News tagged with corticosteroid therapy
Plavix may be treatment for dogs at risk of thromboembolic disease
Companion animals that have a long-term need for anticoagulant drug therapies may soon find help in a top-selling antiplatelet drug marketed to humans: clopidogrel, commonly known by the trade-name Plavix.
Jul 14, 2010 |
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Prednisolone not benficial in most cases of community-acquired pneumonia
Patients hospitalized with mild to moderate community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) should not be routinely prescribed prednisolone, a corticosteroid, as it is associated with a recurrence of symptoms after its withdrawal, according ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 23, 2010 |
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Intensive insulin therapy for septic shock patients does not show survival benefit
Treating adults with septic shock with intensive insulin therapy to counter elevated blood glucose levels associated with corticosteroid therapy did not result in a reduced risk of in-hospital death, compared to patients ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 26, 2010 |
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'Difficult-to-treat asthma' may be due to difficult-to-treat patients
Difficult-to-treat asthma often may have more to do with patients who do not take their medication as instructed than ineffective medication, according to researchers in Northern Ireland.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 23, 2009 |
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