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Oral Triple-Drug Therapy.
Oral triple-drug therapy is an effective and underutilized strategy in type 2 diabetes, Dr. Diana Dills said at a meeting of the Colorado chapter of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine.
Here's what triple-drug therapy with metformin, a sulfonylurea, and a glitazone accomplishes, as demonstrated in a 200-patient trial in which patients on metformin and a sulfonylurea were randomized to troglitazone or placebo. After 24 weeks, the mean fasting blood glucose in the triple-drug therapy group was 43 mg/dL lower, and hemoglobin [A.sub.1c] (Hb[A.sub.1c]) was 1.3% lower than in patients on two drugs plus placebo, observed Dr. Dills, a diabetologist at the University of Colorado, Denver.
Troglitazone (Rezulin) is now off the market due to safety issues, and there are no data on triple-drug therapy using the glitazones that are now available: rosiglitazone and pioglitazone. The ...
- AVEO Pharmaceuticals' Oral, Triple VEGF Receptor Inhibitor AV-951 Shows Robust...
- Newspaper article from: Angiogenesis Weekly March 13, 2009 700+ words
...oncology therapies, announced positive interim results from a 272-patient Phase 2 clinical trial of AV-951, a novel, oral, triple VEGF receptor inhibitor, in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC). As assessed by independent radiological...
- AVEO Pharmaceuticals' oral, triple VEGF receptor inhibitor AV-951 shows robust...
- News wire article from: Chemical Business Newsbase February 25, 2009 700+ words
...Pharmaceuticals Inc (AVEO) announced positive interim results from a 272-patient Phase II clinical trial of AV-951, a novel, oral, triple VEGF receptor inhibitor, in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC). As assessed by independent radiological...
- MedImpact Earns URAC Drug Therapy Management Accreditation from National Leader...
- Press release article from: Business Wire August 6, 2008 700+ words
...been recognized for its excellence in drug therapy management by achieving the esteemed URAC Drug Therapy Management Accreditation. URAC is a...Management Accreditation in March 2008. Drug therapy management is an expanding, ever more...
- Ensuring and documenting the quality of drug therapy in the elderly....
- Newspaper article from: Generations Tobias, Dianne E. June 22, 1994 700+ words
Drug therapy is often the preferred, sometimes the...outcome in an elderly patient. That drug therapy can be beneficial in the elderly is...The elderly are fragile recipients of drug therapy: They are more likely than their younger...
- Pharmaceutical Care Network Finds High Levels of Harmful Drug Therapy.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 2, 2002 700+ words
...of more than two potentially harmful drug therapy interactions per patient. Using its...potential improvement in patients' drug therapy regimens including reducing the risk...This is where a patient can run into drug therapy problems and without the proper ongoing...
- Study: Drug therapy alone effective in treating heart disease.
- News wire article from: Kansas City Star (Kansas City, MO) March 27, 2007 700+ words
...that angioplasties and stents combined with drug therapy were no more effective than drug therapy alone in saving lives or preventing heart...randomly assigned to undergo angioplasty and drug therapy or drug therapy alone. Buffalo, N.Y...
- Ablation better than drug therapy in AF.(treatment of paroxysmal atrial...
- Magazine article from: GP June 10, 2005 700+ words
...than those treated with conventional drug therapy. The study included 70 patients whose...assigned either to be treated with drug therapy or to undergo PVI with radio-frequency ablation. Drug therapy included oral flecainide twice daily...
- The therapeutic arsenal. (danger of drug therapy)
- Magazine article from: Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management Grassi, Lucia C. October 1, 1988 700+ words
...medical concern. Though it is an accepted truth that drug therapy provides a helpful, cost-effective approach...rashes, and many other adverse reactions from drug therapy Drug therapy continues to remain complicated, potentially dangerous...
- Drug therapy essential in treating lupus.
- Newspaper article from: Jakarta Post June 26, 2001 700+ words
...has recovered but continues to need drug therapy. A hematologist consultant with Cipto...annually. He said patients needed to drug therapy under the supervision of a team of specialists...their daily activities. "Continuous drug therapy is needed to control the problems...
- Payment for drug therapy. (health care technology)
- Magazine article from: Physician Executive McGivney, William T. January 1, 1990 700+ words
Payment for Drug Therapy This regular column of Physician...the growing cost and complexity of drug therapy has made even this technology the...health care services on payment for drug therapy. The 1980s have witnessed a move...
Source: HighBeam Research, Oral Triple-Drug Therapy.