The next morning, after taking just two pills, Domeny stopped coughing for the first time in months.
Pfizer's SU11248 and Novartis' PTK-787 are both cancer pills that are just becoming visible now.
Or the needed dose may be high enough that it would require pills, not just the occasional glass of wine.
But even as large studies--the kind Nissen conducts--have shown that some medicines can reverse the buildup of plaque in the arteries or reduce the risk of a heart attack, other doctors steadfastly insist that getting the heart pumping is just as important as popping pills.
One condition of greater freedom would be to enforce transparency: athletes should disclose all the pills they take, just as they register the other forms of equipment they use, so that others can catch up.
Just the same, reimbursement for diet pills may be an uphill battle.
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Perhaps, he suggests, many of these people just don't want to pop impotence pills regularly.
There's also the chance that consumers, already up in arms about the high cost of drugs, will see the campaign as an expense that will just drive the price of their allergy and cholesterol pills all the higher.
Critics said that both Pfizer and Merck, caught in a marketing duel, had used television ads to target pricey new pills at patients who would have done just as well on older, cheaper medicines like ibuprofen or naproxen.
For those with chronic insomnia, just four to six sessions of CBT can work better than pills, with fewer side effects, multiple small studies suggest.
And just as I thought of black humor Lihn extracted a little bottle of pills from his pocket.
"Hopefully I'll just get in and get all the treatment I need and take whatever pills they have and get this thing calmed down in a day or two, " he said.
Doctors caution that no patient should just stop taking any cholesterol drug, because the life-saving benefits of the pills have been proven in large, well-designed studies.
When he asks how many pills they need, sometimes the answer is: "Forty or 50 should do just fine, " Grossman says.
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