Visual acuity

Visual acuity (VA) is acuteness or clearness of vision, which is dependent on the sharpness of the retinal focus within the eye and the sensitivity of the interpretative faculty of the brain. Visu...

Polo like kinase Plk 1

Polo-like kinase (Plk) is an important cell cycle regulatory kinase that has been implicated in a multitude of cell cycle events. Plks form a family of four different proteins that regulates many as...

Herpes simplex virus HSV 1 HSV 2 HHV 1 HHV 2

Herpes simplex virus 1 and 2 (HSV-1 and HSV-2), also known as Human herpes virus 1 and 2 (HHV-1 and -2), are two members of the herpes virus family that infect humans. HSV-1 and HSV-2 cause the vira...

The Top 100 Drugs

The pharmaceutical industry is massive, both in range of products and in financial values. These are the top 200 drugs (ranked in descending order according to total sales in 20010, $), and the co...

Short studies controversially scupper Almiral's Eklira, says German HTA

COPD patients get no additional benefit from Almiral's Eklira Genuair/Bretaris Genuair (aclidinium bromide) compared to Boehringer Ingelheim's Spiriva (tiotropium bromide), says IQWiG, the German...

Short studies controversially scupper Almirall's Eklira, says German HTA

COPD patients get no additional benefit from Almirall's Eklira Genuair/Bretaris Genuair (aclidinium bromide) compared to Boehringer Ingelheim's Spiriva (tiotropium bromide), says IQWiG, the German...

Novartis cheered by COPD trial results

One of Novartis’ experimental respiratory drugs has proved superior in a late-stage trial to Boehringer Ingelheim and Pfizer’s existing brand Spiriva in helping patients breathe more easily. In da...

Eklira Genuair provides meaningful and sustained bronchodilation from the first dose. ...

Eklira®Genuair®(aclidinium bromide) showed a clinically meaningful and statistically significant improvement in bronchodilation vs placebo along a 6-week study, as well as superior bronch...

Almirall says Eklira Genuair provides meaningful and sustained bronchodilation from the first dose

Spain's largest drugmaker, Almirall (ALM: MC) yesterday announced positive results for two Phase IIIb studies with Eklira Genuair (aclidinium bromide), its chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...

Eklira Genuair Provides Meaningful and Sustained Bronchodilation From the First Dose

Patients prefer the Genuair® inhaler over HandiHaler® • Eklira® Genuair® (aclidinium bromide) showed a clinically meaningful and statistically significant improvement in bronchod...

Spiriva provides "modest" bronchodilation in hard-to-treat asthma

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Two new tests of tiotropium (Spiriva) in patients with poorly controlled asthma found that the drug produced "modest" improvements in bronchodilation and signif...

BI breathes easy after Spiriva trumps LABAs in old school German HTA

Boehringer Ingelheim's top selling drug, Spiriva (tiotropium) offers additional benefit compared to placebo and long-acting beta-2 agonists (LABAs), says a report from IQWiG, Germany's Institute of Qu...

The comparative stability of screw versus plate versus screw and plate coronoid fixation.

To compare the biomechanical characteristics of screw versus plate versus both screw and plate fixation for large, type 3 O'Driscoll coronoid fractures.

Catch me if you can: a national survey of rheumatologists and obstetricians on the use of DMARDs during pregnancy.

The use of disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs and biological therapy is variable throughout pregnancy. This questionnaire-based study was undertaken to explore and compare the current practice amo...

CTCA Versus MPI = Anatomical Versus Functional.

Radionuclide arthrogram with SPECT/CT for the evaluation of mechanical loosening of hip and knee prostheses.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the value of SPECT/CT in radionuclide arthrogram (RNA) for the assessment of mechanical loosening of hip and knee prostheses. METHOD: A retrospective audit of 117 RNA SPECT/CTs...

An indirect comparison of dabigatran, rivaroxaban and apixaban for atrial fibrillation.

New oral anticoagulant drugs are emerging as alternatives to warfarin for the prevention of stroke in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation. Two agents are direct factor Xa inhibitors (rivaro...