News tagged with oral tablet


Pharmaceutical advances offer new options for health outcomes

Research presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) explores pharmaceutical advances for treating irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea (IBS-D) and hepatitis C.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 20, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study demonstrates that once-a-day pill offers relief from ragweed allergy symptoms

An international team of researchers, led by physician-scientists at Johns Hopkins, reports that a once-daily tablet containing a high dose of a key ragweed pollen protein effectively blocks the runny noses, sneezes, nasal ...

Immunology created May 07, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tenofovir Gel wins out in drug absorption study, but HIV prevention trials say differently

A novel head-to-head study looking at differences in how the antiretroviral (ARV) drug tenofovir gets absorbed in the body as either an oral tablet or a vaginal gel found tenofovir gel can achieve substantially higher concentrations ...

HIV & AIDS created Jan 30, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brain imaging insight into cannabis as a pain killer

The pain relief offered by cannabis varies greatly between individuals, a brain imaging study carried out at the University of Oxford suggests.

Medical research created Dec 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Research into bleeding prevention post-birth could save lives

Research brings together evidence about the potential for misoprostol to prevent bleeding after home births in low resource countries.

Obstetrics & gynaecology created Dec 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NIH discontinues tenofovir vaginal gel in 'VOICE' HIV prevention study

A large-scale clinical trial evaluating whether daily use of an antiretroviral-containing oral tablet or vaginal gel can prevent HIV infection in women is being modified because an interim review found that the gel, an investigational ...

HIV & AIDS created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Double duty: Anti-HIV topical gel also protects against herpes virus

HIV infection is commonly associated with other sexual infections, such as herpes simplex virus (HSV). Infection with HSV facilitates the risk of HIV infection and negatively impacts the clinical course of HIV disease. Therefore, ...

HIV & AIDS created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

NIH modifies 'VOICE' HIV prevention study in women

A large-scale clinical trial evaluating whether daily use of an oral tablet or vaginal gel containing antiretroviral drugs can prevent HIV infection in women is being modified because an interim review found that the study ...

HIV & AIDS created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0