Testosterone May Affect Learning Skills; May Be Put In Tablet Form
... Three months later, the men receiving the hormone tablets had normal sexual function and performed significa...those getting the placebo, the results showed. The tablets allowed the men to perform as well sexually as when they received testosterone injections but withou...Doctors And Patients Should Co-Sign Prescriptions
...Patients do not always take the full course of the tablets they are prescribed and sometimes doctors are not sure of what patients really want, say Dr Joe Colllier and Professor Sean Hilton who have written a letter in this week's BMJ. They say that to resolve this mismatch and improve the chances of treatm...Science Is On The Trail Of Sexual Predators That Dope Women
...a Roche, which makes thedrug, has reformulated its tablets so that they turn drinks blue, but illicittablets are still available on the black market. Rohypnol belongs to a class of sedatives called benzodiazepines, whichincludes Valium. But it is 10 times as potent as other drugs in the class, andso ...Study Finds Combining Exercise With Male Hormone Therapy Benefits Men With HIV-Wasting Disease
...selin, N.J.; and DonCatlin, MD, UCLA. Placebo tablets and oxandrolone tablets were provided by Bio-TechnologyGeneral Corporation. The research was supported in part by gran...Two Beta-Blocker Drugs Equal In Treating Heart Failure
... the researchers had a pharmacist crush metoprolol tablets andrepackage the powder in capsules to obtain low-enough doses for initiatingtherapy. Because metoprolol is an older medication and now generic, the manufacturer hasnot sought FDA approval for a low-dose form -- a problem that may be solved by anew e......acebo tablet daily; and 2,576 received two placebo tablets daily. Women with ahistory of breast cancer or those who were taking estrogen were excluded fromthe study. Among the 7,705 women enrolled in the study, Cummings reports that a total of 54cases of breast cancer were confirmed, 40 of which were classi...Low doses of aspirin help prevent some strokes; high doses may increase risk for others
...isk of ischemicstroke, taking more than 15 aspirin tablets per week doubles the risk ofdeveloping a hemorrhag... Women who took low doses of aspirin (one to six tablets per week) had a lowerrisk of ischemic stroke, whereas women who took higher doses of aspirin (moreth...Bristol-Meyers Squibb submits NDA for new formulation of once daily videx(R)(didanosine)
... capsules will further reduce pill burden from two tablets to a single capsule dosed once a day. "Guided by ...he world. In October 1999, the FDA approved VIDEX tablets for once-a-day dosing; concurrently, BMS launched a 200 mg tablet which simplifies dosing to two tab...FDA approval means Americans with osteoarthritis have a new option
...Drug Administration has approved MOBIC (meloxicam) tablets for marketing as a treatment for osteoarthritis. ...e. For these patients, today's clearance of MOBIC tablets for marketing in the U.S. provides an important new option. MOBIC tablets will be marketed in the Un...First large-scale clinical study establishes the efficacy of the new oral anticoagulant H 376/95
...ration offering patients the possibility of taking tablets instead of having injections. The drug is well absorbed and has no known interactions with other drugs or food. There is no need for laboratory monitoring, which is a great relief for patients." Dr Eriksson continued: "Patients undergoing hip or k......ed for Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis. "Allegra 30-mg tablets offer physicians a safe, nonsedating allergy treat...n a study of 411 pediatric patients, Allegra 30-mg tablets BID significantly reduced total symptom scores compared to placebo and was well tolerated among chil...... the nucleoside plus PI regimen took two indinavir tablets every eight hours and one Combivir tablet twice a day in one study and three nelfinavir tablets every eight hours and one Combivir tablet twice a day in the second study. The patients taking indin......atients on Combivir plus PI regimen took indinavir tablets every eight hours and one Combivir tablet twice a ...atients taking indinavir were required to take the tablets 1 hour before or 2 hours after a meal and drink one-and-a-half quarts of water a day in accordance w...Paracetamol restrictions reduce overdose severity
...pective study Limiting the number of paracetamol tablets in a single packet has reduced the amount taken in single overdoses, but not the level of severe liver failure, according to a study in this week's BMJ. Researchers in Belfast identified patients admitted to hospital with paracetamol poisoning durin...... efficacy and safety of VIDEX EC capsules to VIDEX tablets each taken once-daily in combination with ZERIT (stavudine) and nelfinavir over a 48-week period. Results of each treatment arm show comparable efficacy in suppressing the HIV virus. In each treatment arm, HIV RNA levels dropped below 400 copie...Researchers seek women with premature ovarian failure for testosterone replacement study
... also wear a patch that delivers estrogen and take tablets containing the hormone progestin. These two groups of women will be compared with a third group of women who have normal ovarian function. All the women in the study will receive periodic scans to measure bone density as well as tests of cognition,...... target pathogens associated with CAP. Biaxin XL tablets are indicated for mild-to-moderate infections in a...s pneumoniae. In adult clinical trials, Biaxin XL tablets taken once daily resulted in clinical cure rates comparable to that of the original formulation of B......e months a year for two successive years. Biaxin tablets are indicated for mild-to-moderate infections in adults for the treatment of pharyngitis/tonsillitis due to Streptococcus pyogenes; for the treatment of acute maxillary sinusitis due to Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis, or Streptococcus ...Lower dose hormone replacement therapy just as effective as often prescribed doses
...al changes. The women were instructed to take two tablets - one was CEE or matching placebo, the other was a mixture of CEE and MPA. After one year researchers found that the women taking .45 milligrams of CEE and 1.5 milligrams of MPA, and .3 milligrams of CEE and 1.5 milligrams of MPA had reduced numbers ...... fever. Patients received either butterbur extract tablets or a commonly used non-sedating antihistamine (cetirizine) as recommended by the manufacturers. After two weeks, the effects of butterbur and cetirizine were similar in the two treatment groups. Cetirizine produced more sedative effects (drowsiness a...