BACKGROUND/AIMS Entecavir (ETV) is effective and safe antiviral agent against hepatitis B virus (HBV) in clinical and real-world setting but, most studies were performed in single institute or have limitation in patient's number. A large-scale nation-wide real-world surveillance study was carried out to investigate safety, efficacy and clinical effectiveness of ETV in Korean patients with chron...

-

OBJECTIVE Patients with vestibular vertigo suffer from disabling symptoms which affect their quality of life. This article presents the efficacy and safety profile of betahistine hydrochloride in Indian patients suffering from vestibular vertigo (OSVaLD study). METHODS Study included patients suffering from vertigo, who were prescribed betahistine (48 mg/day) according to local label. Safety ...

BACKGROUND Spontaneous adverse drug reaction reporting is the most widely used and cost effective method of monitoring the safety of drugs. This method is heavily afflicted by underreporting by healthcare professionals. The study aims at assessing adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting rate by doctors, knowledge of the reporting system and attitudes to SADR in the Greater Accra region. METHODS...

In this paper we introduce SCARE the Spatial Cultural Abductive Reasoning Engine which solves spatial abduction problems (Shakarian, Subrahmanian, and Sapino 2009). We review results of SCARE for activities by Iranian-sponsored “Special Groups” (Kagan, Kagan, and Pletka 2008) operating throughout the Baghdad urban area and compare these findings with new experiments where we predict IED cache s...

David C. Perlman, Wafaa M. El-Sadr, Eileen T. Nelson, From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Medical Center, and the Division of Infectious Diseases, Harlem Hospital Center, New John P. Matts, Edward E. Telzak, Nadim Salomon, York, New York; CPCRA Statistical Center, Coordinating Centers for Keith Chirgwin, and Richard Hafner, for the Terry Biometric Research, Division of Biostat...