Tag: Prescription Drugs
Inappropriate Med Use High in Cognitively Impaired Seniors
Prevalence of potentially inappropriate medication use higher for frail seniors with cognitive impairment
Review: Levetiracetam Best Monotherapy for Partial Seizures
First-line tx sodium valproate tops carbamazepine, topiramate for generalized onset seizures
Are Clinicians Overprescribing Gabapentinoids for Pain?
Non-trivial side effects, no robust evidence for off-label use of gabapentinoids for other types of pain
Meta-Analysis Compares Efficacy of Therapies for Preventing TB
Isoniazid, rifampicin monotherapy, combination therapies can prevent active TB in latent TB infection
More Progress Needed for Hep C Elimination in Country of Georgia
Overall, 84.1 percent of those tested for HCV RNA after treatment had no detectable virus in their blood
Variation in Management for Infants With GERD
Variation in overall utilization of anti-reflux surgery, and in surgical and diagnostic approach
Gene Expression May Predict Response to Methotrexate in RA
Correlations for p21, caspase 3, and RUNX2 with the change in disease activity score of 28 joints
Thyroid Cancer Tied to Regular Thyroxine Use in Hypothyroidism
No significant cancer link for hypothyroidism patients who were irregular thyroxine users
Switching to Generic Eye Meds Could Save Medicare Millions
Medicare is billed more than $1 billion annually for glaucoma treatments alone, researchers say
Memantine Linked to Lower Neuron-Specific Enolase in TBI
Lower serum levels of NSE and Glasgow Coma Scale for patients receiving memantine plus standard tx
