People commonly have heart attacks and strokes anyway, no matter what drugs they're taking.
The documents allegedly are patient records that detail who had appointments and what drugs they received.
In both cases, California authorities wanted to know which doctors prescribed what drugs.
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Changes in what drugs the plans cover and how well they cover them.
One is that we made plans be clearer about what drugs are covered so seniors can make the right choices.
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But by keeping track of patients' genes, the genes in their tumors and what drugs they take, scientists will be able to discern patterns.
Because of Hinduja Hospital's reputation, patients flock there, often paying out of pocket for its tests to determine what drugs they might be resistant to.
In an effort to find out what drugs he had been given and what his health files contained, Coffman filed a Freedom of Information Act request.
Dr. Peter Martin, director of the Vanderbilt Addiction Center in Tennessee, said that the "brain on drugs" commercial gives teens a perfect picture of what drugs can do to their brains.
And once personalised medicines do become routine, new challenges will emerge, including how the health service will manage their provision and how data on what drugs work for which people, the report adds.
Who should decide what drugs to use?
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Along with the police investigation, which is being aided by the state attorney general's office and the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Los Angeles County coroner's office has also drawn up a list of Jackson's doctors and is trying to talk to them to determine what drugs they may have prescribed him.
But what about drugs that are 100% effective on 10% of the population, but 0% effective on 90%?
Dose selection should factor in what other drugs the patient is taking.
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The success rate for internally developed drugs in big trials was half what it was for drugs Glaxo acquired from the outside.
But what about expensive drugs for cancer and diabetes, ask developing countries?
It would also go to that person's electronic medical folder, where the computer works out what sort of drugs to subscribe based on medical history, other medications taken and so on.
Doctors believe what is needed are drugs that work differently from the currently approved treatments.
This highlights a tough dilemma in drug safety: what to do about drugs that help many but harm a few.
At the American Heart Association meeting Merck and other investigators are presenting the results of a very promising drug that may reduce heart risk above and beyond what is possible with drugs like Lipitor.
"The new statute to be presented to the Congress during this mandate intends to make this authorisation concrete, but broadening it to include synthetic drugs into what is defined as the personal dose", the minister told Colombia's National Radio.
We can do the basic research either way: we want the market as that is what gets the new drugs, the new treatments, the new spiffiness, into the hands of people who use it to do interesting and useful things.
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But he has also been a critic of what he sees as unsafe drugs.
What we need are oral drugs that can combat a wide range of different pandemic flu strains.
There have also been concerns regarding how Kerry would run the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and what the impact of importing drugs from Canada might be.
But an early-stage pipeline of cancer drugs could be what sold Astra on paying 53% more than MedImmune was worth before news of an impending sale leaked.
What about access to expensive drugs for the neediest populations?
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