There are better, more migraine-specific drugs available without the addictive risk of narcotics.
During the five years, some men were given specific drugs for heart disease, such as ACE inhibitors including ramipril, telmisartan or a combination.
Some experts even argue that genotype-specific drugs might be dangerous.
For Gilead to keep growing between now and then, several analysts are betting that it will make an acquisition--either of a whole company or of specific drugs in development from other companies.
American Psychiatric Association President Dr. Rodrigo Munoz said there is no specific link between these drugs and violent behavior.
By creating a massive database tracking millions of patients, Soon-Shiong hopes to streamline treatments to match up drugs with specific ailments.
But he said the FDA does not have the legal authority to force companies to study their drugs in specific types of patients.
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While most cancer drugs work by targeting mechanisms common to all cancers, such as cell division, PM drugs hit specific genetic mutations driving the cancer's spread.
Drug resistance and disease progression have been observed all for anticancer drugs that target specific genetic alterations.
They are part of a new breed of drugs that hit specific molecular components of the immune system.
Its research programme is equally concentrated on new, specialised applications for its existing drugs, or specific uses for new proteins, such as Crohn's disease.
Both sides attribute new drugs to a specific country of origin (based on the location of the headquarters of the firm that first launches them).
The new drugs target very specific subsets of patients with the disease and will come with gene tests to pluck out which patients are likely to respond.
People at high risk will be treated with drugs targeted to their specific molecular abnormalities.
Instead, he says, researchers will perform tests to determine which mutations drive a tumor's growth and then give drugs that hit those specific mutations.
Sir David expects that the company will put its first drug, one of a new type of gene-based drugs designed to combat specific cancer tumours, to clinical trial later this year.
"This naturally-occurring cholesterol offers a very specific target for the design of safer drugs that could treat stomach ulcers and, long-term, prevent stomach cancer linked with H.pylori, " said Dr Minoru Fukuda, who led the study.
Some had hoped that Merck would use the proceeds from a Medco spinoff to purchase new drugs, either buying entire companies or specific compounds.
There is evidence that anti-psychotic drugs have some modest benefits for some specific behavioural symptoms over short periods (6-12 weeks), particularly aggression and to a lesser extent psychosis.
By stringing together thousands of these so-called droplets (which measure about 50 microns across) using a custom-built 3D printer, the Oxford team believes it has engineered a "new type of material" that could eventually be used to ferry drugs throughout our internal systems to a specific target site, fill-in for damaged tissues or even mimic neural pathways via specially printed protein pores.
Because existing antibiotics target specific bacterial molecules, a mutation in the bacterium can render the drugs ineffective.
These drugs were tested in small patient populations who have a specific genetic defect that the new drug was designed to repair.
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The specific cause here was a change in exchange rates, making UK drugs cheaper than those in the eurozone, but the effects are very much the same from the rise in arbitrage as we get from arbitrage in general.
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And although 87% of inmates have been involved with drugs, either as users or dealers, there are no specific detox or rehabilitation facilities.
Instead, we need to identify the genetic markers that can be linked to drugs that have been known to respond to patients with those specific genetics.
It is important to realize that the grapefruit interaction is specific to only certain medications within a drug class and not the entire class of drugs.
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But that point, although true, does not quite capture the more specific concerns that apply to most professions and industries, including firms that specialize in drugs and medical devices.
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This is the much-hyped idea that, with soon-to-be-affordable genetic testing, we will enter a magical world in which your doctor can prescribe exactly the right drugs for you, at exactly the right doses, tailored for your specific genetic make-up.
Both of these drugs are emblematic of avant-garde, precise, individualized medicine in which a specific genetic mutation in a patient is matched up with the action of the drug.
In addition, and more specific to the sector, any bull market for the sector will come to an end if or when high profile drugs start to fail Phase III clinical trials or the Food and Drug Administration turns down a high profile drug that everyone was certain would be approved.
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