A comparison of two formulations of indomethacin ('Flexin Continus' tablets and 'Indocid' capsules) in the treatment of osteoarthritis.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) occurs in approximately 1% of infants and children and is associated with recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs). The objective of this paper is to examine the use of endoscopic injection with dextranomer/hyaluronic acid copolymer (Dx/HA) as a curative option and as an alternati...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Elder JS,Shah MB,Batiste LR,Eaddy M

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Pioglitazone hydrochloride (Actos † ) and rosiglitazone maleate (Avandia ‡ ) are members of the thiazolidinedione (TZD) class of oral anti-diabetic drugs (OADs) and are used to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Greater beneficial effects on lipids have been demonstrated with pioglitazone, however. Study...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Tunis SL,Minshall ME,St Charles M,Pandya BJ,Baran RW

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An open clinical evaluation was carried out in 736 African out-patients suffering from rheumatic and inflammatory disorders to assess the efficacy and tolerability of tenoxicam in relieving the signs and symptoms of their condition. On entry, all previous treatment was discontinued and patients received a simple daily...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Ibrahima K,Kodjo G,Issa S,Seye L,Cisse F,Eassey G,Rietiker S

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Latinos are the largest minority population in the United States, and are characterized by higher rates of obesity and diabetes compared to Whites. The prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in Latinos is two-fold higher than in Caucasians, and Latinos suffer from higher rates of diabetic complications and mortali...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Gonzalez AB,Salas D,Umpierrez GE

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of fulranumab as adjunct or monotherapy in patients with knee or hip pain related to moderate-to-severe osteoarthritis.Methods: Osteoarthritic patients (aged ≥18 years) from four phase 3 randomized, double-blind (DB), placebo-controlled studies were randomized to receive ...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Kelly KM,Sanga P,Zaki N,Wang S,Haeussler J,Louie J,Thipphawong J

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To further assess the clinically active dose range of etoricoxib, a COX-2 selective inhibitor, in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS:RA patients were randomized to etoricoxib 10, 30, 60, or 90 mg or placebo in a double-blind, 12-week study. DMARDs (methotrexate, biologics) or low-dose corticosteroids were al...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Greenwald M,Peloso PM,Mandel D,Soto O,Mehta A,Frontera N,Boice JA,Zhan XJ,Curtis SP

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rising prevalence of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and the recent emergence of community-associated MRSA are major clinical, public health, and economic challenges. MRSA is a leading cause of nosocomial pneumonia and complicated skin and soft-tissue infections (cSSTI). Van...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Stein GE,Wells EM

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of recent clinical trials with rivastigmine show that in the approved indication of mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD), the drug is effective in the long term. Rivastigmine produces a significant delay in the decline of the three components of AD that have been identified by European guidelines as e...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Gabelli C

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a double-blind study of 102 patients with a mean age of 79 years, zopiclone was compared to flunitrazepam. The patients rated their sleep in a diary. There was no statistically significant difference between the relatively low dose of 5 mg zopiclone and 1 mg flunitrazepam for eleven out of the twelve variables meas...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Dehlin O,Rubin B,Rundgren A

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Venous thromboembolism (VTE), which includes deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism (PE), is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. VTE is a common disorder, with an estimated annual incidence of approximately 5-12 persons per 10,000. The prognosis for patients who develop VTE is exacerbated by the r...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Ruppert A,Lees M,Steinle T

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doxofylline (7-(1,3-dioxalan-2-ylmethyl) theophylline) is a novel xanthine bronchodilator which differs from theophylline in that it contains a dioxalane group in position 7. Similarly to theophylline, its mechanism of action is related to the inhibition of phosphodiesterase activities, but in contrast it appears to h...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Dini FL,Cogo R

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Decision aids (DAs) are increasingly used to operationalize shared decision-making (SDM) but their development is not often described. Decisions about oral anticoagulants (OACs) for atrial fibrillation (AF) involve a trade-off between lowering stroke risk and increasing OAC-associated bleeding risk, and consi...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Kaiser K,Cheng WY,Jensen S,Clayman ML,Thappa A,Schwiep F,Chawla A,Goldberger JJ,Col N,Schein J

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Eltrombopag, an oral, nonpeptide thrombopoietin receptor agonist, has been shown to increase platelet counts in adults with chronic immune thrombocytopenia and chronic hepatitis C. This multicenter phase 2 study assessed the efficacy and safety of eltrombopag in patients receiving first-line carboplatin/pacl...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Kellum A,Jagiello-Gruszfeld A,Bondarenko IN,Patwardhan R,Messam C,Mostafa Kamel Y

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled study was carried out to assess the efficacy and safety of 0.025% and 0.05% azelastine eye drops twice daily administered for 14 days to patients with seasonal allergic conjunctivitis or rhinoconjunctivitis. A total of 278 patients were recruited and 226 patients were ...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Lenhard G,Mivsek-Music E,Perrin-Fayolle M,Obtulowicz K,Secchi A

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All the components of the kallikrein-kinin system are located in the vascular smooth muscle as well as in the heart. In recent years, numerous observations obtained from clinical and experimental models of diabetes, hypertension, cardiac failure, ischaemia, myocardial infarction and left ventricular hypertrophy, have ...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Sharma JN,Sharma J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In controlled clinical trials, rabeprazole effectively improves symptoms and heals oesophageal erosions in patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD). AIM:To examine symptom relief during week 1 of rabeprazole therapy, in addition to GORD healing, in a clinical practice setting. METHODS:In this...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Archimandritis AJ,Nikolopoulou V,Kouklakis G,Paraskevas E,Avgerinos A,Tsianos E,Triantafillidis JK,Hellenic Rabeprazole Study Group.

