Long-Term Glycaemic Durability of Early Combination Therapy Strategy versus Metformin Monotherapy in Korean Patients with Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus [PDF]
We assessed the glycaemic durability with early combination (EC; vildagliptin+metformin [MET], n=22) versus MET monotherapy (n=17), among newly-diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) enrolled (between 2012 and 2014) in the VERIFY study from Korea (n ...
Soon-Jib Yoo +8 more
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Omadacycline Potentiates Clarithromycin Activity Against Mycobacterium abscessus
Mycobacterium abscessus is a difficult respiratory pathogen to treat, when compared to other nontuberculus mycobacteria (NTM), due to its drug resistance.
Bui Thi Bich Hanh +7 more
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Basic principles of combination therapy: focus on drug-drug interaction
The article is devoted to the issue of drug interactions in the combination regimens. Today, when drug therapy is the first-line approach for patients with noncommunicable diseases, and the world population ageing leads to an increase in the number of ...
S. Yu. Martsevich +2 more
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Background: Drug interactions are important causes of adverse events. Assessments of pharmacological interactions outside healthcare services settings are scarce. Objective: To assess the frequency and factors associated with these potential interactions
Tayanny Margarida Menezes Almeida Biase +2 more
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Various nanocarriers have been explored to deliver drugs for combination therapy. However, most nanocarriers are composed of inert materials without contribution for improving the cancer therapeutic effect.
Jingqi Xin +3 more
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Nanoparticles for Combination Drug Therapy [PDF]
Nanoparticles have recently emerged as a promising class of carriers for the co-delivery of multiple drugs. Combination therapies of small-molecule drugs are common in clinical practice, and it is anticipated that packaging into single macromolecular carriers will enable drug release in precisely balanced ratios and rates and in selectively targeted ...
Liang, Ma, Manish, Kohli, Andrew, Smith
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Understanding and targeting resistance mechanisms in cancer
Resistance to cancer therapies has been a commonly observed phenomenon in clinical practice, which is one of the major causes of treatment failure and poor patient survival. The reduced responsiveness of cancer cells is a multifaceted phenomenon that can
Zi‐Ning Lei +6 more
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Tools to develop antibiotic combinations that target drug tolerance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Combination therapy is necessary to treat tuberculosis to decrease the rate of disease relapse and prevent the acquisition of drug resistance, and shorter regimens are urgently needed.
Talia Greenstein +5 more
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Efficacy and Safety of Pioglitazone versus Glimepiride after Metformin and Alogliptin Combination Therapy: A Randomized, Open-Label, Multicenter, Parallel-Controlled Study [PDF]
BackgroundThere is limited information regarding the optimal third-line therapy for managing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) that is inadequately controlled using dual combination therapy.
Jeong Mi Kim +12 more
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Disseminated Rhodococcus equi infection in a patient with Hodgkin’s lymphoma [PDF]
Introduction. Rhodococcus (R) equi is an opportunistic, uncommon human pathogen that causes mainly infection in immunocompromised hosts. The disease is usually presented as subacute pneumonia that is mostly cavitary and sometimes bacteremic ...
Mikić Dragan +3 more
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