The US Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents (1) recommend treating patients during primary HIV infection. Can treatment during primary HIV infection lead to control of disease without drugs? And Ciprofloxacin--one of a class of antibiotics called qui...
Antiviral drugs are medicines that decrease the ability offluviruses to reproduce. When used as directed, antiviral drugs may help reduce the duration offlu symptomsin otherwise healthy children and adults and may reduce the severity of commonflu symptoms. When Are Antiviral Drugs Recommended? Antivir...
Shorten the duration of fever and illness symptoms; Reduce the risk for complications from influenza, including otitis media in young children and pneumonia requiring antibiotics in adults; and Reduce the risk for death among hospitalized patients. Clinical benefit is greatest when antiviral drugs are ...
Neuraminidase inhibitors for preventing and treating influenza in healthy adults (Cochrane Review)Symptoms include fever, headache and cough. Serious complications such as pneumonia can also occur. This review of trials found that neuraminidase inhibitors (Nls) such as zanamivir and oseltamivir are ...
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Hwang YJ, Alexander GC, An H, et al. Risk of hospital ization and death associated with pimavanserin use in older adults with Parkinson’s disase.Neurology. 2021;97(13). doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000012601 PubMedGoogle Scholar Brown JD, Cicali B, Henriksen C, et al. Comparative pharmacovigila...
The FDA previously approved Cymbalta for the treatment of depression, generalized anxiety disorder, and diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain. The agency approved Cymbalta for the management of fibromyalgia in adults in 2008. Two similar medications, called Lyrica (pregabalin) and Savella (milnacipran), ...
Promising new weight loss medication in short supply and often not covered by insurance | 60 Minutes13:24 Almost half of American adults have obesity, a condition that was a fraction of that just 40 years ago and scientists don't agree on what's caused the dramatic increase. What everyone ...
Racemic baclofen has been used to treat spasticity and has a well-defined safety profile in adults and children. There is no rationale for prescribing baclofen to children with disorders of brain development. In the patients with fragile X syndrome, doses of racemic baclofen were titrated from a...
In embodiments, pipradrol, or a derivative or analogue thereof is administered at doses of 0.2 mg to 1 mg in infants or 1-20 mg in adults, once daily. Methods of treating developmental disorders by administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of pipradrol or a ...