second-line drug

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second-line drug

Any therapeutic agent that is not the drug of choice, or the 1^st normally used to treat a particular condition; in rheumatoid arthritis, 2^nd-line agents are used when standard 'first-line' therapy–ie, anti-inflammatory agents and corticosteroids fail

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drug drug of choice			India's patent office rejected claims by Gilead on Tenofovir - a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, which is a frontline drug against HIV/AIDS in poor countries - and by Tibotec on Darunavir, a newer and more expensive protease inhibitor used as a second-line drug. India says no to AIDS drug patents, reaffirms role as 'pharmacy' of ... by Asian News International It was feared that the major consequence would be that large numbers of patients would develop high-level resistance to some second-line drugs. Viral load testing the only way to direct treatment switches by Alcorn, Keith / CME: Your SA Journal of CPD There are two main classes of medication used to treat rheumatoid arthritis: first-line and second-line drugs. Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatments, Ways to Treat Rheumatoid Arthritis by John Adison / Health, general community			Second Degree Intent second disease phenomenon second filial generation Second Heart second heart sound Second Impact Syndrome Second Look Operation second messenger second messengers second molar second opinion Second Pain second prescription Second Revolution second sight Second Skin second stage of labor second surgical opinion second tooth Second Wind Phenomenon second-degree block second-degree burn second-generation oral contraceptive Second-Hand Smoke second-line chemotherapy second-line drug second-look operation second-opinion program second-order change second-order kinetics second-order reactions second-set phenomenon second-set reaction second-set rejection second-stage reconstruction second-wind phenomenon secondary secondary abdominal pregnancy secondary adhesion secondary adrenocortical insufficiency Secondary Aerosolisation secondary alcohol secondary aldosteronism secondary allergen secondary amenorrhea secondary amputation secondary amyloidosis secondary analysis secondary anesthetic secondary antibody response secondary aplastic anemia			second-guess second-guess second-guessed second-guessed second-guesser second-guesser second-guesses second-guesses second-guessing second-guessing Second-Hand Second-hand shop Second-hand Smoke Second-hand Smoke (album) Second-hand smoking Second-hand smoking Second-hand smoking Second-hand smoking second-hand speech second-hand store Second-Harmonic Magneto-Optic Kerr Effect Second-home Second-home Second-home second-homer second-in-command Second-Least Recently Used Second-level cache second-level controller second-line chemotherapy second-line drug second-look arthroscopy second-look arthroscopy second-look arthroscopy second-look arthroscopy second-look operation second-moment closure second-opinion program second-order administrative area Second-Order Auto-Regressive second-order balanced truncation Second-Order Blind Identification second-order change second-order climatological station Second-Order Closed Loop Second-order Closure Integrated PUFF Second-Order Cone Second-Order Cone Programming Second-ORder Connected Moments Expansion Second-Order Correlated Localized Orbital second-order difference Second-Order Differential Equation Second-Order Distorted Wave Second-Order Distorted-Wave Born second-order equation Second-Order Extended Exact Transfer Function Second-Order Intermodulation Distortion Second-Order Intermodulation Intercept Point

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