antidiarrheals/fatigue

Loperamide is the most commonly used antidiarrhoeal medication in the UK. We report a serious and hitherto undocumented adverse effect of chronic use in a 45-year-old man with inflammatory bowel disease. He presented to the endocrine clinic with fatigue and low libido; biochemical assessment

Illicit drug sale seems to be increasing in developing countries, but it has received little scientific interest from research workers and health planners. A study was carried out in the underprivileged suburbs of Dakar. 10 sellers selected on two markets and a street corner were observed during one

OBJECTIVE To determine the response rate and toxicity of flavopiridol in patients with previously untreated or relapsed mantle-cell lymphoma. METHODS Adult patients with previously untreated or in first or second relapse of previously responsive mantle-cell lymphoma were given flavopiridol 50

Thalidomide is being increasingly used after stem cell transplantation as immunosuppression for patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease, as well as for antiangiogenesis effects in patients with multiple myeloma, brain tumors, leukemia, or other malignancies. The goal of this study was to

BACKGROUND A randomized clinical trial was carried out to evaluate the effect of a diet low in fat and lactose to prevent acute radiation-induced diarrhea. The effect of the diet treatment on the patients' health related quality of life was studied. METHODS 143 women with gynecological malignancies

Effective adverse event (AE) management is critical to maintaining patients on anticancer therapies. The DECISION trial was a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, Phase 3 trial which investigated sorafenib for treatment of progressive, advanced, or metastatic radioactive

The medicinal benefits of Plantago major have been acknowledged around the world for hundreds of years. This plant contains a number of effective chemical constituents including flavonoids, alkaloids, terpenoids, phenolic acid derivatives, iridoid glycosides, fatty acids, polysaccharides and

OBJECTIVE Characterizing the quality of supportive cancer care can guide quality improvement. OBJECTIVE To evaluate nonhospice supportive cancer care comprehensively in a national sample of veterans. METHODS Using a retrospective cohort study design, we measured evidence-based cancer care processes

OBJECTIVE Neratinib is an oral, irreversible pan-ErbB receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor. The efficacy and safety of neratinib were evaluated in two cohorts of patients with advanced ErbB2-positive breast cancer-those with and those without prior trastuzumab treatment-in an open-label, multicenter,