New Muscle Relaxants: Are They Likely to Cause Anaphylaxis?

Food Taxes: How Likely Are Likely Effects?

New developments in nondepolarizing muscle relaxants.

Anesthesiologists perceive that the ideal muscle relaxant is not yet available, particularly the nondepolarizing one with a rapid onset and a short duration of action. There is also a need for relaxants with different durations of action but which would be free from side effects. During the process of this development several new compounds have been tested and four have reached an advanced stat...

Toxic Christmas and New Year Holiday Plants...or Are They?

Background: Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima), holly (Ilex opaca) and mistletoe (Phoradendron flavescens) adorn homes during the Christmas and New Year holiday season and create the potential for curious children to sample their colorful leaves and enticing berries. This study was aimed to review the American Association of Poison Control Centers National Poison Data System (AAPCC NPDS) to des...

Minimizing quinolone resistance: are the new agents more or less likely to cause resistance?

The introduction of oral antimicrobial agents with broad-spectrum activity extending to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other multiply antibiotic-resistant pathogens made the fluoroquinolones an attractive choice for empirical therapy for an extensive range of conditions. As a consequence there has been heavy and indiscriminate use of these agents ...

Use of muscle relaxants.