the aim of the present study was to evaluate the pattern of vancomycin administration in the hematology-oncology ward of nemazee hospital, shiraz, iran. study criteria were developed to assess the several parameters involved in vancomycin therapy. these parameters include the appropriateness of drug usage, dosage, duration of therapy, monitoring for toxicity and serum concentration monitoring. ...

this commentary discusses pertinent issues from hyosun kim’s paper on online prescription drug promotion. the study is well-designed and the findings highlight some of the consequences of the food and drug administration’s (fda’s) decision to deregulate online advertising of prescription drugs. while kim’s findings confirm some of the early concerns, they also provide a perspective of implement...

extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (xdr-tb) is a new challenge for tuberculosis control programs. lack of effective drugs and high rate of failure in treatment and mortality is a major threat for public health. treatment of this serious infection needs well-designed individualized dosage regimen and powerful national tb program. in this review we will describe the xdr-tb definition and its...

Raji, A.R. and Norozi, E. 2010. Distribution of external taste buds in walking catfish (Clarias batrachus) and piranha (Serrasalmus nattereri). J. Appl. Anim. Res., 37: 49-52. To determine the distribution of external taste buds (TB), 3 specimen each of the two species of aquarium fishes: Walking catfish (Claris batrachus) and Piranha (Serrasalmus nattereri), were studied. In walking catfish TB...

Cooke, Davenport, and Goodman4 have shown that five sulfonamide drugs are secreted in the gastric juice. When the concentration ratio is defined as the concentration in the gastric juice divided by the concentration in the plasma it is found that the average concentration ratios of sulfanilamide and sulfapyridine are 2.6 and 3.2 respectively. The average concentration ratios of sulfathiazole, s...

1045 n FEATURED CLINICAL INVESTIGATION ARTICLE. Phase II Study of a Radiotherapy Total Dose Increase in Hypoxic Lesions Identified by F-Misonidazole PET/CT in Patients with Non–Small Cell Lung Carcinoma (RTEP5 Study) Pierre Vera, Sébastien Thureau, Philippe Chaumet-Riffaud, Romain Modzelewski, Pierre Bohn, Maximilien Vermandel, Sébastien Hapdey, Amandine Pallardy, Marc-André Mahé, Marie Lacombe...

We are pleased that Thomsen et al. (2012) has tested our newly proposed multi-elevated-temperature post-IR IRSL (MET-pIRIR) procedure (Li and Li, 2011) using their own samples, which provides an independent test on the validity of this procedure. In their study, Thomsen et al. (2012) found that the METpIRIR procedure gave consistent results with the two-step post-IR IRSL (TS-pIRIR) procedure or...

A general overview of the system architecture for knowledge-based monitoring of in-tegrated networks is presented. A performance oriented model of integrated networksis introduced. A Tra c Control Architecture (TCA) for management and control ofnetwork resources is proposed. The proposed TCA ts into an integrated referencemodel for network management and control. A model for...