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: This economic evaluation aims to provide a preliminary assessment of the cost-effectiveness of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) compared with argon plasma coagulation (APC) when used to treat APC-refractory gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) in symptomatic patients.Methods: A Markov model was constructed t...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Magee C,Graham D,Leonard C,McMaster J,Davies H,Skotchko M,Lovat L,Murray C,Mealing S,Smart H,Haidry R

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fibromyalgia (FM) is characterized by persistent and widespread pain and often associated with other symptoms and comorbidities. Thus, FM patients seek care from multiple physician specialties. This study compared prescribing patterns, patient-reported outcomes (PROs), healthcare resource use (HRU), and dire...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： McNett M,Goldenberg D,Schaefer C,Hufstader M,Baik R,Chandran A,Zlateva G

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-blind, crossover study was carried out in 31 patients with rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis who suffered from insomnia which was considered to be caused primarily by their disease. Patients received 7-day courses of 400 mg chlormezanone, 200 mg chlormezanone and placebo in a pre-determined random order....

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Wojtulewski JA,Walter J

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-blind trial was carried out in 60 elderly patients with osteoarthritis of the knee or hip to compare the efficacy and tolerability of treatment with tiaprofenic acid and indomethacin. Patients received either 600 mg tiaprofenic acid or 100 mg indomethacin daily for 3 months. The results of assessments made ev...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Meurice J

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal management of hypertension has been shown to reduce the risk of stroke. In recent years, newer classes of antihypertensive such as the angiotensin II (Ang II) antagonists have become available. Results from the Losartan Intervention for Endpoint reduction in hypertension (LIFE) study suggest the utility of thi...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Ferrario CM

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discussions on the healthy volunteer in clinical investigation do not attempt to define normality. In 34 healthy volunteers, 1653 biochemical and haematological tests were performed. The incidence of abnormal results was 11%. Only 4 subjects had all tests within normal limits and when these repeated only 1 subject sti...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Joubert P,Pannall P

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A proactive, multifactorial intervention strategy incorporating single-pill amlodipine/atorvastatin (SPAA) (5-10/10 mg up-titrated to 5-10/20 mg, where approved) is more effective than physician's usual care (UC) for reducing calculated 10 year coronary heart disease (CHD) risk, in patients with hypertension ...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Hradec J,Zamorano J,Sutradhar S

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Previous systematic reviews and meta-analyses of treatments in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) derived their findings from either placebo-controlled studies only or separately from head-to-head and comparative studies. The purpose of this study is to compare annualized relapse rates (ARR) of fi...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Roskell NS,Zimovetz EA,Rycroft CE,Eckert BJ,Tyas DA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomized double-blind antacid-controlled study was carried out to investigate the speed of onset of relief from dyspeptic pain with a novel, chewable formulation of cimetidine in 80 patients with persistent dyspepsia. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were chosen to identify patients with an acid-related dyspeptic ...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Parr SN

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The European Forsteo Observational Study (EFOS) study was primarily designed to assess fracture incidence, degree of pain, health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and compliance in women prescribed teriparatide in a community setting. This report describes the design of the study and characteristics of the pat...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Rajzbaum G,Jakob F,Karras D,Ljunggren O,Lems WF,Langdahl BL,Fahrleitner-Pammer A,Walsh JB,Gibson A,Tynan AJ,Marin F

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a series of studies on body fluid, electrolytes and diuretics are discussed. The findings to date indicate that the sex difference between mean potassium plasma levels in men and women is preserved into old age. Contrary to previous suggestions, there would appear to be no transient self-correcting hypo...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： McCarthy ST

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND SCOPE:Whether generic drug products are truly therapeutically identical and interchangeable with their innovator counterparts is still a matter of debate. This review discusses the controversies related to the criteria for bioequivalence and therapeutic equivalence. These concerns are illustrated by usin...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Meredith PA

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:As an ever widening array of anti-hyperglycemic agents are now available, the effect of these drugs on lipids is increasingly complex and controversial. The present meta-analysis was designed to clarify the effect of a dual combination of noninsulin anti-hyperglycemic agents on lipids in type 2 diabetes. MET...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Dai X,Wang H,Jing Z,Fu P

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is the involuntary loss of urine associated with physical activities such as running, jumping, or lifting, or with sneezing and coughing. For many patients it can be a very bothersome symptom, causing social isolation, loss of self-esteem, and increased expenses. Although there is cur...

journal_title：Current medical research and opinion

authors： Viktrup L,Bump RC

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00