Category of drugs used to classify a drug according to certain criteria.
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Examples for "drug class"
Examples for "drug class"
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Safety issues have recently clouded prospects for the GLP-1 drug class.
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They are an already approved drug class with a well known toxicity profile.
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Echinocandins are the newest fungicidal drug class introduced but are ineffective in treating cryptococcosis.
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Understanding the emergence of resistance to this important new drug class is of critical importance.
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Our results show that host TIS signatures differ between drug target, drug class, and dose.
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Januvia is a member of a class of drug known as DPP-IV inhibitors.
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All three companies make phosphate binders, a class of drug used to treat kidney dialysis patients.
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Bisphosphonates are a class of drug aimed at preventing bone fractures and offseting bone loss associated with menopause.
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In 2007, there were more FDA warnings about the dangers of antidepressants than any other class of drug.
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He takes an aspirin daily and a low dose of a statin, a class of drug used to treat high cholesterol.
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PNA rates were calculated by drug group and descriptive statistics were performed.
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In 9 patients from the drug group, the stone was completely dissolved.
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In particular, the combined drug group had the most significant effect.
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Just 12 percent of the patients in the drug group achieved that goal.
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None of the drug group comparisons showed consistent significant differences in the GFR slope.
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The unlocked human genome opens even our innermost passions to scrutiny and tinkering, blazing the way to an entirely new class of pharmaceutical.
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These novel PUFAs could form the basis for a potential new class of pharmaceuticals for treating inflammatory diseases, including atherosclerosis.
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The development of anti-therapeutic protein immune responses in patients can be a severe complication of treatment with this class of pharmaceuticals.
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Thus, additional caution may be needed in patients who use this class of medication after dental extraction.
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But those studies tended to focus on one class of medication or only a segment of the population.
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Antimalarials are an important class of medication used to treat this disease and have been the first-line systemic therapy since the 1950s.
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The patient would receive the least expensive drug in the same class of medications.
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Antibiotics are the most common class of medications that individuals report allergy or intolerance to.
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Impulsivity is commonly associated with addiction to drugs from different pharmacological classes, but its causal role in human addiction is unclear.