Tranilast for Preventing Scar Formation: A Renewed Therapeutic Option

Renewed focus on preventing gastric cancer.

can get away with—because they can,” said Hagop Kantarjian, M.D., a leukemia researcher at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, who also writes about this topic. “Drug companies are increasing drug prices to the extent it is harming our patients. Advocating for lower drug prices is a necessity to save the lives of patients who can’t afford them.” Elsewhere, Kantarjia...

Is Sildenafil a Therapeutic Option for Noncompaction?

To the editor With interest we read the article by Redondo et al 1 about a 6yo male with heart failure and left-ventricular hypertrabeculation/noncompaction (LVHT) 1. We have the following comments and concerns. Though LVHT is congenital in the majority of the cases, there are some cases in which LVHT is not present on previous echocardiographies (acquired LVHT) 2. In such cases, LVHT may be tr...

Pharmacogenetics: an Emerging Therapeutic Option for Bangladesh

From socioeconomic point of view adverse drug reactions (ADRs) present a challenging and expensive public health problem worldwide. Most important factors involved in this life threatening events are false diagnosis, failure of treatment, lack of proper patient counseling, lack of knowledge regarding medication use and polypharmacy. Pharmacogenetic research explores genetic variability between ...

Cationic antimicrobial peptides. A future therapeutic option?

Tiotropium: a new therapeutic option in asthma.

Although bronchial hyperresponsiveness to cholinergic agents is a main feature of asthma, the role of anticholinergic drugs in chronic asthma management has been largely underestimated. Several single-dose studies comparing acute bronchodilation induced by ipratropium bromide with salbutamol have shown that salbutamol is more effective than ipratropium in treating asthma. Recently, tiotropium h...