In AIDS, the drugs can keep people alive for many years, but they are never cured.
Both the drugs and polymers on the stents may be causing the problems, she says.
The FDA says the drugs clearly shorten survival and speed the progression of cancer.
The question is whether the government should pay for some of the drugs that patients want.
Most people are treated with steroids, but the drugs do not work for all.
She says it's implausible that the drugs would have no fracture effect on women with osteopenia.
In medicine's early days all the drugs used were extracted from plants or herbs.
Glaxo hopes the drugs will lead to myriad new treatments for diabetes, cancer and other diseases.
They say they are unable to replicate key laboratory experiments backing the drugs' promise.
Maybe the drugs could be approved for those whose cholesterol is still high on existing drugs.
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This would involve slipping a few radioactive carbon atoms into molecules of the drugs in question.
Marjorie Wallace at SANE said the drugs should be available to every patient who needs them.
In addition, seven had difficulty swallowing the drugs, four vomited and three developed extreme gasping.
They stressed that the drugs may not necessarily have caused the patients to fall asleep.
The drugs do not compete, because they are used for different forms of the disease.
Problems arise when they fail to tell their GP that they have stopped taking the drugs.
At the time, the marketing of the drugs was split between Schering-Plough and Merck.
Already, researchers, have announced, it is clear that none of the drugs truly did that well.
But there is a real chance the drugs in this class simply won't work.
Both studies, funded by the manufacturers, found the drugs to be effective in those populations.
All of the drugs work by affecting estrogen, which can help some breast tumors grow.
To David McAvoy, Lilly's U.S. director of regulatory policy, the drugs represented a familiar problem.
Side effects were manageable, but the drugs worked only in a similarly small percentage of patients.
But now Schering says it is adding two new allergic side effects to the drugs label.
The idea that the drugs might have such side effects in rare cases was not new.
So the patients have to leave their beds and queue for the drugs from 3am.
So far the drugs have shown early promise against tumors of the breast, lung and skin.
Right now, we depend entirely on companies to test the drugs they sell us.
Studies with the drugs, generally used for treating arthritis pain, for colon indications are ongoing.
Even when no stigma attaches to the drugs involved, most clinical trials end in failure.
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