combination therapy
combined therapy

Combination therapy may work better than any one treatment alone.

The term combination therapy can mean one of two things.

Combination therapy is almost never used with a new patient.

Before it was published, about 6 million women were taking combination therapy.

Some patients have not been helped by combination therapies, although again, no clear numbers are available.

Some adults have trouble with the combination therapy, and the same is true of children.

Many women with normal levels may benefit from combination therapy.

The most successful attempts so far have been in the administration of combination therapy.

In studies on adults, the combination therapy has been highly effective.

The drugs that are used in combination therapies sometimes add to these effects.

Data from combination therapy studies are also gradually becoming available.

Today, a four drug combination therapy exists, but it takes six months or more to be effective.

With multiple agents now available, combination therapy is increasingly used.

If so, you will be put on combination therapy.

Now, she says, everyone is hounding her to go on combination therapy.

Today, this combination therapy is available as generic from several manufacturers.

She added that "we're becoming more concerned and a little less optimistic about combination therapy."

Any new treatment should be randomized against this combination therapy as the standard of care.

However, substantial rates of adverse effects are associated with combination therapy.

Such combination therapy is known to be effective for other infections, like tuberculosis.

Soon after combination therapy begins, two things usually happen.

Of those who can both afford and tolerate the new drug combination therapy, up to 50 percent experience treatment failure within two years.

Using two kinds of treatment is called combination therapy.

However, this kind of combination therapy may also increase the risk of side effects.

Tuberculosis has been treated with combination therapy for over fifty years.

Local control was significantly better in all groups with combined therapy.

But within 5 years after you stop using combined therapy, your risk returns to normal.

But "combined therapy should not routinely be the first treatment for all depressed patients."

Four patients, three in the combined therapy group and one who received radiation only, died from delayed effects.

Compression devices may be helpful when added to combined therapy.

Of these, 62 received radiation alone and 49 received combined therapy.

Thus, combined therapy does not improve mortality and may slightly increase morbidity.

Clear advantages were reported for the combined therapy in all other areas measured in the study.

Further studies are needed to optimize this combined therapy, and to evaluate it using a larger patient population.

When combined therapy is contemplated, the dose of one or both agents should be reduced.

Both the choice of antibiotic and the use of single or combined therapy vary.

Combined therapy with cefoxitin and azlocillin in critical care medicine.

Temporary dosage reduction during combined therapy may be required especially in the elderly.

Doctors recommend women who intend to become pregnant should be switched to a different drug using combined therapy if possible, which takes several months.

External radiation therapy alone (for patients who cannot be treated with combined therapy).

The authors said the findings represented a 36 percent reduction in cancer-related deaths for the combined therapy group.

This is called combined therapy.

Combined therapy is also called complex decongestive therapy.

This combined therapy is referred to as PUVA.

Antiandrogen monotherapy generally causes fewer side effects in males although it may block androgen less effectively than combined therapies.

While there have been several clinical trials of combined therapy none has shown positive enough effects to merit the consideration as a viable treatment for MS.

The immediate side effects of the combined therapy included nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and abnormally low numbers of infection-fighting white cells in the blood.

Medieval legend held that couples wanting a boy should try a combined therapy of taking a drop of lion's blood and making love under a full moon.

'Second line' immunosuppressants: There is evidence that combined therapies of steroids and second line immunosuppressants may be important.

US and EU guidelines disagree somewhat about how long, and for what indications this combined therapy should be continued post-surgery.