News tagged with combination therapy
Super-mini vehicles carry therapeutics and imaging agents into body with mega results
Measured in billionths of a meter, self-assembling nano-sized devices designed to carry drugs and imaging agents into the body are revolutionizing medicine by improving drug solubility and bio-distribution, providing a platform ...
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Jun 07, 2011 |
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A safer treatment could be realized for millions suffering from parasite infection
A safer and more effective treatment for 10 million people in developing countries who suffer from infections caused by trypanosome parasites could become a reality thanks to new research from Queen Mary, University of London ...
Apr 15, 2011 |
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Combination ACE inhibitor therapy increases risk of kidney failure and death
Elderly patients prescribed combination angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) had a higher risk of kidney failure and death, according to a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical A ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 21, 2011 |
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Rituximab combined with a TNF inhibitor and methotrexate shows no safety signal in RA treatment
A recent trial of rituximab in combination with a tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitor and methotrexate (MTX) in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) found the safety profile to be consistent with other RA trials ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Radiation helps cure Hodgkin’s lymphoma, but future cancer risk a concern
Modern treatment for early stage Hodgkin's lymphoma is highly effective, leaving most patients with no evidence of cancer. However, experts differ on the best approach: Is chemotherapy enough or does adding radiation therapy ...
Feb 16, 2011 |
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WHO claims gains in global fight against malaria
(AP) -- A massive malaria control program since 2008 has helped reduce infections across Africa and eradicate the disease in Morocco and Turkmenistan, but a slowdown in funding risks undoing those achievements, the World ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 14, 2010 |
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Survival over single-line treatment improved with use of combo drug cancer therapy
A combination therapy for treating cancer discovered at the University of Colorado Cancer Center showed improved survival rates in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to results from a double-blind, ...
Dec 14, 2010 |
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Researchers target HIV-related brain difficulties
(PhysOrg.com) -- During the last two decades, scientists and doctors have developed a potent mix of medications that nearly stops HIV in its tracks for most patients. This combination antiretroviral therapy, or cART, can ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 07, 2010 |
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New antibody-combination therapy boosts human lymphoma cure rate in mouse models
(PhysOrg.com) -- More than half of laboratory mice with human non-Hodgkin's lymphoma are cured by a treatment involving just two monoclonal antibodies, according to a new study.
Sep 02, 2010 |
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Estrogen not associated with lung cancer incidence and mortality among postmenopausal women
Use of estrogen alone did not increase lung cancer mortality in postmenopausal women, according to a study published online August 13 in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Aug 13, 2010 |
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New recommendations issued for use of cetuximab in colon cancer therapy
In a report published in the July 2010 issue of the American Society for Clinical Oncology Post, new recommendations on the use of the drug cetuximab have been issued after officials halted enrollment in a phase III clinic ...
Jul 16, 2010 |
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FDA to review first of 3 new weight loss drugs
(AP) -- Dieters, doctors and investors get their first extensive look at the first of a trio of new weight loss drugs this week. The hope is that the new drugs can succeed where many others have failed: delivering significant ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jul 12, 2010 |
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Drug resistance danger for sleeping sickness treatments
(PhysOrg.com) -- Drugs used to treat the epidemic disease African sleeping sickness must be used prudently to prevent the parasite acquiring resistance to current medicines, a new study at the University of Dundee has shown.
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Jul 05, 2010 |
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Researchers discover new way to 'rescue' treatment sensitivity of breast cancer cells
A study by researchers from the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) identifies a potential new combination therapy to "rescue" treatment sensitivity to fulvestrant ...
May 10, 2010 |
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First trial of pemetrexed with radiation and chemo in lung cancer shows promising results
The first trial of an important new combination therapy of treatment with the chemotherapy drug pemetrexed concurrent with radiation in lung cancer has delivered promising results, French researchers report at the 2nd European ...
Apr 30, 2010 |
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Combination therapy
In contemporary usage, the expression combination therapy most often refers to the simultaneous administration of two or more medications to treat a single disease, but the expression is also used when other types of therapy are used at the same time.
Conditions treated with combination therapy include tuberculosis, leprosy, cancer, malaria, and HIV/AIDS.
Combination therapy may seem costlier than monotherapy in the short term but causes significant savings: lower treatment failure rate, lower case-fatality ratios, slower development of resistance and consequently, less money needed for the development of new drugs.
For more information about Combination therapy, read the full article at
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