Tag: Prescription Drugs

Progression-free survival significantly improved in unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma versus TACE alone

Reduction in incidence of positive PPD screening seen among women with prenatal depression undergoing elective C-section

Early oral antimicrobial therapy noninferior to intravenous standard therapy for low-risk bloodstream infection

Harms include increased risks for amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA)-edema, ARIA-hemorrhage, and symptomatic ARIA-edema

EDS-FLU improved symptoms, sinus opacification, acute exacerbations in two randomized trials in adults with chronic rhinosinusitis

No reason other than mild symptoms given for almost half of patients at high risk for progression who were not offered treatment

In base case analysis, 178 pregnancies were exposed to isotretinoin, with a doubling of the number per year during the study period

Risk increased for severe and very severe hypocalcemia for female dialysis-dependent Medicare patients aged 65 years or older

Buprenorphine associated with lower risk for malformations, cardiac malformations, oral clefts, and clubfoot

Authors say increase driven by off-label uses for chronic pain with lack of evidence supporting use