No current treatment can cure viral hemorrhagic fevers, and immunizations exist for only a few types.
The price for the projected drugs hasn't been set, but could be higher than the current treatment.
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The main current treatment for the disease is drugs but their success is limited and the side effects can be significant.
The current treatment for hepatitis C combines interferon drugs sold by Roche and Merck with an antiviral medicine called ribavirin in an 11-month course.
European studies unveiled at the American College of Cardiology meeting indicate that Exanta works at least as well as the current treatment, Coumadin, for preventing stroke.
Witt says in the past few months, she knows six children who've died because the current treatment, which is working for her son, didn't work for them.
Those drugs aim to improve on current treatment regimens based on the immune protein alpha interferon--which often don't work and have an array of nasty side effects.
In tackling tuberous sclerosis, the hereditary condition in which benign tumors grow in the skin, kidneys or brain, Novartis hopes a pill can improve on current treatment, which includes the surgical removal of tumors.
Scott Grundy, a cardiologist at the University of Texas Southwestern who helped write the U.S. cholesterol guidelines, argued that overall the results of the study do show that Tricor was a useful addition on top of current treatment.
Once early costs drop, the researchers believe this version could undercut current wastewater treatment plants.
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The drug, palifosfamide, did not significantly reduce the time it took for tumors to grow or get worse compared to the current standard treatment.
The current standard treatment cures between 66% and 79% of patients with the most common type of hepatitis C, known as genotype 1, and who are undergoing the drug therapy for the first time, according to clinical data cited by the Food and Drug Administration.
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My patients are my number one priority, and when I am looking to treat a diagnosis I try to look at all the data at hand and extrapolate the best treatment instead of solely adhering to what the current 'standard' of treatment may be.
The current gold standard of treatment is Schering-Plough's Rebetron, on the market for three years.
Current muscular-dystrophy treatment includes steroids, which can help maintain muscle strength somewhat longer, but often include side effects such as weight gain.
Eloxatin was rejected by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in March 2000, because data submitted at the time failed to statistically prove that the new drug was better than the current first-line treatment, Pharmacia 's (nyse: PHA - news - people ) Camptosar.
Shortening treatment time from the current minimum of six to two months would keep an additional one million people on TB treatment each year, reducing deaths and slowing the development of drug resistance.
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But the drug could be as important as the company's current bestseller, the arthritis treatment Celebrex.
This approach would yield all the benefits of the current diagnosis-and-treatment approach without its many inadequacies and dangers.
This impact would be amplified if lawmakers fail to maintain the current parity between the tax treatment of capital gains and dividend income.
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Leading his party's debate, Mr Isherwood raised concerns over the current NHS provision for the treatment of dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Wales.
Assets held outside of retirement plans enjoy capital gains tax treatment (under current law) that is generally much more favorable than the ordinary income tax rate.
The president, who said the virus is a "cause for concern but not alarm, " added the government has anti-viral treatment to treat the current strain of H1N1.
In some places, current technology for small, compact wastewater treatment plants has improved, offering advantages over larger, centralized systems.
Such preferential treatment is only possible because current interest rates are so low and debt service represents only about 10% of total revenue.
The current recommendation of 3 months of warfarin treatment after bioprosthetic AVR surgery is primarily based on results from 1 retrospective study with a limited number of events.
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Consequently, our study challenges current guidelines on the duration of antithrombotic treatment after AVR surgery with biological valves by presenting results suggesting that these patients will gain from an additional 3 months of warfarin treatment in terms of reduced cardiovascular death without risking a significant increase in bleeding events.
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During a job interview -- a couple of years after she started her treatment -- she met her current partner.
The full extent of his injury was revealed after he flew home for treatment from the team's current tour of Zimbabwe.
"We were delighted to find that patients who get the current state-of-the-art treatment with platelet blockers, medical treatment and stents during procedures had a significant improvement in their outcome, " said Dr. Christopher Cannon, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and a principal investigator for a number of heart-related studies at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
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