Biological Products - Therapeutic use
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Sunday, March 21, 2010

[The German interdisciplinary taskforce for clinical hemotherapy IAKH and its national critical incident reporting system specifically for blood transfusion]

9 Sep 2009 The German interdisciplinary task force for clinical hemotherapy (IAKH) is an independent association of clinicians. It aims for the improvement of blood transfusion application processes, procedures and safety in the absence of a German ... Read more...

Red yeast rice.

5 Sep 2009 Red yeast rice is a food product that has been used in Chinese cooking and medicine for centuries. It is available in the US in a capsule formulation and is often used by patients who want a "natural" product to lower ... Read more...

Juvenile spondyloarthropathies: inflammation in disguise.

30 Aug 2009 Spondyloarthropathies are inflammatory conditions of the spine, joints, and entheses that present in a variety of ways. They can take years to develop and there are no pathognomonic laboratory tests that confirm a diagnosis. Because of this, they ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Biological Products - Therapeutic use'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [The German interdisciplinary taskforce for clinical hemotherapy IAKH and its national critical incident reporting system specifically for blood transfusion] 9 Sep 2009
• Red yeast rice. 5 Sep 2009
• Juvenile spondyloarthropathies: inflammation in disguise. 30 Aug 2009
• Joint approach. 30 Aug 2009
• Emerging drugs for the treatment of ulcerative colitis. 30 Aug 2009
• Rheumatoid arthritis market. 30 Aug 2009
• Deal watch: BMS bets on biologic immunotherapies. 30 Aug 2009
• [Do biologicals have a place in the treatment of collagen diseases? Contra] 26 Aug 2009
• [Do biologicals have a place in the treatment of collagen diseases? Pro] 26 Aug 2009
• The challenge of follow-on biologics for treatment of multiple sclerosis. 16 Aug 2009
• Plant-derived antimalarial agents: new leads and efficient phytomedicines. Part II. Non-alkaloidal natural products. 11 Aug 2009
• Drug discovery from natural products. 30 Jul 2009
• [How to deal with suspected rheumatoid arthritis at an early stage] 21 Jul 2009
• [Biosimilars in oncology] 13 Jul 2009
• Chronic inflammation as a manifestation of defects in immunoregulatory networks: implications for novel therapies based on microbial products. 12 Jul 2009
• Synthesis at the molecular frontier. 7 Jul 2009
• Potential protective effect of long-term therapy with Xuezhikang on left ventricular diastolic function in patients with essential hypertension. 29 Jun 2009
• Impact of natural products on developing new anti-cancer agents. 29 Jun 2009
• Effective lavage volume of diluted surfactant improves the outcome of meconium aspiration syndrome in newborn piglets. 29 Jun 2009
• An audience with...Peter Kiener. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Biological Products'

Definition: Complex pharmaceutical substances, preparations, or agents of organic origin, usually obtained by biological methods or assay. They are used especially in diagnosis and treatment of disease (as vaccines or pollen extracts). Biological products are differentiated from BIOLOGICAL FACTORS in that the latter are compounds with biological or physiological activity made by living organisms. (From Webster's 3d ed)

Registry Number: 0

Descriptor UI: D001688

Alternative terms: Biological Products; Biologics; Products, Biological; Biologic Products; Products, Biologic; Natural Products; Products, Natural;

Allowable Qualifiers: administration & dosage; adverse effects; analysis; antagonists & inhibitors; biosynthesis; blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemical synthesis; classification; deficiency; diagnostic use; economics; genetics; history; immunology; isolation & purification; metabolism; pharmacokinetics; pharmacology; physiology; poisoning; radiation effects; secretion; standards; supply & distribution; therapeutic use; toxicity; urine; chemistry; contraindications; agonists;

Tree Number: D20.215;

History Note: 1963; for NATURAL PRODUCTS also use BIOLOGICAL FACTORS 2000-2005

Technical Notes: differentiate from BIOLOGICAL FACTORS; /ther use: coordinate with disease /ther, not /drug ther