And the livers could be used to test how multiple drugs interact with each other.
Putting kids on multiple drugs could put them at risk for drug interactions and side effects, they say.
Glaxo launched the first HIV drug that combined multiple drugs in one pill.
Children with cancer who have to follow long courses of treatment with multiple drugs are the worst hit by irregular supplies.
At times, children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia need multiple drugs, with even higher doses prescribed during periods of illness or severe stress, including surgery.
On September 6, 2012, GHSA announced its support of drugged driving per se laws and enhanced penalties for driving under the influence of multiple drugs.
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Cancer is a disease where patients are treated with multiple drugs.
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In addition to forgetfulness, they include unpleasant side effects from one or multiple drugs, a false sense of wellness, being ill-informed about consequences, cost, and inconvenience.
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Within a year Langer had invented a new plastic that used proteins to burrow holes big enough to release multiple drugs and cancer-fighting chemicals into the body.
Leprosy usually becomes a chronic disease, Krahenbuhl explains, but it can be cured if it is treated with multiple drugs in the early stages, when the disease has only caused skin lesions.
Additionally, GHSA is encouraging states to adopt an enhanced penalty for driving under the influence of multiple drugs, such as a combination of alcohol and another drug, or the combination of multiple drugs (other than alcohol).
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All makers of multiple sclerosis drugs have patient assistance programs to help pay for the drugs in cases where all or part of the cost is not covered by insurance.
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There are multiple sclerosis drugs from BiogenIdec.
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In a risky gambit to speed the development of breakthroughs, the South San Francisco biotech firm is planning to test combinations of multiple experimental cancer drugs simultaneously in new tumor types, instead of waiting for each one to be approved separately before combining them.
"We've got three great new drugs for multiple myeloma, " he says.
Shares of Questcor Pharmaceuticals (No. 7), which makes drugs for multiple sclerosis and kidney disease, were crushed in September after Aetna stopped reimbursing for most uses of its Acthargel and the feds launched an investigation into marketing practices.
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Researchers hope drugs that stimulate multiple PPARs at once could affect virtually every heart and diabetes risk factor.
Also, Biogen faces heavy competition with two of its big drugs: Avonex (multiple sclerosis) and Amevive (psoriasis).
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The new strategy for these drugs is to knock out multiple proteins at once to kill cancer cells.
Teva makes Copaxone, a treatment for multiple sclerosis that competes with the MS drugs made by Biogen Idec and Serono.
However, even if Velcade is approved for patients with multiple myeloma who have failed on other drugs, Millennium won't be out of the woods.
Teva makes Copaxone, a treatment for multiple sclerosis that competes with the MS drugs made by Biogen Idec (nasdaq: BIIB - news - people ) and Serono.
While laws vary from state to state, the monitoring programs are used to identify illegal activity such as prescription forgery, indiscriminate prescribing and doctor shopping, according to the DEA. Some programs notify physicians when their patients are seeing multiple prescribers for the same class of drugs.
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The hope is that slamming multiple defective genes at once with highly targeted drugs will increase the chance of long-lasting remissions or even cures.
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation is working with 30 drugs, up from none in 2000, and just recruited a cancer-drug executive from Bayer to help run its effort.
Historically, says Feinberg, heavily marketed new entrants help all the drugs in a category--and the multiple sclerosis market is still poorly penetrated.
Teva has also been carefully diversifying, including into developing proprietary drugs, such as its profitable new treatment for multiple sclerosis.
Schering AG, which operates under the name of Berlex Laboratories in the U.S., is a big player in birth-control pills, has blockbuster in the multiple sclerosis treatment Betaseron, and is developing some promising cancer drugs.
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