Epidemiology of high blood pressure and obesity.

abstract：:The Japanese encephalitis vaccine IC-51 (IXIARO) is an inactivated virus (strain SA(14)-14-2) that is manufactured in cultured Vero cells and is currently being developed for preventive vaccination against the Japanese encephalitis virus. black triangle Administration of IXIARO as a two-dose treatment in healthy adult...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Duggan ST,Plosker GL

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug treatment for various anorectal conditions has been known since ancient times. Today, modern as well as traditional drugs are being increasingly used in all grades of symptomatic haemorrhoids. These drugs (oral and local) are used as a part of conservative management or as an adjuvant to invasive outpatient proce...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Misra MC,Imlitemsu

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oesophageal cancer is the eighth most common cancer diagnosed worldwide, with almost half a million new cases diagnosed each year. Despite improvements in surgical and radiotherapy techniques and refinements of chemotherapeutic regimens, long-term survival, even from localized oesophageal cancer, remains poor. Surgica...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Bystricky B,Okines AF,Cunningham D

更新日期：2011-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Scleroderma or systemic sclerosis is a rare condition with many clinical manifestations including Raynaud's phenomenon. As with many other rarely encountered diseases, drug therapy for scleroderma is often empirical with little evidence in the form of randomised controlled trials to aid drug choice. Raynaud's phenomen...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Leighton C

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novo Nordisk has developed a subcutaneous formulation of semaglutide (Ozempic®), a modified human glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) analogue, for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus. It has been developed using Novo Nordisk's proprietary protein-acylation technology, and is administered using an injection device. ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Dhillon S

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pomalidomide (Imnovid®; Pomalyst®), an analogue of thalidomide, is an immunomodulatory agent, with several mechanisms of action (both direct and indirect) thought to be involved in its anti-myeloma activity. Oral pomalidomide is available in several countries for use in combination with low-dose dexamethasone in adult...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Hoy SM

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common health problem encountered in international travellers to topical and subtropical areas is diarrhoea. Even though it is not a life-threatening condition, it may influence deeply the quality of a vacation or the success of a business trip. The majority of cases of travellers' diarrhoea are due to bacter...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Caeiro JP,DuPont HL

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our knowledge of the mechanisms of platelet-mediated thrombosis has increased dramatically over the last 40 years. This increased understanding has identified treatment strategies for acute coronary syndromes (ACS) by targeting key mediators of platelet activation and aggregation processes. Aspirin (acetylsalicylic ac...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Angiolillo DJ

更新日期：2012-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Locally advanced prostate cancer (LAPC) is a heterogeneous entity usually embracing T3-4 and/or pelvic lymph-node-positive disease in the absence of established metastases. Outcomes for LAPC with single therapies have traditionally been poor, leading to the investigation of adjuvant therapies. Prostate cancer is a hor...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Martin JM,Supiot S,Berthold DR

更新日期：2011-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Etoposide is one of the most active agents for the therapy of lymphomas. Oral etoposide has proven to be active in and clearly beneficial for patients with previously treated lymphomas. The optimal dose and schedule of oral etoposide for use in combination chemotherapy are still uncertain, but low daily doses (50 to 1...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Greco FA

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Ceftriaxone is a parenteral third-generation cephalosporin with a long elimination half-life which permits once-daily administration. It has good activity against Streptococcus pneumoniae, methicillin-susceptible staphylococci, Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis and Neisseria spp. Although active ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Lamb HM,Ormrod D,Scott LJ,Figgitt DP

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) was formally defined in 1988 to describe a syndrome of severe and disabling fatigue of uncertain aetiology associated with a variable number of somatic and/or psychological symptoms. CFS has been reported in most industrialised countries and is most prevalent in women aged between 20...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Blondel-Hill E,Shafran SD

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent developments in diagnosis and therapy of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection have helped to reduce CMV-associated mortality following organ transplantation. However, CMV is still associated with significant morbidity in recipients of an allogeneic stem cell or solid-organ transplant. The clinical symptoms of active...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Hebart H,Kanz L,Jahn G,Einsele H

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a noncomparative trial, 73 adults with acute sinusitis confirmed by x-ray received cefixime 400mg once daily for approximately 10 days. At the end of treatment, 60 patients (82%) were cured, 2 (2.7%) had improved and 7 (9.6%) had failed therapy; 4 patients were not evaluable. No relapses were observed at follow-up....

