Skin testing is often useful to identify potentially cross-reactive compounds and appropriate therapeutic alternatives.

"It's usually a good therapeutic alternative to antidepressants like Zoloft and Paxil, which cost more than $2 a dose."

Phytoestrogens as therapeutic alternatives to traditional hormone replacement in postmenopausal women.

"Prescription drug product placements do not provide consumers adequate information about drug side effects, therapeutic alternatives, efficacy, and costs," the agency writes.

Some of these strategies are use of generic drugs or therapeutic alternatives, substituting a prescription drug with an over-the-counter medication, and pill-splitting.

Researchers believe the findings could lead to therapeutic alternatives to existing substitution treatments.

"If patients are having trouble with expensive medication, I would consider a therapeutic alternative."

Tinidazole may be a therapeutic alternative in the setting of metronidazole tolerance.

The concern is with the substitution of a so-called "therapeutic alternative," a drug that is chemically different but is supposed to have a similar therapeutic effect.

Organ transplantation represents the only therapeutic alternative for patients in the final stage of liver, heart and lung failure.