HIV and pregnancy

HIV and pregnancy

Just a few things to keep in mind:. A pregnant woman should be treated with AZT (zidovudine) during pregnancy orally (if you already have a prescription for HIV continue the same treatment plan). At the time of delivery should receive intravenous AZT. The newborn should [...]

Treatment of HIV: AZT (Zidovudine)

Treatment of HIV: AZT (Zidovudine)

Features F Zidovudine, ZDV, azidothymidine or AZT was developed as an anticancer drug in 1964 in 1985 proving that he possessed antiviral activity against HIV at concentrations 100 times lower than those toxic to the cells of the medium. It was the first antiretroviral treatment of HIV infection / AIDS approved by the FDA [...]

Argentine Nobel Prizes: Houssay, Milstein, Leloir

Argentine Nobel Prizes: Houssay, Milstein, Leloir

Argentina has been awarded five Nobel Prizes: Three of them related to science that were awarded to Bernardo A. Houssay, Luis Federico Leloir and César Milstein and two related to Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Peace and Adolfo Perez Esquivel. Bernardo Houssay Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947. It was a [...]

2009 Nobel Medicine Prize

2009 Nobel Medicine Prize

In this edition of the awards the prize is aimed at three researchers working in America for his research on the chromosomes of cells. Elizabeth Blackburn, a native of Australia and researcher at the University of California at San Francisco, Carol W. Greider, a U.S. researcher at Johns Hopkins and [...]

Nobel Prize for Medicine 2008

Nobel Prize for Medicine 2008

The Nobel Foundation has highlighted the contribution of French scientists Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and German researcher Harald zur Hausen, who said the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2008. Is that the French scientists who discovered the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has become one of the main [...]

Sulfonylureas (hypoglycemic)

Sulfonylureas (hypoglycemic)

Sulfonylureas are hypoglycemic or sulfodrogas whose primary mechanism of action is associated with increased insulin release. They are divided into first-generation sulfonylureas (tolbutamide, tolazamide, acetohexamide and chlorpropamide _única Argentina_ marketed) and second-generation sulfonylureas (glibenclamide, glipizide, gliclazide and glimepiride Argentina_ marketed _all) The second [...]

Epidemiology of gastric cancer

Epidemiology of gastric cancer

Epidemiology of gastric carcinoma gastric carcinoma is very common in many countries. By some estimates, is the second most common malignancy worldwide. Its incidence, without attachments, has been falling globally since World War II. It is one of the less common in North America. But still the [...]

Oral antidiabetic

Oral antidiabetic

Diabetes (DBT) type II is often marked by a resistance of endogenous insulin action, mainly at the post receptor. In many of these patients will verify the presence of hyperinsulinemia but sometimes can be detected in disorders of insulin secretion. For the treatment of this form of DBT is used to [...]

Medical Dictionary

Medical Dictionary

Aciduria: A condition characterized by the presence of abnormal amounts of acid in urine creatinine clearance: The rate at which the kidneys remove creatinine endogenous or exogenous blood plasma. Rough measure of glomerular filtration rate. The values ​​are 100 to 140 ml7min in men and 85 to 125 ml / min in the [...]

The FDA approved new drug for diabetes (DBT) type II

The FDA approved new drug for diabetes (DBT) type II

The Food and Drug Administration of USA (FDA) approved the drug Onglyza to accompany the diet and exercises to control levels of blood sugar in patients with type 2 diabetes. A statement from the official agency said the Onglyza (saxagilptin) is a type identified as DPP4 inhibitors that [...]

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