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Gehanno P,Boucot I,Berche P,Uhlrich J

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bevacizumab is a recombinant, humanized anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) monoclonal antibody that neutralizes the biological activity of VEGF and inhibits tumour angiogenesis. In two pivotal, well designed, phase III, clinical trials (GOG-0218 and ICON7) in women with advanced epithelial ovarian, fallopi...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Dhillon S

更新日期：2012-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Sitagliptin (Januvia, Glactiv(R), Tesavel(R)) is a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor indicated for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Oral sitagliptin as monotherapy or combination therapy was generally well tolerated and improved glycaemic control in well designed clinical trials in patients with type 2 diabet...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Dhillon S

更新日期：2010-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:An enteral suspension (ES)/intestinal gel formulation of levodopa/carbidopa (hereafter referred to as levodopa/carbidopa ES) [Duodopa® (EU); Duopa™ (USA)] has been developed to overcome the fluctuating plasma levodopa concentrations associated with oral levodopa/carbidopa formulations. In various countries, including ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Hoy SM

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lanthanum carbonate is a novel, non-aluminium, non-calcium phosphate binding agent that forms a water-insoluble compound, lanthanum phosphate, in the gut. Lanthanum carbonate (elemental lanthanum 375-3000 mg/day) reduced serum phosphorus levels compared with placebo in two randomised, double-blind, multicentre 4-week ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Swainston Harrison T,Scott LJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus has become the most common single cause of end-stage renal disease in the Western world. Diabetic nephropathy, as most forms of renal disease leading to end-stage renal failure, is frequently complicated by arterial hypertension. In type 1 diabetes mellitus the reported excess in arterial hypertensio...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Viberti G

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of different formulations of glyceryl trinitrate, isosorbide dinitrate, isosorbide 5-mononitrate and isosorbide 2-mononitrate are reviewed. ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Kampmann JP

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzbromarone1 is a benzofuran derivative which lowers serum urate and increases urinary urate excretion in normal, hyperuricaemic and gouty subjects. In open short- and long-term studies benzbromarone reduced serum uric acid levels by one-third to one-half and maintained its effectiveness for periods of up to 8 years...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Heel RC,Brogden RN,Speight TM,Avery GS

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rilpivirine is an orally administered, non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor that is a component drug in combination therapy for antiretroviral-naive patients with HIV-1 infection. The randomized, double-blind, double-dummy, multinational ECHO and THRIVE trials in antiretroviral-naive adult patients with HIV-...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Sanford M

更新日期：2012-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiviral therapy has in the past met with limited success and only a few antiviral drugs have been available. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic has created an urgent need for the development of antiviral therapy against this infection. HIV replication offers several targets for inhibitory compounds, the...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Sandström E,Oberg B

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are several first choices for the treatment of mild and moderate hypertension. The selection of a drug may be influenced by concomitant pathology, with positive indications for particular drugs, e.g. coexistent angina, indicating use of a beta-receptor blocking drug or calcium antagonist; fluid retention indicat...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Prichard BN

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of inappropriate signals from the volume-regulation system and a reduction in renal blood flow, the kidney is not able to prevent sodium and water retention in chronic congestive heart failure (CHF). A brief summary of normal renal function and renal involvement in CHF is given and a study of renal function in...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Ljungman S,Laragh JH,Cody RJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardiovascular and cardiorenal disease continuum comprises the transition from cardiovascular risk factors to endothelial dysfunction and atherosclerosis, to clinical complications such as myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke, to the development of persistent target-organ damage and, ultimately, to chronic conges...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Werner C,Pöss J,Böhm M

更新日期：2010-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Echinocandins are a new class of antifungal agents with a novel mechanism of action (interference with fungal cell wall synthesis). Caspofungin (Cancidas), Caspofungin MSD) is the first echinocandin to be approved and is administered intravenously. Caspofungin 50 mg/day had similar efficacy to intravenous fluconazole ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Keating G,Figgitt D

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-associated wasting, characterised by progressive loss of lean body mass and bodyweight, remains a significant problem in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Loss of body cell mass, a component of lean body mass, is associated with decreased survival. Somatropin (recombinant human growth hormon...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Goldsmith DR,Wagstaff AJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current challenge facing clinicians is to develop pharmacotherapies that move beyond the treatment of symptoms towards a new agenda in cardiovascular therapeutics that includes interventions to actually prevent the development of end-stage coronary heart disease. The development of new strategies to alter the natu...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Gibbons GH

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of surgical prophylaxis is to prevent wound infections associated with surgery. The rates of wound infections vary according to the procedure: less than 3 infections per 100 for clean procedures; up to 4 per 100 for clean-contaminated procedures; and up to 9 per 100 for contaminated procedures. Surgical ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Dellamonica P,Bernard E

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00