Should Glasses Be Prescribed for All Children with Moderate Hyperopia?

Should Glasses Be Prescribed for All Children with Moderate Hyperopia?

Research has shown that the preschool years are a vital time for children to acquire the language skills necessary to succeed in school. In 1965, as part of the “war on poverty” in the United States, the Head Start program was started to help preschool children from low-income families improve their readiness for school. However, by the time a child starts the Head Start program, it may be too ...

Whether all patients with Central precocious puberty should be treated?

Extended Abstract   Precocious puberty is the appearance of secondary sexual characteristics before 8 years old in girls and 9 years old in boys. Precocious puberty is divided into 3 groups of central, peripheral and normal variants. Central precocious puberty is accompanied by activation of hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis which causes increase in secretion of GnRH, and in turn increase i...

Should clofibrate still be prescribed?

I-17: Should All Women with PCOS-Related Infertility Be Treated with Insulin Sensitizing Drugs?

Interest in the role of insulin sensitizing drugs (ISDs) as a means of reducing compensatory hyperinsulinemia in the hope of improving metabolic and reproductive functions in women with PCOS has grown measurably over the past decade. Metformin is believed to lower fasting serum insulin levels in insulin-resistance. For the management of ovulatory infertility in the nonobese PCOS population (BMI...

Pirfenidone should be prescribed for patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Pirfenidone works. There have been four randomised placebo-control trials of pirfenidone for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF); a phase II and phase III study in Japan, and two international multicentre phase III studies. In all four studies, patients treated with pirfenidone had slower rates of decline in lung volume (vital capacity (VC) in the Japanese studies and forced vi...