Telegraph.co.ukMepolizumab almost halves exacerbations in patients with severe asthmaMedical XpressAfter a year of treatment, the rate of clinically significant exacerbations—defined as episodes requiring oral corticosteroids, admission or visit to e…
TAIN project aims to optimise treatment for babies with adrenal insufficiencyNews-Medical.netA European Union grant, awarded to the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with pharmaceutical Diurnal Ltd and partne…
Inflamed skin and muscles may require more than steroidsChicago TribuneInitial treatment typically includes high doses of corticosteroids for 4 to 8 weeks, followed by a gradual reduction in dosage. For persons requiring chronic or high doses of cortic…
The Medicine Cabinet-Ask the Harvard Experts: Inflamed skin and muscles may …Chicago TribuneInitial treatment typically includes high doses of corticosteroids for 4 to 8 weeks, followed by a gradual reduction in dosage. For persons requiring chronic …
Drug-eluting stents cleared for diabetes patientsNews-Medical.netIndeed, there was an 87% probability that everolimus-eluting stents were more efficacious than the other stents analyzed, which included sirolimus-eluting stents, paclitaxel-eluting stent…
Grapefruit juice 'boosts cancer drugs' claimNursing TimesThis headline is based on an early clinical trial investigating the effect of grapefruit juice on the ability to treat terminally ill cancer patients successfully with a drug called sirol…
Everolimus-eluting stents perform best in diabeticsTheHeart.OrgDr Sripal Bangalore (New York University, NY) and colleagues analyzed 42 trials comparing four major types of DES—sirolimus, paclitaxel, everolimus, and zotarolimus—with each other and …
Grapefruit juice boosts effect of cancer drugJerusalem PostIn a study published in August in Clinical Cancer Research, they show that eight ounces a day of grapefruit juice can slow the body's metabolism of a drug called sirolimus, which has been a…
BellevisionGrapefruit juice ups efficacy of cancer drugBellevisionSirolimus was the first of a series of drugs, known as mTOR inhibitors, that were developed to prevent rejection of transplanted organs but that also have anti-cancer effects. Patients w…
Breast cancer drug hailed as major advanceTheChronicleHerald.caThe drug everolimus (brand name Afinitor, from drug manufacturer Novartis) has been approved as a treatment for postmenopausal women with advanced hormone receptor-positive, or HR+, breast …