However, quinidine is not considered the first-line therapy for P. falciparum.

Stimulants are often the first-line therapy, but they can have side effects that include poor appetite and sleeplessness.

They are therefore not used as first-line therapy but can be used when other treatments have not worked.

About a third of the patients were treated with the first-line therapy interferon beta-1a, given by injection three times a week.

However, telavancin did not win the advisory committee's recommendation as first-line therapy for this indication.

These would then become our only first-line therapy.

Some ophthalmologists had predicted it would become a first-line therapy.

"So, we are encouraged by these results and have submitted a grant application to study using this technique as first-line therapy."

They may be considered if first-line therapy fails.

But, he emphasized, music should not be considered a first-line therapy.