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Roche is Under Pressure Over Its Antiviral Drug Tamiflu; ACE Inhibitors or ARBs for Prediabetics?; Xigris is Approved for Severe Sepsis; ACE Inhibitors Inhibiting Aortic Valve Stenosis?; FDA Actions
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Following an educational campaign promoting hand washing in public places, and observing 6300 people using public restrooms at various locations across the United States, researchers report slow but steady improvement in rates of hand washing. But men are still not as rigorous as women about their personnel hygiene.
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This proof of concept clinical trial intensively studied 4 patients with HIV infection who had plasma levels of HIV RNA below the lower limit of quantification in a standard viral load assay on standard HAART therapy.
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Several randomized, comparative trials have demonstrated the efficacy of ertapenem in the treatment of patients with intraabdominal infections.
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Giardiasis, caused by the waterborne protozoan parasite Giardia lamblia, also known as G. intestinalis, and G. duodenalis, is a common cause of diarrhea worldwide.
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The Ginema study reported by Bucaneve and colleagues recruited for a formal, double-blind, randomized placebo controlled trial of 500 mg/d levofloxacin among 760 patients who were admitted to the hospital and who were at risk of developing neutropenia resulting from treatment of acute leukemia lymphoma or solid tumors.
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ACE Inhibitors or ARBs for Prediabetics?; Xigris is Approved for Severe Sepsis; ACE Inhibitors Inhibiting Aortic Valve Stenosis?; FDA Actions