Antibiotics are prescribed for approximately 82 percent of acute sinus infections and nearly 70 percent of chronic sinus infections, despite the fact that viruses are by far the most frequent cause of this condition, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Understanding why other bacteria become resistant to antibiotics could hold the key to understanding why TB takes so long to cure, say researchers in a policy paper in PLoS Medicine.
Shire plc today announced the availability of LIALDATM (mesalamine) with MMXTM Technology, indicated for the induction of remission in patients with active, mild to moderate ulcerative colitis (UC), a type of inflammatory bowel disease. LIALDA is the first and only FDA-approved once daily oral formulation of mesalamine. The US Food and Drug Administration approved LIALDA on Jan. 16, 2007.
The parasite that leads to sleeping sickness can be lulled to sleep itself using a newly discovered pathway, according to research published online this week in EMBO reports. Trypanosoma brucei is a parasite that causes sleeping sickness resulting in neurological damage and death.
For the first time, the IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis will be held in Asia. The congress will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 3-7, 2008.The second announcement for the IOF WCO was released today, and is available online.
Scientists at the University of Manchester believe injections of tiny sponge-like particles could provide an alternative to major surgery in the treatment of chronic lower back pain.
Stage, screen and film actress Delta Burke is leading the BYETTA Let’s Talk campaign, sponsored by Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMLN) and Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY).
The antidepressant duloxetine, at a once-daily dose of 60 mg, significantly reduced non-specific pain and emotional symptoms associated with depression in a new, eight-week, placebo-controlled study of 327 adult patients with at least moderate pain and major depression. The results were presented today at the 15th European Congress of Psychiatry (AEP) in Madrid, Spain.
A new photographic exhibit, called ?The Image of MS? has been unveiled at the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome to dispel myths about multiple sclerosis (MS), challenge public perceptions about the disease, and encourage those with symptoms to seek treatment as early as possible.
World diabetes leaders left the Global Changing Diabetes Leadership Forum, which took place in New York City on 13?14 March 2007, with a sense of activism to return home to start changing diabetes.