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Oral vancomycin alone or combined with either oral or parenteral metronidazole have been workhorses during the current epidemic of nosocomial Clostridium difficile-associated disease. Vancomycin is actually the only drug approved by the US FDA for this purpose.
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Increasingly, infants with a history of neonatal lung disease are traveling by air. With advancing technology, aircraft are able to fly longer distances at higher altitudes.
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This is a sentinel article involving a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study which took 29 adult patients with a history of high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) from 490 m to an ascent of 4559 m within 24 hours, treating them for 2 days with either prophylactic tadalafil 10 mg orally, twice a day, dexamethasone 8 mg orally twice a day or a placebo twice daily, starting on the morning of ascent.
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Antiaging Supplements Proven Ineffective; The Three Most Common Culprits of ADE; New Guidelines for Lyme Disease Prevention; FDA Actions
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The World Health Organization/International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Global Project on Anti-tuberculosis Drug Resistance began collecting its data in 1994 on drug resistance in 90 countries.
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A new electronic, interactive education system provides training and clinical management to clinicians in sub-Saharan Africa and other areas where antiretroviral drugs are now available, but the medical infrastructure has made less progress.
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The FDA, on November 6, 2006, granted tentative approval for a generic formulation of abacavir sulfate tablets, 300 mg, manufactured by Cipla Limited of Mumbai, India. The application was reviewed under the expedited review provisions of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
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Investigators intending to develop an economic model for HIV adherence made some surprising discoveries, including the conclusion that the initial antiretroviral therapy is the strongest one, but it doesn't matter which ART regimen is taken first.
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Twenty years ago, a researcher overheard one doctor say to another: "I'm not sure AIDS is so much a problem as it may be a solution to a problem."
