was to turn existing laboratory compounds into new drugs.
Like Watson, Horton believed the fastest and cheapest way to aid poor countries was to turn existing lab compounds into new drugs.
In turn, doctors advise companies on how to make drugs safer and more effective.
The huge number of medicines that turn out to cause liver problems, including withdrawn drugs like Baycol from Bayer or Rezulin from Pfizer, were screened first in cells, then in animals before they were tested in large clinical trails in people.
The huge number of medicines that turn out to cause liver problems, including withdrawn drugs like Baycol from Bayer (nyse: BAY - news - people ) or Rezulin from Pfizer, were screened first in cells, then in animals before they were tested in large clinical trails in people.
That, in turn, could hinder emerging efforts to match patients with drugs that target the mutations affecting their tumors, a basic strategy of personalized medicine.
By turn, Amgen expects to face such competition for its own drugs when their patents expire.
Then the drugs show lackluster efficacy, or turn out to have unanticipated nasty side effects.
What both Merck and Lilly covet is GlycoFi's ability to optimize the sugar structures on proteins, which in turn makes drugs perform better.
"It only takes a few minutes and some simple kitchen implements to turn cocaine into crack, " says Aiden Gray of COCA, a drugs information service.
Will parents turn in a coach to be tested because they figure he had to be on drugs to send that runner from third on that fly ball?
Lacking genuinely new medicines or definitive proof that their costly, patented drugs work better than cheap ones, producers are forced to turn minor marketing advantages into billion-dollar opportunities.
He hopes that he can design clinical trials to understand potential risks as early as possible, and plans to aim his drugs at patients who are very sick--so that even if side effects turn up, the medicines will remain useful.
Scientists are trying to develop other drugs that athletes might choose to abuse, including gene therapies, a spate of experimental medicines that turn normal rodents into mighty mice and new growth hormones.
The fear, as propagated by the food processing industry and other critics, is that drug genes will hop to the chromosomes of plants used for food, contaminating the food supply with vaccines and drugs, in turn triggering costly recalls and potential legal liability.
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