Although great progress has been made in ITP management during the last decade, there are still unmet needs with regard to the short- and long-term efficacy in many relapsed or refractory cases. A multicenter retrospective cohort study indicated that patients who failed splenectomy, rituximab, romip...
Biosimilars can also be dispensed by a pharmacist in place of another biological product if a physician or other healthcare professional specifically prescribes the biosimilar product by name. Which interchangeable biosimilars are approved in the U.S.? Reference products and their interchangeable biosimil...
Not only does a push for a chickenpox vaccine protect a child and his or her classmates, it can also protect grandparents who may not have had chickenpox. Protecting the elderly is also the idea behind another vaccination that many of us line up for each winter: the flu shot. Between 12,...
Most people's COVID-19 symptoms last between 13 to 38 days with the median being 20 days. The first week of illness symptoms are usually mild, after this time patients start feeling worse with more severe symptoms peaking on average on day 10. After 3 weeks 66% of patients were back to...
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Many signs of alcohol abuse can appear in the short term, including: Drinking larger amounts of alcohol than previously consumed Spending more time, money and energy working on getting and using alcohol Spending more time being hungover and recovering from alcohol’s effects ...
Many studies on gDST have been conducted. In a systematic review, Kadura et al. reported the genetic mutations related to resistance to BDQ, LZD, CLO, and DMD [37]. However, the limited number of resistant isolates makes the validation between gDST and pDST difficult. An amplicon deep seque...
Several studies comparing infection rates between wounds treated with topical antibiotics and petrolatum-based products showed no difference [103,107,108,109,110]. Therefore, Saco et al. [111] proposed petrolatum-based products to be used instead of topical antibiotics in the prevention of ...
Exactly. Families have to weigh many considerations when they seek care for a child, including the stress and expense of traveling to another city with a sick child and staying for days or possibly weeks, as well as an insurer's willingness to pay for care at a hospital outside its ap...
However, there was also large and substantial between-person variability in average levels of alertness. Our second experimental question sought to explain why this is the case i.e., why do some individuals have a higher level of overall alertness “set-point” common across all days? A ...