Citation: Haggag YA and Faheem AM (2015) Evaluation of nano spray drying as a method for drying and formulation of therapeutic peptides and proteins. The high sensitivity of peptides and proteins to physicochemical stresses during processing and storage is the major hurdle against its pharmaceutical applications. Peptide-based drug formulations are commonly prepared as solid dosage forms becaus...

In this issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Sivapalasingam et al. [1] describe an elegant epidemiologic investigation of a mul-tistate outbreak of Salmonella enterica se-rotype Newport infection associated with mango consumption. The details of this investigation highlight a number of important issues demonstrating the substantial impact of recent changes in food processing and distribution ...

I have been using these two books extensively for reference purposes as part of my final year project in psychiatry and I was asked to provide a user's view of them. Although I have found both books useful in my researches, they are very different and individually reflect American and European experience in the fascinating area of non-epileptic seizures. The Ameri-can book "Non Epileptic Seizur...

Book Reviews another way to teach science—smaller, less spectacu-Telling the True Story of Biology lar, and until now, less-respected by the marketplace. That other way is to tell stories. I am convinced that all great teachers (and the Ameri-Discovery—Windows on the Life Sciences can scientific community has had its share), are storytell-By R.A. Lewis ers. I would also suggest that the most su...

or over a century we have been striving to reach the goal of universal literacy. Although more children can read and write than ever before, there is growing concern that we are no longer making progress. Worse, there is widespread alarm that we are losing ground. A recent survey measuring international literacy shows that although the United States can claim a large number of adults (19 percen...

Anybody involved with cancer knows that bad things happen to good people. Sometimes bad things happen to good cancer drugs, too, for reasons ranging from regulatory red tape to intellectual property constraints. The stories of two drugs—one an oral chemotherapy, the other a bone-seeking radiopharmaceutical—show how regulatory or licensing barriers can block a promising compound's path. At the a...

Tobacco settlement dollars are increasingly being used by states to shore up eroding budgets instead of for the purposes they were intended—to offset tobacco-related health care costs and institute tobacco control programs. Congress's investigative body, the General Accounting Office (GAO), reported in March that the 46 states party to the 1998 $206 billion Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) spe...

To the Editor: Plasmodium vivax is the protozoan that causes the second most common form of malaria. Some resistant strains to chloroquine (CQ) occur in a few places in Asia and the Indo-Pacifi c Region (1–4). Although resistance of P. vivax to CQ has already been described in South Ameri-ca (5–7), there are limited data regarding this issue. CQ plus primaquine is the standard treatment for viv...

A male, 20-year-old patient with hematochezia and enteror-rhagia associated with weight loss. Colonoscopy demonstrated nonspecific rectitis, and histopathological analysis was compatible with Crohn's disease. The treatment was initiated and remission was observed. After five months, the medication was interrupted without medical advice, and recurrence of the same initial symptoms was observed a...

T hirty-four years after the establishment of three of the four major federal programs for older Americans, national policymakers in the Executive and Legislative branches are engaged in crafting and advancing proposals to modernize, redirect, and secure Social Security These proposals are being introduced for public discussion and congressional action in 1999, an auspicious year for older Amer...