The attenuated androgen, stanozolol, is well tolerated and highly effective for the long-term treatment and prevention of hereditary angioedema attacks when patients are monitored closely with routine clinical, biochemical and radiographic assessment and the dosage is adjusted according to a dynamic protocol. Reuters Health Information
The fraction of exhaled nitric oxide measurement with a portable analyzer was an effective tool to screen for asthma in young adults. Medscape Medical News
This Original Article explores the influence of oseltamivir treatment on central nervous system (CNS)-related and neuropsychiatric events in adults, children, and adolescents with influenza. Medscape General Medicine
R.H. Barry Sample, PhD, Director of Science and Technology at Quest Diagnostics in Atlanta, Georgia, explains trends of illicit drug use by American workers in 2007 as shown by workplace drug testing. Medscape General Medicine
Among adolescents and adults with rhinitis, about one-fourth of cases are not attributable to allergies, results of a Danish study indicate. Reuters Health Information
Was the Great Plague of Athens (ca. 430 BC) the first recorded influenza pandemic? Was the SARS outbreak of 2003 the latest warning? Could avian influenza H5N1 virus usher the next influenza pandemic? Medscape Infectious Diseases
Physicians tend to underestimate the survival probability of patients hospitalized for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma, and as a result, many patients may be inappropriately denied admission to intensive care units for intubation, investigators report in BMJ Online First for November 2. Reuters Health Information
Oncologists are reportedly not recommending key vaccines, assuming primary care or other docs are taking care of it, and patients are slipping through the cracks. Medscape Medical News
Infants breastfed by mothers using inhaled budesonide (Pulmicort Turbuhaler, AstraZeneca) for asthma are not exposed to any important level of the drug, according to Swedish researchers. Reuters Health Information
