Prevention of Eye Disease

Acyclovir for the prevention of recurrent herpes simplex virus eye disease. Herpetic Eye Disease Study Group.

BACKGROUND Long-term treatment with antiviral agents has been shown to prevent recurrences of genital and orofacial herpes simplex virus (HSV) disease, but it is uncertain whether prophylactic treatment can prevent recurrences of ocular HSV disease. METHODS We randomly assigned 703 immunocompetent patients who had had ocular HSV disease within the preceding year to receive 400 mg of acyclovir...

Prevention of Heart Disease by Controlling Risk Factors

For a long period of time some different hypothesis have been published about arteriosclerosis but none of them has discovered the pathogenesis and effective treat­ment of this entity. By elemination of risk factors it is not clear that the disease process stops or reverses. Pre­ventiona and treatment of risk factors should start before manifestation of arteriosclerosis sympthoms. The result of...

Tetanus Disease (Its Prevention and Treatment)

Nach dem kurzen Bericht ueber die Geschichte van Tetanus; haben wir in diesern Artikel ver­sucht,ueber die Epedirniologie, Pathophisiolo­gie,Aethiologie und die Frueh-und Spaet-Symp­ptome von dieser gcfahrlichen Krankheit,die einen Durchschnitt von 35% Mortalitaet hat,zu berichten.  In disern Artikel legen wir vi.ei wert,besoaders ueber die The·.rapie 1md der Prophyla.xe. Unc:I wii' hal)en bed...

[Causes and prevention of eye injuries].

Prevention of eye injuries in industry.