At what age do bronchodilator drugs work?

At what age do bronchodilator drugs work?

Using a modification of the forced oscillation technique we have measured respiratory resistance before and after nebulised salbutamol therapy in 32 wheezing children aged 7 months to 3 years 7 monts. 12 of the children were also studied in a total body plethysmograph. No child under 18 months of aged showed a greater than 5% fall in resistance or any fall in thoracic gas volume. In contrast, 1...

How do psychiatric drugs work?

Multitasking at work : Do firms get what they pay for ?

To align employees’ interests with the firm’s goals, employers often use performance-based pay, but designing such a compensation plan is challenging because performance is typically multifaceted. For example, a sales employee should be incentivized to sell the company’s product, but a focus on current sales without rewarding the salespeople according to the quality of the product and/or custom...

What to do if you are injured at work.

Two-thirds of small animal vets and over half of farm vets were injured at work in the past 12 months, according to BVA's 'Voice of the Veterinary Profession' survey. Paul Beevers of the BVA legal helpline explains the steps to take if you have an accident at work.

What do we GANE with age?

Mather and colleagues provide an impressive cross-level account of how arousal levels modulate behavior, and they support it with data ranging from receptor pharmacology to measures of cognitive function. Here we consider two related questions: (1) Why should the brain engage in different arousal levels? and (2) What are the predicted consequences of age-related changes in norepinephrine signal...