The difficulty of running trials for non-drug procedures is inherent in the nature of the trials themselves.
More drugs are in clinical trials, and non-drug treatments such as acupuncture, massage, biofeedback and transcranial-magnetic stimulation are also showing some promise at alleviating migraine pain.
This fall, the Consumer Consortium for Advancing Person Centered Care and the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affiairs, with the support of the U.S. Senate Committee on Aging, will hold a forum on non-drug interventions for people with dementia.
As you mention, we are just one part of the solution, and together with other non-profit drug developers, global health non-profits, donors, and pharmaceutical partners, we can work to balance the health inequities between those living in the developed and developing worlds.
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Another non-amyloid drug showing intriguing results is Dimebon from Medivation (nasdaq: MDVN - news - people ).
Another non-amyloid drug showing intriguing results is Dimebon from Medivation.
They imposed long sentences for non-violent drug crimes and they denied judges the power to consider extenuating circumstances, or indeed anything other than the convict's criminal history and the amount of drugs, when sentencing.
Voltaren, manufactured by Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people), is an older, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug.
If Uruguay does approve the controlled legal sale of cannabis, that will put it in breach of the UN's drug-control conventions, which prohibit drug sales for non-medical use.
It is not illegal for a doctor to prescribe a drug off-label, that is, for a non-FDA-approved use, but a drug marketer cannot lawfully encourage a doctor to do so.
Patients may not want to hear that their genes make a seeming wonder drug non-cost- effective in their case.
"There are actually... close to 17 or 18 initiatives working their way to the ballots, " according to Sue Rusche, president and CEO of the non-profit anti-drug organization, National Families in Action.
Vanda Pharmaceuticals said yesterday it is testing its melatonin-stimulating drug tasilmelteon in something called Non-24-Hour Sleep Wake Disorder.
Scott Woolley Cancer treatment Three years ago we wrote about Rituxan, a promising experimental drug for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Diclofenac is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug whose veterinary use on livestock in South Asia has grown rapidly in recent years.
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The federal Drug Enforcement Agency keeps an eye on things too, and reports very little abuse of the drug by non-Indians.
The program, mostly used for young, non-violent offenders involved in drug related crimes, resulted in returning a more disciplined inmate to society within a shortened period of time (inmates received additional time off for completing the program).
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One of the four drugs used on this horse was a common form phenylbutazone that you probably recognize as as a Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug used for pain management in horses as ubiquitously used only through veterinarian controlled pharmaceutical sale to horse owner or trainer.
Bayer and biotech Onyx Pharmaceuticals announced a devastatingly disappointing result for their cancer pill Nexavar: They stopped a study of the drug in non-small cell lung cancer early because there was no chance it would reach its main goal of proving Nexavar extends patients' lives in that disease.
This morning, the Food and Drug Administration announced that it had approved the AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ) drug for treating advanced cases of non-small-cell lung cancer, which is the most common form of lung cancer in the United States.
One of the perils of non-compliance is the development of drug-resistant strains of HIV.
Dr Sakiz plans to set up a non-profit company to oversee the drug's manufacture and marketing outside the United States.
Ministers say all non-EU prisoners convicted of serious drug or gun crimes are now considered for deportation, irrespective of the length of their sentence.
Technology in law enforcement has come a long way, from in-field drug testing kits to the use of various forms of non-lethal force.
Louisiana's legislators recently approved a bill to cut prison sentences for some drug offences and other non-violent crimes.
Longs Drug Stores is a non-food stock that Wolf finds attractive.
The drug did seem to help non-small-cell lung cancer patients live slightly longer compared with a control group.
In Britain, there is a well-worn path between drug giants such as SmithKline Beecham and Glaxo Wellcome, and executive and non-executive slots on biotech boards.
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