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Salmeterol - to be used in combination & only when required

.... The UI physicians' letter follows up a related editorial published December 2005 in the NEJM by Fernando Martinez, M.D., a leading asthma expert. The letter also helps illustrate findings reported this year in a large, population-based study in the United States that is consistent with a previous study in ...

US Miners Still Prey to Black lung Disease

...fect. According to the estimates from a related editorial 5.5 cases of advanced coal workers' pneumoconiosis would be expected if dust levels had not exceeded the current limits. However, 11.9 cases would be expected if miners' exposure averaged double the limit. Therefore they recommended that mandated ...

Lower Birth Rate and Fewer Girls under China’s one Child Polic

...normal sex ratio, they conclude. An accompanying editorial discusses the impact of this policy on China’s economy. ...

Alarming Increase in Obesity In China

An editorial published in the British Medical Journal has noted...Beijing referring to the survey has written in the editorial that "China was once considered to have one of the leanest populations, but it is fast catching up w...

Voices of HIV-positive missing at AIDS conference

...sex workers who are today's faces of HIV/AIDS," an editorial in a conference newsletter by Britain's development communication agency Panos said Thursday. "They know what drives this epidemic intimately, and are already finding innovative responses. Why are we not listening?" Of course people living with HIV...

A Comprehensive CD-ROM On HIV/AIDS Released By Center for HIV Information

... Paul Volberding, MD, chairman of the HIV InSite's editorial advisory board, and chief of medicine at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, and the professor and vice-chairman of medicine at UCSF, said, 'We have chosen the chapters that are most broadly applicable to HIV care in a variety of settings around the...

Painless Control Of Blood Sugar Levels When Detected Early

...logist at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, in an editorial accompanying the study. This report and another related one, explaining the cause of 12% of the neonatal diabetic cases, is cited in today’s New England Journal of Medicine....

LABA Drugs Dangerous In Asthma

...liou, of the University of Cambridge who penned an editorial in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine said that LABA drugs, which include Serevent, salmeterol and formoterol, should always be used in addition to other steroid drugs as using them singly will cause irreversible damage. “We are seeing an...

Enzyme Urokinase Better Option In Empyema For Kids

... in the U.S., and $2.5 million in the U.K. In an editorial on the research in the same issue of the journal, Julian L. Allen, M.D., and Peter Mattei M.D., of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, wrote: The authors are to be congratulated in designing ...

Two Distinct Types of Vocal Cord Dysfunction Identified

... disorder once the diagnosis is made," wrote guest editorial author Michael O'Connell, M.D., of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Aurora, Co. "This should energize us to encourage our colleagues in allergy-immunology and primary care to learn the characteristic presentations of this disorder...

New Drug to Help Smokers Kick the Habit

...Inc. and received FDA approval in May. A related editorial however cautions smokers against considering the drug as a panacea for quitting smoking. According to co-author Dr. Robert C. Klesges, from the University of Tennessee in Memphis, "There are some important gastrointestinal side effects and, in the cu...

Biomarker Reduces Length of Antibiotic Treatment

...al and other parameters,” said Dr. Müller. In an editorial on the research in the same issue of the journal, Richard G. Wunderink, M.D., of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, noted that procalcitonin does not return to low levels for two weeks in bacteremic patients and is...

Procalcitonin-Guided Antibiotic Therapy Proved Effective in CAP Cure

...al and other parameters,’ said Dr. Müller. In an editorial on the research in the same issue of the journal, Richard G. Wunderink, M.D., of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, noted that procalcitonin does not return to low levels for two weeks in bacteremic patients and is...

Cancer Drug to Treat Scleroderma Lung Disease

...University of Michigan Health System, in a related editorial wrote that cyclophosphamide is 'arguably the most toxic immunosuppressive agent currently used to treat lung disease.' But as Martinez said, there could be patients for which the benefits of the drug outweigh the risks. 'In patients who clearly h...

Clues To Identify Psychological Seizures

...University of South Florida in Tampa, who wrote an editorial accompanying the studies. “Right now there is an average of seven to nine years from the time someone first has these seizures and when they are correctly diagnosed with psychological nonepileptic seizures. During that time, they are given drugs for ...

Pneumonia Effectively Treated with Short-Term Antibiotic Course

...ospital, in England, and author of an accompanying editorial in the journal, ‘There is a lack of clear evidence to allow clinicians to know the optimal duration of antibiotic therapy for many common infections. He added, ‘We know that some infections do require long-term therapy to prevent relapse. We know for...

Fatigue After Liver Transplantation Does Not Lessen With Time

...ablished in future research.' In an accompanying editorial in the same issue, Jayant A. Talwalkar, M.D., M.P.H. of the Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, MN notes that while many symptoms of liver disease resolve following transplant, fatigue is one...

Daily Intake Of Alcohol Reduces Heart Disease In Men Than Women

...terns and heart health among men and women, but an editorial warns that the results should be interpreted with caution and should not be used to justify potentially harmful drinking behaviour. It is widely known that moderate drinkers have a lower risk of coronary heart disease than those who abstain, but mo...

Loss and damage to the brain cells possible with lead exposure in years ahead

...versity of New Mexico in Albuquerque, who wrote an editorial accompanying the article. "There have been many studies done on the effects of lead on children's IQ, but the possible effects in other areas, such as attention, aggression, or any mental disorders, have gotten less attention. Exposure to inorganic l...

Study Finds That Migraine Drug Can Ease The Severest Of Facial Pain

...of University Hospital in Salamanca, Spain, in his editorial explained that the rapid onset of relief is plus, but subcutaneous injections that should be given at least twice a day would be a drawback. He went to suggest that sumatriptan might be ideal as short-term treatment until oral drugs begin to work, or...

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