Tuberculosis: When Difficult to Select Treatment Regimen

Time to Culture Conversion and Regimen Composition in Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment

Sputum cultures are an important tool in monitoring the response to tuberculosis treatment, especially in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. There has, however, been little study of the effect of treatment regimen composition on culture conversion. Well-designed clinical trials of new anti-tuberculosis drugs require this information to establish optimized background regimens for comparison. We c...

Treatment Regimen

Clinical experiences with more than 2000 patients using a lowdose high-frequency dosing regimen of human growth hormone are described . Results of a questionnaire revealed subjective positive effects of the treatment, and lower than expected incidences of adverse side effects reported b y others using higher dose regimens. Retrospective analysis of patient laboratory results revealed that this ...

Proposal for a standardised treatment regimen to manage pre- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis cases.

Affiliations: Pneumology Department, Hospital General de Gran Canaria “Dr. Negrin”, Las Palmas de GC, Spain. Tuberculosis Division, International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), Paris, France. MDR-TB Division, Damien Foundation, Brussels, Belgium. The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland. Maugeri Care and Research Institute, Tradate, ...

Online Education Vendor Partners: When and How to Select One

Higher education institutions are increasingly looking to online education as a means to broaden their market reach, increase student enrollments and ultimately realize increased tuition revenue. Many institutions, however, find that they have insufficient infrastructure resources to launch one or more fully online learning programs. A small number of corporations now specialize in assisting hi...

Prevention of Iodine Deficiency: Difficult to Implement, More Difficult to Sustain