methamphetamine is available with different names such as glass or crystal and its action mechanism is by releasing monoamines such as dopamine, serotonin and nor epinephrine. methamphetamine is a sympathomimetic amine with stimulating, euphoric and hallucinating effects. it has been made in 1983 for the first time in order to treat asthma and nasal congestion. it is the second highly abused su...

In a prospective study of 74 patients and a retrospective study of 35 patients with polymyalgia rheumatica/giant cell arteritis steroid related side effects occurred in at least one third of patients, and in two thirds if weight gain was included. Side effects were significantly related to an initial prednisolone dose of more than 30 mg and to the cumulative prednisolone dose. Patients taking a...

The successful therapy strategy of gastric cancer is defined as devastating of the cancerous cells without exposing systematic toxicity and undesirable side effects. One strategy to overcome cancer treatment related difficulties could be combination therapy with natural products with anticancer drugs to introduce effective antitumor effects in addition to reduction of undesirable side effects. ...

one of the most important parameters in evaluating a watermarking algorithm is its capacity. generally, watermarking capacity is expressed by bits per pixel (bpp) unit measure. but this measure does not show what the side effects would be on image quality, watermark robustness and capacity. in this paper we propose a three dimensional measure named capacity surface which shows the effects of ca...

Hydroxy-methyl-glutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors or statins are well tolerated, but associated with various statin-associated symptoms (SAS), including statin-associated muscle symptoms (SAMS), diabetes mellitus (DM), and central nervous system complaints. These are "statin-associated symptoms" because they are rare in clinical trials, making their causative relationship to sta...

New trends in medicine which are much more oriented towards pharmacoeconomy, are ever so common these days. There's an aim within the focus of the health system which is cutting down treatment expenses, and that relates to psychiatry practice too. Prescription drugs issued by specialist doctors are allowed to be switched with cheaper ones of the same group of drugs by GP doctors, with an aim of...

Thanks for the heads up! PCP is a drug that goes by many names: angel dust, peace pill, rocket fuel, horse tranq, and hog. Georg, you ask whether your experience with the drug is common. Different people experience the drug?s effects differently (e.g., one person?s euphoria might be another person?s nightmare), not to mention the effects based on dosage or whether you are using the drug alone o...

BACKGROUND Treatments for patients with chronic idiopathic urticaria (CIU)chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) who were unresponsive to antihistamines include oral corticosteroids (OCS). Risks of OCS-related side effects in these patients have not been described quantitatively. OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between OCS use and the risk of developing side effects possibly attributab...