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New Study Shows A1c Reduced Safely By Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Using Self-Adjusted Dosing Starting With Once-Daily Insulin Treatment Levemir

...o reduce the riskof hypoglycemia in patients being switched to Levemir from otherintermediate or long-acting insulin preparations. The dose ofLevemir may need to be adjusted in patients with renal or hepaticimpairment. *Whether the observed differences in weight represent truedifferences in the effects of L...

Affymax Reports Phase 2 Clinical Dose Ranging Results of Once-Per-Month Hematide for the Treatment of Anemia

...patients previously treated with Epoetin alfa were switched toHematide once every four weeks. The mean baseline Hgb level, whichwas 11.5 g/dL at baseline, was maintained within +/- 1.0 g/dL atthe end of six months of treatment. Hematide was generally welltolerated and compatible with adverse events usually ob...

New Study Shows A1c Reduced Safely By Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Using Self-Adjusted Dosing Starting With Once-Daily Insulin Treatment Levemir

...o reduce the risk of hypoglycemia in patientsbeing switched to Levemir(R) from other intermediate or long-actinginsulin preparations. The dose of Levemir(R) may need to beadjusted in patients with renal or hepatic impairment. *Whether the observed differences in weight represent truedifferences in the effect...

First single breast cancer study to show significant survival benefit for women switching from tamoxifen to Arimidex

...bitor and are currently taking tamoxifen should be switched toanastrozole, to give them the best chance of liv...h hormone receptor–positivebreast cancer who switched from tamoxifen (20 or 30mg/d taken for 2years) to ‘Arimidex’ (1mg/d taken for up to anad...

Anastrozole (Arimidex) Improves Overall Survival in Postmenopausal Women with Early Breast Cancer Receiving Treatment with Tamoxifen

...ibitor and arecurrently taking tamoxifen should be switched to anastrozole, togive them the best chance of liv...enwith hormone receptor?positive breast cancer who switched fromtamoxifen (20 or 30mg/d taken for 2 years) to ?Arimidex? (1mg/dtaken for up to an additional 3 y...

Phase III Clinical Trial with 4-Month Long-Acting Formulation of Triptorelin: Ipsen Decides Not to Perform Further Administration

...heir respectivemonitoring period, patients will be switched to appropriateapproved treatment. The 4-month investigational product, one of Ipsen's newsustained release formulation candidates of triptorelin using oneamongst several Ipsen proprietary technologies, has shown anadequate efficacy and safety profile...

Breaking Multi-Center Study: Masimo SET Pulse Oximetry Technology Shown to Significantly Lower Instances of Severe Retinopathy of Prematurity in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants

... "significantly more favorable" for thecenter that switched to Masimo technology. "In a large group of examined inborn infants <1,250 gramstreated by the same neonatologists, MDs and NNPs using the sameclinical guideline to decrease hyperoxemia and wide changes inoxygenation, the relative risk rate of se...

Auxilium Announces New Data That Show Total Testosterone Blood Levels Increase Significantly Following Switch from AndroGel(R) to Testim(R)

...ronelevels increased significantly in patients who switched toAuxilium's Testim(R) 1% (testosterone gel) follo...nin testosterone gel treatment. Eighty-one percent switched fromAndrogel to Testim, and 19 percent switched from Testim toAndrogel. Total serum testosterone (T)...

New Study Results Provide Additional Data about Short- and Long-Term Use of Desvenlafaxine Succinate in the Treatment of Adults with Major Depressive Disorder

... with a lower incidence ofnausea than patients who switched from placebo to 200 mg/day ofdesvenlafaxine succinate. Furthermore, patients who switched fromvenlafaxine ER to desvenlafaxine succinate and those who remainedon desvenlafaxine succinate wer...

Benicar HCT Reductions in Seated Systolic Blood Pressure for Stage 2 Patients Compared With Amlodipine + Benazepril

...g) at any visit underwentdosage titration and were switched to combination therapy andtitrated to the maximum available dose at the time of thestudy. Patients were randomized to either 2 weeks of double-blindtitration with olmesartan medoxomil 20 mg and then uptitrated toolmesartan medoxomil 40 mg for 2 week...

