But he says for years he couldn't get drug companies interested in pursuing the concept.
King is recommending that a third or more of patients who get drug-coated stents might do just as well with the older, bare metal variety.
Only 4% of advanced colon cancer patients now get the drug for initial treatment, and only 14% get the drug as their second treatment, he says.
While Michael Lohan was satisfied his daughter would get drug treatment in rehab -- not jail -- her father expressed anger outside the courthouse with her lawyer, Mark Heller.
Third, the FDA and other regulatory bodies are going to use all means possible to get drug companies to run outcome studies like HPS2-THRIVE to learn about compounds both old and new.
It helps explain why tumors shrink dramatically in a minority of patients who get the drug while most others get little benefit.
But he was unable to get any drug firms interested in conducting the necessary large-scale studies.
The company originally projected that 50, 000 people would get the drug over two years.
He declines to say which of those he'll use to get his drug to market.
But he was unable to get any drug companies interested in conducting the necessary large-scale studies.
The imaging studies are expected to be the ones needed to get the drug approved.
We're going to make them have to negotiate with Medicare to get those drug prices down.
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Patients might drop out of the ongoing clinical trial in order to get the drug, not placebo.
Victoria Creasy from the PHA said they wanted to get the drug out "all across Northern Ireland".
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These patients are not going to get this drug at the current dose.
The next step for the team is to get the drug licensed for large animal and eventual human testing.
Public Citizen has been petitioning to get the drug off the market since 2002 based on the potential for heart harm.
The MRIs can tell how much brain tissue can be saved, and those patients with irreversible damage don't get the drug.
Even if your doctor could get the drug directly into the bladder, you would naturally flush it out within a few hours.
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Zelnorm "is a loss, but we will overcome it, " says Vasella, who hopes to get the drug back on the market eventually.
"You need to get your drug approved first in something, " Warrell says.
Ms Clarke said she was upset that she was unable to get the drug from her health trust NHS North Yorkshire and York.
"We have the notion that if we can detoxify somebody, get somebody drug-free in seven or 28 days, that is sufficient, " said Rosenthal.
When a liver-transplant patient urgently needed immune globulin serum, customer reps drove six hours to get the drug from Paducah, Ky. to the hospital.
From the 2005 announcement of Cordaptive's existence on, Merck seems to have fatally misjudged what it needed to do to get the drug approved.
The companies have already started studies in thousands of people in order to get the drug approved, but those will take at least two years.
The results of a mid-stage clinical trial were recently reported, and Genzyme plans to continue looking for a partner that could get the drug approved.
The first of these, a set of imaging studies some analysts hope will be enough to get the drug approved, will be available next year.
Cephalon earlier this year tried to get its drug Nuvigil approved for treating jet lag, which would have made it the first drug for this use.
There were nine deaths from infection among patients taking torcetrapib in the 15, 000-patient trial, compared to zero among the patients who did not get the drug.
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