The more effectively we can treat a disease, the less important it is to find it early.
For any drug, be it a new medicine to treat diabetes in millions of patients, or a drug to treat a rare disease afflicting only a few thousand people around the world, intense discussions and analyses are carried out to determine how best to price such a drug.
The drug was approved in 1998 to treat a skin disease and has never received FDA clearance for myeloma.
If several drugs treat a particular disease, doctors will usually first prescribe the one most likely to work before moving on to others.
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In passing this legislation, Congress paved the way for herbal companies to peddle their products with little oversight as long as they do not claim they treat a specific disease.
Similarly, a drug developer could be awarded a transferable right of priority (rapid) FDA review for a new drug application as an incentive for developing a new product to treat a rare disease.
An illustration earlier this year was the delay in FDA approval of a biological used to treat Pompe disease--a debilitating inherited disorder--that was to be manufactured in a new, larger-scale manufacturing facility.
Pharming, a Dutch biotechnology firm, recently began clinical trials for alpha-glucosidase, a product designed to treat Pompe's disease, a metabolic disorder causing fatal degeneration of muscle.
One said that the agency would not approve Lumizyme, to treat a rare genetic disorder called Pompe disease, before a deadline of Feb. 28, as expected.
It might then be possible to treat cocaine addiction as a disease, rather than a criminal activity.
Over the past two years, for instance, he has published studies maintaining the Chantix anti-smoking pill is unsuitable for first-line use (read here and here) and a meta-analysis indicating the mist form of the Spiriva inhaler that is used to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease had a 52 percent increase in mortality risk compared with a placebo ( see this).
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On his doctor's advice he takes thrice-weekly injections of Actimmune, a medication that has been approved to treat such diseases as osteopetrosis, a bone disease affecting children.
This medicine is an impressive collection of firsts: not only is it the first drug approved to treat lupus, a potentially fatal disease in which the immune system attacks healthy tissues, it is also one of the first drugs to come out of genomics, the systematic evaluation of human genetics that was epitomized by the human genome project a decade ago.
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Aside from being a difficult disease to treat, scant data from its failed trail with the drug Rituxan leave investors with little guidance going forward.
McKay and his colleagues used embryonic stem cells to create a particular type of neuron that can be used to treat a model of Parkinson's disease in mice.
So most doctors are going to be reluctant to prescribe it without a disease or condition to treat.
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He next plans to use lab-made tissue and see if he can successfully treat a degenerative, blindness-causing eye disease in monkeys.
Drugs on the market now are considered of limited effectiveness and treat the symptoms of the disease for a limited period of time.
The narrow window of time to diagnose and successfully treat a patient makes the treatment instead of the prevention of meningococcal disease a dubious strategy.
That means its dentists often treat bone loss and gum disease and install a lot of false teeth.
Its lead drug candidate is Flurizan, a therapeutic drug to treat Alzheimer's disease.
These are just four of the side effects of interferon, a standard drug used to treat the liver disease hepatitis C.
It is hoped that Velcade may eventually be used to treat not only multiple myeloma, a relatively rare disease, but also far more common cancers, such as those of the lung or colon.
With the battle to free the Iraqi people nearing its final and perhaps most dangerous stages, it is increasingly clear that Washington must now treat the disease called Severe Acute Respiratory SyndromeSARSas a looming threat to Homeland security.
In Prometheus, Mayo is challenging a patent that was awarded to researchers in Canada who determined what they believed to be the safest way to administer a drug called thiopurine to treat inflammatory bowel disease and similar conditions.
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It is already on the market to treat rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease, a gastrointestinal disorder.
He is listed as an inventor on a patent application for using prasugrel to treat vascular disease.
Ironwood is also developing candidates to treat pain, inflammatory bowel disease and dyslipidemia, a type of elevated cholesterol in diabetic patients.
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