Cefixime. A review of its therapeutic efficacy in lower respiratory tract infections.

abstract：:Alirocumab (Praluent®) is a fully human monoclonal antibody developed by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi that has been approved in the US as an adjunct to diet and maximally tolerated statin therapy for the treatment of adults with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (HeFH) or clinical atherosclerotic car...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Markham A

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of unopposed postmenopausal estrogen therapy protects against coronary heart disease (CHD) in women. This is mediated, in part, through beneficial effects on lipid and lipoprotein metabolism. Fewer data are available with regard to CHD risk reduction when a progesterone is required in addition to estrog...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Kafonek SD

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Losartan/hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) [Hyzaar(R)] is a fixed-dose combination of the angiotensin II receptor antagonist (angiotensin receptor blocker [ARB]) losartan and the thiazide diuretic HCTZ. It is indicated for the treatment of hypertension (including as initial therapy in severe hypertension) and for stroke risk...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Keating GM

更新日期：2009-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine-derived lung surfactant (PLS; Curosurf) has shown efficacy in neonatal respiratory distress syndrome. PLS consists of phospholipids, mainly dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine, the primary surface-active agent of natural lung surfactant, and pulmonary surfactant-associated proteins which facilitate spreading and ad...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Wiseman LR,Bryson HM

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a major cause of morbidity, mortality, and healthcare expenditure. In the United States, approximately 0.1 % of the population experiences an initial VTE event each year. Anticoagulation therapy is the cornerstone of acute VTE treatment and for prevention of recurrent VTE events. Conven...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Dobesh PP,Fanikos J

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new therapeutic options available to clinicians treating dyslipidaemia in the last decade have enabled effective treatment for many patients. The development of the HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins) have been a major advance in that they possess multiple pharmacological effects (pleiotropic effects) resulting...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Chong PH,Bachenheimer BS

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the Helsinki Heart Study, a 5-year primary prevention placebo-controlled study involving 4081 dyslipidaemic men (aged 40 to 55 years), was to investigate if increasing high density lipoprotein (HDL)-cholesterol plasma levels and decreasing low density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol levels would reduce the in...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Frick MH,Manninen V,Huttunen JK,Heinonen OP,Tenkanen L,Mänttäri M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Irinotecan (CPT-II) is a semisynthetic derivative of camptothecin. It and other camptothecin analogues/derivatives appear to exert their antitumour activity by binding to topoisomerase I. The active metabolite of irinotecan, 7-ethyl-10-hydroxycamptothecin (SN-38), has demonstrated potent growth inhibition of human col...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Wiseman LR,Markham A

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transdermal nicotine delivery systems are a cigarette smoking cessation aid designed to deliver nicotine into the systemic circulation via the skin. The partial replacement of plasma nicotine, which would have otherwise been obtained from cigarettes, reduces the severity of nicotine withdrawal symptoms, and so allows ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Palmer KJ,Buckley MM,Faulds D

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zimelidine is a new antidepressant, which is structurally unrelated to the tricyclic and tetracyclic antidepressants. The pharmacological profile of zimelidine is different to that of other antidepressants in that it appears to owe the major part of its activity to the inhibition of serotonin uptake within the central...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Heel RC,Morley PA,Brogden RN,Carmine AA,Speight TM,Avery GS

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During recent decades, undeniable progress has been made with regard to the management of arterial hypertension. Larger numbers of patients are aware they have hypertension, receive treatment and benefit from this therapy. Furthermore, significant reductions have been observed in morbidity and mortality resulting from...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Krivitzky A,Nguyen G,Gaudouen Y,Legrand M,Cohen R

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glatiramer acetate is a synthetic analogue of the multiple sclerosis (MS)-associated antigen, myelin basic protein. It is indicated in the EU, US and many other countries to reduce the frequency of relapses in patients with relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS), and for the treatment of patients who have experienced a well de...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Carter NJ,Keating GM

更新日期：2010-08-20 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：:General anaesthesia is the reversible depression of central nervous system function. There is still no agreement over what constitutes depth of anaesthesia, and the clinical anaesthetist must thus titrate drug input according to clinical signs (heart rate, blood pressure, somatic movement, autonomic responses). The po...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Sear JW

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:25 years have elapsed since the introduction of the first effective oral diuretic, chlorothiazide. Diuretics are now amongst the most widely prescribed drugs in clinical practice worldwide. Availability of these drugs has not only brought therapeutic benefit to countless numbers of patients but it has at the same time...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Lant A

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The lowering of cholesterol concentrations in individuals at high risk of cardiovascular disease improves outcome. No study, however, has assessed benefits of cholesterol lowering in the primary prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD) in hypertensive patients who are not conventionally deemed dyslipidaemi...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Sever PS,Dahlöf B,Poulter NR,Wedel H,Beevers G,Caulfield M,Collins R,Kjeldsen SE,Kristinsson A,McInnes GT,Mehlsen J,Nieminen M,O'Brien E,Ostergren J,ASCOT Investigators.