New Survey Finds Troubling Data on American Asthma Sufferers

...y half of asthma sufferers (43 percent) have switched controller medications. Almost a quarter (23 percent) switched because they heard about a better controller medication. Asthma's Impact on Lifestyle According to...

Prospective Model Outlined Potential Time and Cost Savings of Once-Monthly Anemia Treatment

...and costsavings that could be expected if patients switched to a once everyfour week renal anemia treatment. Researchers concluded that in-center treatment of renal anemia three times a week can belabor-intensive and expensive. The analysis showed that if 100percent of the patients were given a renal anemia t...

Mircera Effective in Stabilising Haemoglobin Levels in Elderly Patients With Kidney Disease on Dialysis

...ver andunder 65 years of age who were successfully switched from thefrequently administered agents, epoetin alfa and beta. The studyinvestigators also noted: -- Minimal changes from baseline to evaluation in mean Hb levelsin patients less than or equal to 65 and >65 years (-0.18 vs-0.34 g/dL), meaning th...

Affymax Announces Phase 2 Clinical Trial Results of Once-Per-Month Hematide for the Treatment of Anemia in Patients with Early- and End-Stage Chronic Kidney Disease

... patientspreviously treated with Epoetin Alfa were switched to Hematide onceevery four weeks. The mean baseline Hgb level, which was 11.5 g/dLat baseline, was maintained within +/- 1 g/dL at the end of sixmonths of treatment. Hematide was generally well tolerated with anadverse event profile consistent with t...

Baraclude (entecavir) Therapy Resulted in Undetectable Levels of Hepatitis B Virus in Cohort of Patients Who Re-Started Treatment

...DE plus 100mg of lamivudine, and were subsequently switched to 1 mg of BARACLUDEmonotherapy. The analysis cohort was defined regardless of treatment responseat the end of dosing in study ETV-027, and independent of virologicor ALT measurements at the start of dosing in study ETV-901. Duringoff-treatment foll...

Study Shows Children With ADHD Who Start on Strattera are More Likely to Change Therapies

...mulants in children to determine how oftenchildren switched therapies. Strattera was found to be the firstdrug tried in one out of five children newly initiating therapy.The results showed that children who start on Strattera were 4.2times more likely to subsequently change therapy than children whostarted on...

Infinity and MedImmune to Present Preclinical Data From Study of Oral Formulation of IPI-504 At AACR

...he survival signal of the mutated cancer cell tobe switched "on" all the time. NSCLC patients with mutations inEGFR have been found to benefit from drugs such as Tarceva(r) andIressa(r) that block EGFR signaling. Over time, however, resistancemutations develop such that patients become resistant to theseagent...

Over 10,000 UK Breast Cancer Patients Could Become Eligible Within the Next Year for a Breast Cancer Therapy Showing Increased Survival Rates, Reveals Synovate Healthcare’s European Oncology Monitor

...owermortality rates were shown in patients who had switched to thearomotase inhibitor, Aromasin (exemestane), after 2-3 years of thecurrent standard hormone drug therapy, tamoxifen. Aromasin wasrecently approved by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence(NICE). Patients who could be eligible in this n...

Seroquel Sustained Release Schizophrenia Data Presented at ECP Congress in Madrid

...e formulation. Among clinicallystable patients who switched from original formulation quetiapine,there were no... events was similar (Study 146). Among patientswho switched to SEROQUEL® sustained release formulation fromother antipsychotics, 62.8 percent achieved impro...

Study of Drug Therapy for Compulsive Buying Yields a Puzzle, Stanford Researcher Says

... take escitalopramcompared with those who had been switched to a placebo. Thoseresults are perplexing to lead author Lorrin Koran, MD, professorof psychiatry and behavioral sciences emeritus, because he had donea similar study in 2003 that found compulsive-buying patientsimproved stably after taking another a...