More medications, fewer pills: Combination medications for the treatment of hypertension

Traditional Persian topical medications for gastrointestinal diseases

Drug delivery across the skin is used for several millennia to ease gastrointestinal (GI) ailments in Traditional Persian Medicine (TPM). TPM topical remedies are generally being applied on the stomach, lower abdomen, lower back and liver to alleviate GI illnesses such as dyspepsia, gastritis, GI ulcers, inflammatory bowel disease, intestinal worms and infections. The aim of the present study i...

Carvedilol: A Promising Drug Combined with Lipid-lowering Medications for Patients with Hypertension and Heart Failure

Background: Statins frequently cause myopathy especially in combination with fibrates, and physical activity is considered a trigger for the muscle disorder. Elevated plasma levels of creatine kinase (CK), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and aldolase, are the main indicators of the severity of myopathy. Carvedilol is commonly used with lipid-lowering drugs in the management of heart failure, hypert...

Medications for the treatment of alcohol dependence.

Treatment of scabies, comparing the different medications

During seven years, our research group conducted a big and multicenter study on comparing different medications with different dosage in the treatment of scabies. This study led to multiple publications in high impact peer reviewed journals. There were some minor errors in the releasing of study results that I want to point out in this letter. In the Alipour et al. [1] study none of 420 patient...

Breastfeeding and Medications

Taking medications during breastfeeding is common and physicians are usually asked about the safety of prescribed medicines, herbal medications, or tobacco and alcohol consumption during lactation. Safety of medications during breastfeeding is related to maternal factors, neonatal factors and the type of medication, In the case of necessity of taking medication for the mother, there are ways to...