1.   A new oral drug has been selected for clinical trials which are progressing well at The Royal Marsden Hospital.

2.   In this patient group, the use of intravenous procainamide may help to determine the likelihood of achieving a suppressive oral antiarrhythmic drug regimen.

3.   Among the aids are vacuum pumps, injections, implantable prostheses, and new oral drugs.

4.   An injectable drug would reduce the number of patients missing doses or taking only part of an oral drug, the panel was told.

5.   An injectable drug could also reduce the number of patients missing doses or taking only part of an oral drug.

6.   And Gilead Sciences of Foster City and Hoffman-La Roche are working on an oral drug.

7.   Alkermes also has an oral drug delivery technology called ProLease that Genentech Inc. uses to market a sustained-release version of its human growth factor.

8.   But not long after that, if all goes well, new oral drugs could postpone or even prevent the need for some to use insulin.

9.   Cancer therapy is moving swiftly toward greater reliance on oral drugs to treat tumors of the breast, colon, lung, pancreas and prostate.

10.   Cytolex would be the first ever local treatment with as much efficacy as an oral drug.