How to Use tocilizumab in a Sentence

tocilizumab

noun
  • One patient who had lung disease and a cytokine storm improved quite a bit on tocilizumab, Caricchio says.
    — Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Back in 2010 the FDA approved tocilizumab for rheumatoid arthritis.
    — Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2021
  • If patients don’t want to risk being in the placebo arm, doctors are also prescribing tocilizumab, other anti-cytokine treatments or steroids.
    — Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2020
  • The shortage relates to a formulation of tocilizumab that is delivered by intravenous drip, the company said.
    — Joseph Walker, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2021
  • With the rise in Covid-19 cases, Amin suggests countries consider this option to prepare their own stocks of tocilizumab.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Among the drugs that will be tested in combination with remdesivir are baricitinib and tocilizumab, both of which tamp down inflammation caused by the human immune system.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2020
  • The trial showed no significant benefit of the drug and no difference in the mortality rate of patients on tocilizumab versus a placebo.
    — Amanda Morris, The Arizona Republic, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Pyae received all of the above — as well as an experimental dose of cancer-fighting tocilizumab to try to manage a harmful overreaction by his immune system.
    — Jeremy Olson, Star Tribune, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Some cases may also require anti-inflammatory drugs called baricitinib or tocilizumab.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 12 July 2022
  • There’s infliximab and adalimumab; tocilizumab and trastuzumab; ustekinumab and canakinumab.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2020
  • The World Health Organization recently said drugs like tocilizumab reduce the odds of death by 13% compared with standard care.
    — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2021
  • The drug in question, tocilizumab, was being investigated as a potential treatment for coronavirus patients who experienced high levels of inflammation.
    — Rachael Zisk, Popular Science, 26 Oct. 2020
  • While monoclonal antibody treatments like Regeneron might become less effective, there’s no real reason to think that other staples like dexamethasone or tocilizumab would stop working.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Dec. 2021
  • For these patients, both tocilizumab and sarilumab – two drugs that block cells from responding to IL-6 – may reduce inflammation and decrease mortality when combined with dexamethasone.
    — Patrick Jackson, The Conversation, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Poddar had been told by the private hospital treating his father, Raj Kumar Poddar, that remdesivir, an antiviral, and tocilizumab, a drug that blunts human immune responses, were needed to keep the 68-year-old man alive.
    — Star Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Similarly, the window to use tocilizumab was just 24 hours after a critically ill Covid-19 patient was admitted to the ICU to improve outcomes and survival.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2021

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