In Thailand, only hospitals are allowed to research and produce new herbal medicines, and while Western drugs can be approved in months, traditional remedies that make use of any modern processing or ingredients may take a decade or more to be cleared.
Merck and Schering split the profits from the medicines equally, and the drugs have been growth engines, with sales up 25% in the most recent quarter over the same period last year.
But rheumatoid arthritis patients are soon likely to be receiving cocktails of medicines, including painkillers and drugs meant to slow inflammation.
Worries are emerging about the safety of new diabetes medicines Januvia and Galvus, drugs expected to be big sellers for makers Merck and Novartis.
In one tantalizing moment, Andrew Dannenberg , a cancer prevention guru from Cornell University, said that a trial he was working on using older anti-inflammatory drugs had found these medicines--drugs like ibuprofen and naproxen--had prevented cancer but caused heart attacks.
Everyone wants the best access to the best care for the most health issues they can get, and everyone is aware of how great our mixed-market success has been in producing incredible medicines, drugs, procedures, and treatments.
More importantly, Novartis will provide updates on its currently marketed and experimental drugs, including new medicines for cancer, hypertension and macular degeneration.
The range of drugs and medicines nurses can prescribe is also set to be extended.
The charges were later dropped but she admitted stealing drugs and medicines from the hospital.
But doctors were able to treat her with a cocktail of tb medicines, antibiotics and generic AIDS drugs.
But rheumatoid arthritis patients are likely to receive cocktails of medicines, including painkillers and other drugs meant to slow inflammation.
These companies are nimble cost-cutters, but making sales grow will be increasingly difficult as old medicines face increased competition and new drugs are few and far between.
These factors include new medicines and cheaper versions of existing drugs becoming available, Scotland's ageing population, and lifestyle issues such as obesity, smoking and alcohol misuse and associated illnesses.
Patient advocacy burst onto the national scene in the late 1980s when protesters demanded and got faster approval of hiv drugs, earlier access to experimental medicines and more government research money.
The biggest controversy is whether Pfizer will spin off its established products unit, which sells generic drugs and branded medicines like Norvasc and Zoloft that have lost patent protection.
The analysis, published online this month by the journal Health Affairs, appears to refute critics who have charged the Food and Drug Administration is less efficient than the European Medicines Agency and has been slower to approve new cancer drugs.
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We have contracts with TB Alliance, MMV (Medicines for Malaria Venture) and DnDi (Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative).
Provide doctors with an up-to-date list of all prescription medicines, over-the-counter drugs and dietary supplements the patient is taking.
We have done a good job of cracking down on off-label use of many medicines, and on limiting the overselling of new drugs.
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Authorities should reconsider whether herbal medicines, as conventional drugs, need regulation and should be tested for safety, tolerability and efficacy for the benefit of our patients.
It also highlights the promise of a class of experimental medicines, designed as successors to Actos and other drugs like it, that aim to correct cholesterol and triglyceride levels as well.
It will also make it harder to get new heart drugs approved and to market medicines that are already for sale but are not backed by big studies confirming their benefits.
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Personalized medicine can deliver better information to help patients make an individual choice about the risks and rewards of a particular course of treatment: which medicines will work for him or her, which drugs may pose a danger and whether doses may need to be adjusted.
Make a complete list of what you're taking, including nonprescription drugs, supplements, and herbal medicines.
They pay for the invention of new drugs and for clinical trials of medicines making their way to the market.
Avorn wrote a book about drugs and health care called Powerful Medicines.
But the big trials that proved the worth of those drugs came after the medicines were cleared and marketed, and there was a huge amount of data supporting doing big tests to prove the medicines extended lives.
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Those boosts offset competition from generic drugs hurting sales of Lipitor and other medicines.
The Hong Kong company aims to strike gold by expanding the global appeal of traditional Chinese medicines and by using modern drug development methods to unearth new drugs within Chinese medicinal herbs.
In its labs is the industry's biggest batch of experimental cancer drugs, 18 potential medicines targeting pancreatic, breast and lung cancers.
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