Study suggests nonpharmaceutical interventions may be helpful in severe influenza outbreaks
... developing effective vaccines and medications for prophylaxis and treatment. The history of U.S. epidemics also cautions that the publics acceptance of these health measures is enhanced when guided by ethical and humane principles....Experts predict Tamiflu could halve the pandemic influenza death toll versus no intervention
... with the oral antiviral Tamiflu (oseltamivir) and prophylaxis for people exposed to infected patients could be o...le within the early months of the pandemic, making prophylaxis and treatment with antivirals a crucial part in the efforts to reduce the burden of pandemic influen...FDA approves ZYFLO CR extended-release tablets for chronic treatment of asthma
...-approved leukotriene synthesis inhibitors for the prophylaxis and chronic treatment of asthma in adults and children 12 years of age and older. ZYFLO CR and ZYFLO are not indicated for use in the reversal of bronchospasm in acute asthma attacks, but can be continued during acute exacerbations of asthma. Leuko...UCLA Stroke Center receives American Stroke Association's Initial Achievement Award
...tPA, antithrombotics, anticoagulation therapy, DVT prophylaxis (prevention of deep-vein thrombosis or clots), cholesterol reducing drugs and smoking cessation. The 90-day evaluation period is the first in an ongoing self-evaluation by the hospital to continually reach the 85 percent compliance level needed to su...Hersh receives IADR Research Award in Pharmacology
... IADR research groups, including one on antibiotic prophylaxis for infective endocarditis. He has served in every leadership role of the Pharmacology, Therapeutics, & Toxicology Group. Overall, Dr. Hersh has made an outstanding contribution to the field of clinical pharmacology. His contribution in research has ...Drug resistance in an influenza pandemic
...ortion of people would receive antiviral drugs for prophylaxis or treatment; how likely the drugs would be to suc.... Second, even with resistant strains circulating, prophylaxis and treatment with oseltamivir would still delay the onset of the pandemic and reduce its total size...Pre-exposure prophylaxis against HIV infection: Which drugs should be tested?
...ho are at high risk of HIV infection (pre-exposure prophylaxis or "PREP") may become an important tool in curbing the HIV pandemic, says a group of researchers in a policy paper in PLoS Medicine. Inge Derdelinckx (University Medical Center, Utrecht) and colleagues formulate criteria for what would be the optim...Sildenafil prevents rebound pulmonary hypertension in infants
...s the first study to investigate the pharmacologic prophylaxis of rebound pulmonary hypertension during the primary attempt to wean from inhaled nitric oxide. This is also the first prospective trial of sildenafil in the prevention of rebound pulmonary hypertension. Moreover, this study is the first that defines...Transfusion-free surgical program reduced use of blood products for all liver transplant patients
...ame level as antibiotic and deep venous thrombosis prophylaxis (prevention)."......ion with varicella-zoster virus, and such antibody prophylaxis may be an effective means of controlling a future SARS outbreak. To be effective, it is important that an antibody-based vaccine offers sufficient breadth of protection against all relevant strains of the SARS virus and prevents the selection of e...Teen sexual assault survivors seldom complete HIV prevention therapy
...e with published recommendations that postexposure prophylaxis be offered to adolescent sexual assault survivors ...management are necessary to encourage postexposure prophylaxis adherence and return for follow-up care among adolescent sexual assault survivors."...Cholesterol-lowering drugs may be useful in an influenza pandemic
...ers." Further research on statins as treatment and prophylaxis for pandemic influenza, including laboratory studies and clinical trials, is crucial, Dr. Fedson said, concluding in his article that statins "could become the only currently available agents to alter the course of what otherwise might become an unpr...High hepatitis B infection rate found among NYC's Asian American community
...p of neonatal screening and vaccination. In China, prophylaxis efforts have only just begun, due to a lack of resources across the country. China has 150 million people who are chronically infected with hepatitis B, says Dr. Pollack. In the 1990s there was a large influx of immigrants from China to the United St...How should countries best respond to a flu pandemic?
...pandemic. Combining pre-vaccination with household prophylaxis could reduce case numbers by two thirds. The supercomputer model simulated pandemic spread in Great Britain and the United States, using detailed data on population density and demographics, together with data on human travel patterns....Aspirin shows promise in combating a common, antibiotic-induced hearing loss
...acute infections and tuberculosis as antibacterial prophylaxis in cystic fibrosis patients and in other conditions. But for all of the good they do, the drugs also have been widely linked to irreversible hearing loss. Now, researchers at the University of Michigan's Kresge Hearing Research Institute and their Ch...Directly observed therapy does not help fight tuberculosis
...dence to support the use of direct observation for prophylaxis in people with latent TB," say the Authors. "DOT is a controversial and expensive intervention, and there appears to be no sound reason to advocate its routine use until we understand the situation in which it may be beneficial," says lead Author Pro...Acupuncture is as effective as standard drug treatments for migraine
...everal effective drug treatments available for the prophylaxis of migraine. However, despite poor evidence from randomised controlled trials, acunpuncture is the most frquently used preventive therapy for migraine in Germany. In their Article, Hans-Christoph Diener (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany) and colle...Patients prescribed long-term corticosteroids often do not receive therapy to prevent osteoporosis
...al and prolonged time interval until initiation of prophylaxis are disappointing because bisphosphonates are agreed to be the most efficacious agents known to prevent glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (GIOP)," the authors report. "This may be due to variations in knowledge about GIOP among different physician...Children with HIV-infection benefit from zinc supplements
...ple by the end of 2005, antiretroviral therapy and prophylaxis for opportunistic infections are not accessible for many children. Consequently, more than half these children die before the age of 3 years, most commonly of respiratory tract infections and diarrhoeal diseasesZinc supplementation could be a simple ...... it might help to improve the timing of short-term prophylaxis regimens and possibly lead to the development of new strategies for preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV....