Ninety-two people had the drug injected into a vein, while another 93 were injected with salty water.
Every year, thousands of patients are harmed by accidents involving medical procedures - an example was the tragic case of Wayne Jowett, a teenager who died after having a powerful chemotherapy drug injected into his spine instead of a vein.
The bubbles could be loaded with the drug and injected into an artery leading into the trouble spot.
The drug is injected, and patients and doctors tend to like it because it's easier to inject than insulin and can promote weight loss in some people.
Yet Vitravene, a locally injected drug, fell short of proving antisense's broader promise, and it never took off because of competition from AIDS cocktails.
In a recent case, a patient lost an arm because a health assistant injected a drug into an artery.
By contrast, the Novo Nordisk drug Victoza must be injected daily.
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The company intends to use this drug, which gets injected into the vein, to repair heart damage in patients who have just experienced their first heart attack.
The alternative was to develop a protein-based drug, like Erbitux, but the drug would have to be injected.
Patients are injected with the drug, and then have a catheter carrying an optical fibre threaded into the vessel to be treated.
All ended up seriously ill, with multiple organ failure, soon after being injected with the drug at a special testing unit at Northwick Park Hospital in London, run by a company called Parexel.
Diouf says agents injected him with a drug, and then they were kicked off the plane.
Bydureon is an injectable, extended-release version of Amylin's older diabetes drug, Byetta, which is injected twice daily.
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The plaintiff alleged that a Wyeth drug, Phenergan, was improperly injected, with the result that Ms. Diana Levine lost an arm to gangrene.
If the drug is deemed suitable it is injected into the muscle while the patient is sedated or under local anaesthetic.
When injected in mice, the drug worked by increasing metabolism, not by suppressing appetite.
Doctors had injected her with an antinausea drug called Phenergan, made by Wyeth, which if used improperly can cause gangrene.
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They then injected the animals with a drug called amlexanox, which has been on the market for more than 15 years to treat canker sores.
Digging through the trash, the reporter said he found packaging for a drug called Actovegin, which, if injected, can cause the body to process oxygen more efficiently, improving performance.
It is racing with Novartis to produce the first oral therapy for MS. Ivax is also developing a new epilepsy drug and an oral version of the cancer drug Taxol, which must usually be injected.
The alternative was to develop a protein-based drug, like Erbitux, but then patients would have to be injected.
That drug has not only liver side effects, but also must be injected and can cause painful injection-site reactions.
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Next step: another final-stage trial with 600 more patients injected with antisense and Gemzar, Lilly's chemo drug for lung cancer.
The health board has pointed out that two Aberdeen drug users do not clearly match the other cases, since both patients had injected into their veins rather than into muscle.
The drug is a modified piece of HDL. Unlike similar drugs, which must be injected, it can be taken by mouth.
And Amgen's saving grace may be a new version of the drug that saved it: a new version of Epogen, called Aranesp, will need to be injected into patients less often.
One day Patton injected liquid growth hormone into a rat's lungs and was amazed at how well the drug was absorbed.
Sales of that drug actually fell in the fourth quarter as regulators cracked down on apparent problems with the way Eprex is injected in Europe.
However, the injected cells remained healthy in animals that were treated with the antibodies, and three months after drug treatment had ended these transplanted cells were even found to be replicating in some of the animals.
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