One low-dose statin - simvastatin - is available in a low dose to buy from the pharmacist.
Zetia can be added to a low dose of a statin to lower cholesterol even more.
He says patients were "reassured" to be put on a low dose of Vytorin.
Polymyalgia rheumatica is usually treated with a low dose of an oral corticosteroid, such as prednisone.
Taking a low dose of aspirin every day could have the potential to prevent breast cancer or stop it in its tracks.
It appears, however, that adding Zetia to a low dose of a statin, such as Zocor or Lipitor, is as effective as using the higher dose of the statin.
The optimistic case for Zetia is that adding it to a low dose of a statin will lower cholesterol as much as a high dose of the statin, but without the muscle-weakening side effects.
In a series of papers in the Lancet, the team, led by Professor Peter Rothwell found that a daily low dose of the cheap drug cut the risk of a range of cancers, and could even treat the disease.
An initial glance of the three papers would seem to tip the balance in favour of healthy middle-aged people popping a daily low dose (75mg) of aspirin.
The effects of aspirin were independent of age, and sex, and were also seen with a low-dose, slow-release formulation of aspirin designed to inhibit platelets but to have little systemic bioavailability.
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The goal is to keep you on as low a dose as possible without triggering a relapse in your symptoms.
Since the late 1960s, aspirin makers have been trying to win the right to tell the public that a daily low-dose tablet can help prevent heart disease.
Forest says clinical trials involving 1, 100 patients show that a low, 10-milligram dose of Lexapro is as effective at relieving depression as a 40-mg dose of Celexa.
Sue Croft, director of the independent group Consumers for Health Choice, said the measures would benefit multinational companies that trade in a limited range of low dose supplements.
The developing fetus and infant has demonstrated a predisposition to cancer from various types of low-dose radiation exposure within a decade.
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To pull out the most relevant number from that: the decline in distance walked among patients treated with a high dose of the drug was about a tenth as much as for those who were on the low dose.
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In the circadian-gene mutants, however, the enzyme's activity stays steady after a dose of the drug, so tyramine levels remain low.
Daily low-dose aspirin reduced cancer incidence by around a quarter from 3 years and onwards, with similar reductions in men (23%) and women (25%).
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Such a physician might be able to guide the parents of colicky babies through a difficult time that is (mercifully) usually transient, and could also help patients requiring hormone replacement therapy (whether for low thyroid hormone levels or low testosterone levels) decide what replacement dose makes sense, and reach a conclusion that would be informed by numeric criteria but not exclusively defined by it.
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