A review of medical literature does not support monthly laboratory testing for all patients who are
using standard doses of the acne medication isotretinoin, according to an article published online by JAMA Dermatology.
(7) The advice to
use standard dosing comes from drug company marketing literature, and is simply wrong.
Not exact matches
«What's frightening about this emerging street drug is that users themselves may not be aware that they are ingesting it,» said lead study author John Stogner, Ph.D. of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, N.C. «A patient may report heroin
use and have symptoms consistent with heroin overdose, but an emergency physician may find that the
standard dose of antidote (naloxone) doesn't work.
Study authors said about one - in - four breakthrough cases of influenza could be prevented if the high -
dose vaccine were
used instead of the
standard -
dose vaccine.
Next,
using data from an early clinical trial in women, the researchers created a mathematical model that predicts these ratios in vaginal, cervical and rectal tissues given
standard doses of medication taken 2 to 7 days per week.
«If children are different, then what information can adult
dosing provide that is of
use to set
standards for protecting children?»
Although Singapore is probably the easiest country in Asia to live in as an expat, due the high
standard of living and widespread
use of English, there is always an inevitable
dose of culture shock.
They found that a single oral
dose significantly reduced pain
using a
standard test — how much pressure the rat could withstand before withdrawing its paw.
«These studies suggest the potential for dramatically reducing the
dose of chemotherapy or radiation and thereby reducing the side effects of
standard chemotherapy by enhancing the targeting of cancer therapies
using HIV receptor blocking drugs.»
Rather than calculating a
standard dose of hydroxyurea based on patients» weight, researchers
used a
dose - escalation approach to determine the maximum tolerated
dose for each of the 230 St. Jude patients enrolled in the study.
Compared with a historical control trial, AIDA 0493, which
used a significantly higher anthracycline
dose and did not include ATO consolidation, the event - free survival for patients with
standard - risk disease in this trial was noninferior.
It should be noted that 300 mg of oral progesterone is a very high
dose, and doctors in the U.S. who
use bioidentical hormones tend to
use the
standard 200 mg
dose of Prometrium.
One report stated that a study
used a
standard guggul gum
dose for 75 weeks without problems.
Other hormone replacement therapy regimens
use a hit - and - miss type approach for calculating what
dose is best for you, starting with a
standard dose that's increased or decreased in reaction to how you feel after a few weeks.
There is currently no
standard for the most effective
dose, so a consumer should carefully take into consideration the quality of the Fulvic Acid source, as well as the processing method
used to make it consumable for humans.
A
standard daily
dose of spirulina is 1 - 3 grams, but
doses of up to 10 grams per day have been
used effectively.
Perhaps more importantly, a nearly identical effect is seen on the math portion of the ACT (taken in the spring of 11th grade), with double -
dose algebra raising scores by 0.15
standard deviations on an exam
used by many colleges as part of the admissions process.
Example: Immodium (Loperamide) can be neurotoxoic is some collies and other breeds with MDR1 mutation,
using peroxide to induce vomiting is contraindicated in some cases as some things dogs ingest should NOT be vomited up, and peroxide may cause gastritis if over-
used (
using it 3x as suggested here is a bad idea, and ideally should not be
used at all w / o first talking to a vet or a toxicology hotline with knowledge about dogs, peroxide not a good idea at all for cats and 10 mls is NOT a
standard dose for every dog!!!!), mineral oil can cause aspiration pneumonia if it gets in the lungs and I would not recommend it to most pet owners to administer, and pepto bismol products sometimes contain xylitol which is deadly, aspirin is OK in a pinch but can cause serious problems with long term
use... that's just a few thoughts off the top of my head.