In the postgenome era, development of novel targeted therapeutics is anticipated to accelerate, with the promise of specifically tailored strategies to treat specific molecularly characterized disease entities.
"In the future, if companies will prove that specific cannabis strains can cure or treat specific illnesses, then we can make honey from those specific strains, specifically to treat the correlating illness," Ben Aharon says, hopefully.
The act also prevents manufacturers from saying on labels that their products can prevent or treat specific diseases or symptoms.
Some, which are not absorbed, can be administered orally to treat specific localized infections in the gastrointestinal tract.
Derivative products used to treat specific factor deficiencies or coagulopathies may also be manufactured from plasma.
The F.D.A. has jurisdiction over dietary supplements, defined as products that can offer general health benefits but cannot claim to treat specific diseases or symptoms.
The F.D.A. will approve them, if safe and effective, only to treat specific diseases, but it could be inferred that the drugs might thereby extend lifespan.
The company is developing new iterations of the drug intended to treat specific targets, such as pain receptors, without weakening muscles.
Mr. Shacknai of Medicis said he understood ethicists' concerns about the marketing of medications prescribed to treat specific diseases.
Further work in this field is likely to yield devices that are designed to treat specific wound types.
Unlike other specialized hospitals, like psychiatric or children's hospitals, long-term care hospitals do not treat specific types of patients or offer services unavailable in regular hospitals.
