Inadequate Therapy

Aging Ergonomics: A Field with Inadequate Notice

Inadequate housing and health

For many years, the housing environment has been acknowledged as one of the main settings that affect human health. Living and housing conditions are the basis of many factors influencing residential health. Still, to date there is no commonly agreed upon definition of ‘healthy housing’, and there are still major gaps in the knowledge on how housing conditions may affect health. Epidemiological...

Laparoscopic appendectomy for acute appendicitis: How to discourage surgeons using inadequate therapy

Acute appendicitis (AA) develops in a progressive and irreversible manner, even if the clinical course of AA can be temporarily modified by intentional medications. Reliable and real-time diagnosis of AA can be made based on findings of the white blood cell count and enhanced computed tomography. Emergent laparoscopic appendectomy (LA) is considered as the first therapeutic choice for AA. Inter...

Tocilizumab in JIA patients who have inadequate response to anti-tumour necrosis factor therapy

Methods All patients who received TCZ due to refractory disease were included. All patients had exhibited anti-TNF primary or secondary failure. Data were retrieved from the Rheumatology Section data base. TCZ was administered intravenously at a dose of 8 mg/kg for patients > 30 Kg, 12 mg/Kg for patients < 30 Kg every 2 weeks. Efficacy endpoints included improvement (ACR Pedi30), disappearance ...

Reasons for inadequate utilization of cognitive-behavioral therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Sir: Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has repeatedly been found to be effective in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), 1 and the Expert Consensus Guidelines for the Treatment of OCD 2 recommend CBT as a first-line treatment of adult OCD along with serotonin reuptake–inhibiting drugs. However, many OCD sufferers never receive adequate CBT treatment; for example, Mancebo et al...