In an effort to recapture the glory years, they made over the roster with a dose of heavy spending this winter.
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Based on these rates of growth, Norton argued that giving the same total dose of chemotherapy over a shorter period of time would boost the cure rate by limiting the time tumors could regrow between treatments.
Controversy over whether the 80 mg Zocor dose caused more muscle problems that competitors is not new.
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Crafty, or sensible, we can say for sure that the change in policy represents a small easing in monetary policy, which will act much like another dose of quantitative easing over the coming months.
In the 4, 162-person PROVEIT study, Harvard cardiologists found that patients hospitalized for heart attacks or unstable angina who took a 80-milligram dose of Lipitor were 16% less likely to suffer heart attacks or other cardiovascular "events" over two years than those who took a lower dose of Bristol-Myers Squibb 's (nyse: BMY - news - people ) Pravachol.
University of Florida clinical pharmacists pointed out as early as 2006 that the dose of phenylephrine approved for over-the-counter use is ineffective.
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This study does not settle another question - whether daily low dose aspirin can help prevent cancer over the long term.
Specifically, lung functioning rose 9 percent and 7.5 percent in the two highest dose groups compared with a placebo over 28 days ( read more here).
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In a trial of 38, 546 people 60 and up, sponsored by the VA and Merck, a single dose reduced the incidence of shingles over the next three years by half and slashed severe cases of postshingles pain (usually lasting three months or more) by two-thirds, according to the results in the New England Journal of Medicine (June 2, 2005).
But once Sarah Palin got a dose of it, they were all over it.
Alas, such are the powerful entrenched interests in drugmaking that it will take something stronger than a dose of information to calm the current fever over pill-pricing.
There is no evidence that they have any benefits after a single dose, and the longer term benefits of treatment over periods of six-months or longer are minimal.
At present, while high-dose vitamins and minerals are readily available in the UK, over-the-counter sales are already outlawed in most EU countries, leading to a "black market" in vitamins with the UK as its source.
They might still be, though it is clearly worrying that investment banks, investors and (most frightening of all) newspapers the world over have bought the Japanese recovery story of late, albeit with a dose of scepticism.
The coroner's court heard they were put on to a ventilator and given a dose of morphine, which was standard practice, but there was confusion over the exact amount that should be administered.
Dr Winkler's group says that the dose suggested by averaging the 15 studies on the matter that have been conducted over the past two decades is 566mg a day.
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If you're looking for a product to help with more significant discomfort, over-the-counter pain relievers such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen given in the appropriate dose for a child's weight can take the edge off of teething pain.
Their exams are over, the sun is shining, and there are no lectures to interfere with a daily dose of Neighbours on the telly.
Certain groups of people, including those who have had strokes, are over 75 or weigh less than 60 kilograms, get no benefit from prasugrel at its current dose.
But new research is showing that immunotherapy, a method of giving a small dose of peanut to a patient in a controlled setting and then increasing the amount over a few months, may help temper these reactions.
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