Currently Available Plasma Separators and Fractionators

Making plasma derived medicines available

Limitations of currently available Chagas disease chemotherapy.

1 Rev Esp Quimioter 2012;25 (1):1-3 post-treatment, which was deemed to reflect the effectiveness of the treatment to clear parasites better than serology. Moreover, PCR allowed treatment failure to be ratified – in our case in 6.9% of the patients, who shifted to positive at the end of the follow-up period. Although PCR is a sensitive and specific tool for the early detection of the parasite’s...

A Review of Currently Available Vaccines

THE INFLUENZA VIRUS Antigenic Changes To maintain its virulence within a population, the influenza virus continuously evolves. Two types of antigenic changes can occur. Antigenic drift results from the accumulation of point mutations in the HA and NA genes. When drift occurs, seasonal epidemics can arise; this is why the influenza vaccine is updated on an annual basis. Antigenic shift is the ap...

A Review of Currently Available Fenofibrate and Fenofibric Acid Formulations

Fenofibrate is a third-generation fibric acid derivative indicated as a monotherapy to reduce elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, total cholesterol, triglycerides, and apolipoprotein B; to increase high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in patients with primary hyperlipidemia or mixed dyslipidemia; and to reduce triglycerides in patients with severe hypertriglyceridemia. In this review,...

Detection of ovulation, a review of currently available methods

The ability to identify the precise time of ovulation is important for women who want to plan conception or practice contraception. Here, we review the current literature on various methods for detecting ovulation including a review of point-of-care device technology. We incorporate an examination of methods to detect ovulation that have been developed and practiced for decades and analyze the ...