There can be serious consequences if the wrong amount or composition of IV fluids is prescribed.
In other words, genetic analysis could help to ensure that the right treatment is prescribed.
They acknowledge that for most patients there is "insufficient evidence" to change how aspirin is prescribed.
Chemotherapy is prescribed with no guarantee of effectiveness and can cause wretched, and sometimes fatal, side effects.
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So our focus obviously continues to be on ensuring that that money gets out as quickly as it is prescribed.
Even though the rate at which it is prescribed in Britain has risen, it is still far lower than in America.
Pfizer's (nyse: PFE - news - people ) Lipitor rules the cholesterol market and is prescribed more than all other similar drugs combined.
If we encourage them to find one reliable source of information about what affordable alternatives are available, there is a better chance they will take what is prescribed for them.
She added that the drug also is prescribed to some human patients who suffer from severe arthritis and although as a medicine it can incur serious side effects, those are rare.
The UCI followed Contador's statement with its own, confirming that the rider had been "formally and provisionally suspended as is prescribed by the World Anti-Doping Code" after both his A and B urine samples tested positive in a laboratory in Cologne, Germany.
Lipitor, of course, is prescribed to prevent heart attacks, and Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) placed the billboards on the highway from the New Orleans airport to the city's convention center more than three months ago to greet doctors attending a cardiology meeting.
Dr Baigent said surveys in the UK have shown that aspirin is prescribed to less than a quarter of people with diseases such as peripheral arterial disease - a condition which causes fatty deposits to build up in the arteries of the leg, and which commonly leads to heart attacks or strokes.
"However, the Scottish government is clear that prescribed drug treatment is not, and cannot be, the only treatment option available on the pathway to recovery, " she added.
It is also prescribed to some patients who are suffering from a severe form of arthritis.
Similarly, a literacy hour is being prescribed by a taskforce on the teaching of reading and writing.
Tamiflu is one which is widely prescribed by many physicians and has efficacy against Influenza A and B.
Luvox is generally prescribed to patients whose obsessions or compulsions cause them distress, consume time, or interfere with their daily activities.
They were also high in those taking aspirin which, counterintuitively, is often prescribed to reduce clot formation and thus prevent heart attacks.
Although Vioxx is being prescribed less often in the U.S., sales of Vioxx and a related drug, Arcoxia, are growing overseas, especially in Europe.
But aspirin is also prescribed as a primary prevention technique - for those without cardiovascular disease but who may be considered at risk of these conditions.
Usually metformin, a basic diabetes medication, is also prescribed.
While neither is in any way part of the Lisbon treaty, their eventual inclusion is not so outrageous an idea, for the morality of Brussels is often prescribed upon all the E.
Mr Justice Weir told Cavan that as he had pleaded guilty to murder, "there is only one sentence prescribed by law for that and that is the sentence of life imprisonment".
To simplify matters greatly, soft dollaring is a legally prescribed exception to this rule.
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More so than with any other condition, taking HIV medicine as prescribed is crucial for therapy to continue to be effective.
Provigil is also being prescribed for such diseases as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease, and for the fatigue associated with hepatitis C.
Vytorin combines Zocor, a generic that is the most prescribed cholesterol-lowering drug in America, with a newer medicine called Zetia that works differently from other cholesterol drugs.
Juvisync is a convenience combination and should only be prescribed when it is appropriate for a patient to be placed on both of these drugs.
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