Awareness, quick action key to battling canine bacterial disease
...r than 105 degrees F. Treatment at this point with injectable antibiotics, clindamycin or crystalline penicillin... than 105 degrees F). Treatment at this point with injectable antibiotics (clindamycin or crystalline penicillin-G) is important in order to increase the likeliho...Treatment restores normal heart rhythm in patients
...cardioversion altogether. Ibutilide fumarate is an injectable (class III) antiarrythmic medication thatstabilizes electrical membranes by affecting sodium channels. Ibutilide has beenused until now to convert patients from atrial fibillation to a normal heartrhythm without the electrical shock therapy, but it w...Gene Therapy Incorporates Molecular Rheostat For Controlled, Long-Term Drug Delivery
...nt drug deliverysystems, Gilman adds. With oral or injectable drugs, the patient experiencespeaks and valleys in the amount of drug in the blood, which rises sharply afteradministration and then declines steadily until the next dose. Side effects areoften most severe during peaks and then drop to levels that ma...Duke Researchers Develop First Treatment For Rare Muscle Disease
...asting condition called Pompedisease. The injectable enzyme treatment was developed by Duke pediatric medicalgeneticist Dr. Yuan-Tsong Chen. He said it is the first therapy to show promisein any type of a genetic muscle-wasting disease. Muscular dystrophy is a broad category of inherited disea...... “There are Third World countries in which injectable or even oral vaccines are still not practical; the health systems and finances are inadequate,” he explains. “What might be a more practical solution is to put the genes for the carrier-vaccines into a plant such as a banana. ...