Safety of Adalimumab Dosed Every Week and Every Other Week: Focus on Patients with Hidradenitis Suppurativa or Psoriasis

Adalimumab for hidradenitis suppurativa.

Which is the best schedule of autologous blood storage for pre-operative AIS patients? Every week or every 2 weeks

Introduction It is important to avoid allogeneic blood transfusion for young patients who undergo corrective surgery. Autologous blood transfusion is now the major way to avoid it. We selected a blood storage method among several methods of autologous blood transfusion because there is no need for special equipment. However, progressing pre-operative anemia is still a major concern. We simply c...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia with circuit changes every 2 days versus every week.

BACKGROUND Frequent ventilator circuit changes are expensive and sometimes unnecessary. Following the worldwide trend to lengthen the intervals for ventilator circuit change from 2 days to 1 week, this study aims to assure that low rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) can be maintained with cost containment. METHODS Ventilator circuits were routinely changed every 7 days in the study...

NHS received almost 4000 written complaints every week last year.

Complaints to the NHS in England seem to be rising and reached almost 4000 every week of last year (2014-15), new data from the Health and Social Care Information Centre have shown. The annual report is a count of written complaints made by or on behalf of patients and received from 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015. The centre’s statistics showed that 205 289 written complaints were made to the NH...

Dose-dense regimen of temozolomide given every other week in patients with primary central nervous system tumors.

BACKGROUND Temozolomide has shown activity and limited toxicity in patients with primary brain tumors at doses of 150-200 mg/m(2)/day on days 1-5 every 4 weeks. In this study, a new alternative dose-dense regimen of temozolomide was explored in patients with recurrent brain tumors. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this study, we evaluated the safety, dose-limiting toxicity, maximum tolerated dose, rec...