Tag: Prescription Drugs
Low-Dose Oral Minoxidil Effective for Alopecia in Breast Cancer
All patients receiving surgery/radiotherapy alone or with chemotherapy had improvement or stability of alopecia with LDOM
Spinal Manipulation Lowers Likelihood of Butalbital Rx With Tension-Type Headache
Similar pattern seen for medication overuse headache versus matched controls not receiving SMT
Dupilumab Efficacious for Atopic Dermatitis in Young Children
Findings seen for children with and without comorbidities, such as asthma, allergic rhinitis, food allergies
Benralizumab Beneficial for Eosinophilic Exacerbations of Asthma, COPD
Treatment failures occurred in significantly more patients receiving only prednisolone versus benralizumab
Women Report Less Poststroke Medication Adherence Than Men
Women more likely to report nonadherence to cholesterol-lowering drugs and antiplatelets
2011 to 2022 Saw Decline in Cost-Related Asthma Medication Nonadherence
Adults with asthma with cost-related medication nonadherence more likely to have asthma attacks, ED visits for asthma
Survival Up With Nivolumab + Ipilimumab Versus Chemo for Metastatic CRC
Findings seen in patients with microsatellite-instability-high or mismatch-repair-deficient metastatic colorectal cancer
Radiotherapy With Adjuvant Durvalumab No Benefit for Head, Neck Cancer
No improvement seen in two-year progression-free survival for radiotherapy with durvalumab versus radiotherapy with cetuximab
Itacitinib Helps Prevent Graft Versus Host Disease in Stem Cell Transplant Recipients
Itacitinib results in low cytokine release syndrome grades, low incidence of acute, chronic graft versus host disease
Deprescribing Antihypertensives Not Tied to Hospitalization for Heart Attack, Stroke
Estimated unadjusted cumulative incidence did not differ between long-term care residents who were deprescribed or continued antihypertensives