Instead of sweets or money, children begged for quinine, a medicine used to treat malaria.
By contrast, vancomycin is given twice a day, and Cubicin, a medicine marketed by Lexington, Mass.
Researchers are working on an AIDS vaccine, but such a medicine is still years away.
But several worried about a potential hazard for a medicine widely used in very sick patients.
You go to the gym, it had some old rusty weights, a medicine ball.
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If a medicine kills anthrax in bunnies, it is likely to kill it in people as well.
Products, which include AIDS drugs and a medicine to treat bird flu, are sold in 140 countries.
It may be better to combine a medicine with therapy sessions weeks or months after a trauma.
Approval from the Food and Drug Administration is not the only determinant of how doctors prescribe a medicine.
Aspirin and Quinine come from trees, and digitalis, a medicine used in heart failure is extracted from the Foxglove.
For instance, Wyeth is developing a medicine that would treat muscular dystrophy, but might also help athletes bulk up.
Sure, some side effects will make a medicine too dangerous to keep around.
In one campaign, French doctors used six syringes to inject 80, 000 African workers with a medicine for sleeping sickness.
Another candidate is torcetrapib, a medicine being developed by Pfizer that will be available only as a combination pill.
It is analogous to equating the amount of a medicine ingested with potential harmful effects without considering its toxicity.
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Approval also would be a triumph for Adams--the second time he has invented a medicine and steered it through development.
Without adequately testing the drugs, doctors don't even know if they are giving children an ideal dose of a medicine.
And, despite the tone of much of the coverage, this is not a medicine only taken by a few people.
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There's a small passage in one chapter that speaks of a Medicine King, one with great spiritual and moral wisdom.
Right now society has no real mechanism for figuring out what the risks and benefits of such a medicine are.
But a medicine for Crohn's disease and two lung cancer drugs, developed separately with Eli Lilly and Novartis, flamed out.
That's the benefit most patients get from believing a medicine works and from having doctors and nurses caring for them.
Less than a week later, Vioxx, a medicine that had been taken by 20 million Americans, was pulled from the market.
First, a new section called Highlights will provide immediate access to the most important information about a medicine's benefits and risk.
Merck and Schering already sell a medicine, Vytorin, that combines Zetia with Merck's off-patent cholesterol medicine Zocor, once Lipitor's main rival.
The danger is that austerity will prove too strong a medicine for an economy struggling to bring down its private debts.
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Barnes was born poor in Philadelphia in 1872, became a doctor, and made a fortune by trademarking a medicine that treated gonorrhea.
Pfizer is farthest along with a medicine that could raise good cholesterol.
She was prescribed an oral insulin medication -- a medicine that is no longer given to adolescents due to harmful side effects.
When your private insurance company does not cover a procedure, a medicine, or denies care because of a pre-existing condition, that is rationing.
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