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• n  an additive that enhances the effectiveness of medical treatment
• s  furnishing added support
  an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism
• s  enhancing the action of a medical treatment
  the adjuvant action of certain bacteria

• These drugs are considered adjuvant--that is, auxiliary--therapies because they're usually used in conjunction with conventional medications when the latter fail to provide relief.
• Novartis Vaccines added what's called an adjuvant, or immune-boosting chemical, to its version of the swine flu shot and found a 7.

• accessory
• adjunct
• ancillary
• appurtenant
• auxiliary

News & Articles

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• Neumedicines Receives an Award of $8.3 Million from BARDA for Continued Development of HemaMax as a Countermeasure to ...
  Neumedicines Inc., a privately held company developing therapies based on interleukin-12 as a radiation medical countermeasure and as a hematological adjuvant cancer therapy , announces the award of $8.3 million from the Biomedical Advanced Research & Development Authority of the U.S.
  June 10, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Daniel Vasella in CIDRAP
  In the Novartis announcement today, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Daniel Vasella said, "We are proud to be one of the first companies to bring influenza cell culture as well as adjuvant technology to the United States. We have seen a great...
• Mike Leavitt in Reuters
  In the event of an influenza pandemic, a vaccine that uses adjuvant could provide a way to extend a limited vaccine supply to more people,HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt said in a statement.
• Glenn in StreetInsider.com (subscription)
  This data also confirms our general approach of using an adjuvant patch to improve the immune response to injected vaccines and the ability of our adjuvant to safely and effectively stimulate robust immune responses via the skin,said Gregory...