Prozac itself ranks 15th, having been replaced by more effective options with fewer side effects.
DPP-IV drugs are supposed to help patients control their diabetes with fewer side effects than older medicines.
She sees targeted therapy as the best way of starting to destroy tumors with fewer side effects.
The opportunity is likely to be primary-care doctors who will most want a sleeping pill with fewer side effects.
Hassan and his team are now plotting their counterattack, aiming to portray Celebrex as just as powerful but with fewer side effects.
John's Wort might be just as effective, and with fewer side effects.
The amyloid theory could still be correct, and Smith and Shen could be proved wrong with other anti-amyloid drugs with fewer side effects.
For those with chronic insomnia, just four to six sessions of CBT can work better than pills, with fewer side effects, multiple small studies suggest.
The company does have a promising pipeline, however, including Vardenafil, an anti-impotence drug with fewer side effects than Viagra, expected to go on sale next year.
Meanwhile, Roche, at a big cancer conference in Europe, released preliminary data indicating that the TDM1 drug seemed to be as efficacious as Herceptin plus chemotherapy, with fewer side effects.
Drug companies and researchers are trying to find new drugs to restore the brain's chemical balance -- ones that work more quickly and with fewer side effects than the ones available now.
Many biotech watchers expect the hepatitis C market to follow a similar trajectory as the HIV drug market, where breakthrough first-generation drugs were relatively quickly supplanted by more convenient second-generation versions with fewer side effects.
Eventually, such experiments might lead to better treatments for psychiatric problems, medications with fewer side effects, and more effective brain implants, like those currently used to help control symptoms in thousands of Parkinson's disease patients.
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Some doctors have been using Vytorin as a first-line therapy because it's so easy to give: The lowest dose of this combo pill lowers cholesterol better than higher doses of the other medicines, with fewer side effects.
"Understanding how our bodies prepare for fight or flight is just one of the applications of their work, which has also opened the door for a wide range of new, more effective drug treatments with fewer side effects, " Poliakoff added.
Pfizer has bombarded doctors with pamphlets claiming that Zoloft works just as well as Prozac for a broader range of symptoms, with fewer side-effects.
Survival rates have increased significantly over the past decades thanks to research, but there is still more to do to make treatments better with fewer side-effects.
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His results on thousands of women suggest that the technique is just as successful, but with far fewer side-effects.
Newer drugs, with advantages such as fewer side effects, were more complex and costly to make.
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It may have fewer side effects, and can be taken with or without food.
While red yeast rice has no known drug interactions and fewer side effects than statins, it could theoretically interfere with other medications and should be avoided by women who are pregnant or nursing and people with severe liver or kidney disease.
Integrated Medical treats far fewer patients with cheaper radiation seeds than with IMRT because seeds cause more side effects, Dr. Kapoor said.
Both drugs are used in combination with another compound, ribavirin, and there is no proof that Pegasys is more effective or has fewer side effects.
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