May 24, 2001 (Bethesda, Md.) — The FDA needs to communicate to doctors that there may be safety questions with the popular Pfizer blood pressure drug Cardura, according to recommendations Thursday from an expert committee to the agency.
But the panel wasn’t sure yet how updated labels for the dr…
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NEWTOWN, Pa.–(BW HealthWire)–Dec. 21, 2000
During the year ending September 2000, urologists wrote 25.3 million retail prescriptions, 5% more than in the previous 12-month period, according to Scott-Levin’s Source(TM) Prescription Audit (SPA).
The top five therapeutic classes prescribed by these specialists were drugs for benign prostate disorders, 10.6%; drugs fo…
Cialis is used for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (impotence).
How should this medicine be used ?
Take Cialis tablets by mouth. Follow the directions on the prescription label. The dose is usually taken 30 minutes to 1 hour before sexual activity….
Prostate treatments for common disorders in the prostate gland are varied and numerous. Disorders in the prostate gland are easier to control and treat than other diseases, thanks mainly to the scientific community’s numerous researches regarding the subject. Several options are available to men who suffer from these disorders, ranging from monitoring tactics to surgical…
The prostate is a walnut-size gland of the male mammalian reproductive system. Its main function is to secrete and store the seminal fluid (one of the constituents of sperm). In women, Skene’s glands are sometimes referred to as a female prostate. The most common problems of the prostate are benign prostatic hypertrophy, Prostatitis and prostat…
Practice recommendations
* In your efforts to reduce cardiovascular events in hypertensive patients, concentrate on getting patients to goal, rather than on which drugs to use to get them there (A).
* Beta-blockers–especially atenolol–should not be the drug of first choice when treating older patients with hypertension (A).
* Multiple drugs are required for adequate blood pressure control in most patients (…
Prostate enlargement is a fact of life for many men ages 50 and up. For some, it could be little more than a painful inconvenience. However, if left untreated it could progress to worse ailments, and may become more difficult to treat over time. Not to fear: new cures are enlarged prostate are continually being discovered, so no matter what problem stage your prostate is in, you can look forward to the best aid…
For men with enlargement of the prostate gland, also called benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), combining two classes of drugs reduces the risk of significant worsening of symptoms and other complications by 66 percent, according to investigators at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
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ATLANTA — The rational way to utilize [alpha]-blocking agents in benign prostatic hyperplasia is to prescribe terazosin (Hytrin) as first-line therapy, Dr. Muta M. Issa advised at a meeting on clinical nephrology sponsored by the National Kidney Foundation.
Reserve the far costlier alternatives, doxazosin (Cardura) and tamsulosin (Flomax), for men who…
