1. But the best results in the tests on mice were achieved when the drugs were combined. 2. By combining new drugs called protease inhibitors with old workhorses like AZT, desperately ill patients are achieving miraculous remissions. 3. Data from the study also showed that combining the drug with surgical castration had no significant survival benefit. 4. Doctors were also advised not to combine the drug with blood-pressure lowering drugs known as beta blockers or calcium channel antagonists. 5. Ho said the best bet would be to combine drugs in the hope of finding a drug cocktail that the virus could not escape. 6. It also opens the possibility that drugs could be combined to achieve a greater effect. 7. Kennedy said consumers have become ill and some have died because of the adverse reaction from combining prescription drugs with antacids and over-the-counter headache remedies. 8. Many patients end up on a merry-go-round of medication trials, switching repeatedly from one drug to another or combining drugs to maximize their effects. 9. Many supplements combine those drugs with another stimulant like caffeine or guarana, an herb containing caffeine. 10. Michael Diehl, a spokesman for Bayer, said the European warnings came later because fewer Europeans combined different drugs and fewer problems were arising. |