How to Use tocilizumab in a Sentence

tocilizumab

noun

• Back in 2010 the FDA approved tocilizumab for rheumatoid arthritis.
  — Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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 shortage relates to a formulation of tocilizumab that is delivered by intravenous drip, the company said.
  — Joseph Walker, WSJ, 18 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Countries can just make their own Actemra—sort of For rich countries not covered under the Roche setup, there is another option to combat tocilizumab shortages: compulsory licensing.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 20 Aug. 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
• There’s infliximab and adalimumab; tocilizumab and trastuzumab; ustekinumab and canakinumab.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 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
• Some cases may also require anti-inflammatory drugs called baricitinib or tocilizumab.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 12 July 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024