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhaled mometasone furoate (Asmanex) is a synthetic corticosteroid indicated for the first-line maintenance prophylactic therapy of persistent asthma in adults and adolescents. It is formulated for delivery via a breath-actuated dry powder inhaler (DPI) [Twisthaler].Inhaled mometasone furoate delivered by DPI is effec...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： McCormack PL,Plosker GL

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cidofovir is a nucleotide analogue which inhibits viral DNA polymerase and is effective against human cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. It is phosphorylated to its active form by cellular enzymes. With the long intracellular half-life of its metabolites, cidofovir can be administered weekly during induction and every o...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Lea AP,Bryson HM

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the availability of effective pharmacological treatments to aid the control of blood pressure, the global rate of uncontrolled blood pressure remains high. As such, further measures are required to improve blood pressure control. Recently, several national and international guidelines for the management of hyp...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Kjeldsen S,Feldman RD,Lisheng L,Mourad JJ,Chiang CE,Zhang W,Wu Z,Li W,Williams B

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Dofetilide is a 'pure' class III antiarrhythmic agent which has demonstrated efficacy in the conversion of atrial fibrillation or flutter to sinus rhythm and the maintenance of sinus rhythm. By blocking the rapid component of the cardiac delayed rectifier potassium current (I(Kr)), dofetilide prolongs the ca...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： McClellan KJ,Markham A

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is associated with a variable disease course and response to therapy. Some infected patients may develop little or no disease for 30 to 40 years, whereas others will develop cirrhosis within 5 to 10 years. Both host and viral factors influence the rate of disease progression. The mana...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Thomas HC,Booth J,Brown J

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An acute thrombus at the site of an atherosclerotic obstruction is the usual cause of myocardial infarction. Thrombolytic therapy is an exciting new therapy for reducing the extent of myocardial infarction by lysing intracoronary clots. Such therapy has now been widely applied by: prolonged intravenous infusion of str...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Spann JF,Sherry S

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a challenging clinical complication of liver dysfunction with a wide spectrum of neuropsychiatric abnormalities that range from mild disturbances in cognitive function and consciousness to coma and death. The pathogenesis of HE in cirrhosis is complex and multifactorial, but a key role i...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Phongsamran PV,Kim JW,Cupo Abbott J,Rosenblatt A

更新日期：2010-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Delayed gastric emptying, gastroparesis, is one of the sequelae of diabetes mellitus. Symptoms may include postprandial nausea, epigastric pain, bloating, vomiting, early satiety and unpredictable blood sugar fluctuations. Nowadays diagnosis is made by the measurement of gastric emptying with a radionuclide test meal....

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Drenth JP,Engels LG

更新日期：1992-10-01 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：:The relationship between bodyweight and arterial pressure was first discovered early this century. More recently, epidemiological studies have confirmed the correlation between bodyweight and blood pressure in both adults and children. Serum cholesterol levels, blood glucose levels, uric acid levels and blood pressure...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Martínez FJ,Sancho-Rof JM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of drugs are available that act fairly specifically as "mild" analgesics, although this description by no means implies that their clinical effectiveness is limited to the relief of slight pain and trivial disability. They are effective by mouth and their action is mediated peripherally. Among the possible me...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Parkhouse J

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovulation induction is the most common medical intervention for the treatment of infertility. Clomifene is generally the first treatment choice for patients with amenorrhoea, unless there is profound hypothalamic deficiency. When clomifene fails to induce ovulation, menotropins (human menopausal gonadotrophin) or gona...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Collins JA,Hughes EG

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review focuses on the biochemical and clinical aspects of methylation in neuropsychiatric disorders and the clinical potential of their treatment with ademetionine (S-adenosylmethionine; SAMe). SAMe is required in numerous transmethylation reactions involving nucleic acids, proteins, phospholipids, amines and oth...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Bottiglieri T,Hyland K,Reynolds EH

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platinum-based doublet chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab is the standard of care for the initial management of advanced and metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) without a targetable molecular abnormality. However, the majority of patients with NSCLC will ultimately develop resistance to initial platinu...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Barnfield PC,Ellis PM

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00