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Terfenadine, a potent histamine H1‐receptor antagonist in the treatment of grass pollen sensitive asthma.
1. We have assessed the effect of a specific histamine H1‐receptor antagonist, terfenadine, in the treatment of atopic asthmatics during the grass pollen season. 2. Eighteen mil...
Textile Masks and Surface Covers—A Spray Simulation Method and a “Universal Droplet Reduction Model” Against Respiratory Pandemics
The main form of COVID-19 transmission is via "oral-respiratory droplet contamination" (droplet: very small drop of liquid) produced when individuals talk, sneeze, or cough. In ...
A Patient with Asymptomatic Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Antigenemia from the 2003–2004 Community Outbreak of SARS in Guangzhou, China
An asymptomatic case of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) occurred early in 2004, during a community outbreak of SARS in Guangzhou, China. This was the first time that a ...
Clinical Experience with Goal Attainment Scaling in Geriatric Care
Objectives: This article presents a qualitative evaluation of the utility of Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) in geriatric care. GASis an individualized outcome measure particularl...
Women recovering from first‐time myocardial infarction (MI): a feminist qualitative study
Women recovering from first‐time myocardial infarction (MI): a feminist qualitative study Although myocardial infarction (MI) is a leading cause of death and disablement for wom...
Nebulised sodium cromoglycate in recurrently wheezy preschool children.
A double blind crossover study of nebulised sodium cromoglycate in 27 asthmatic preschool children was carried out over a one year period. All subjects had sufficiently severe a...
Ethnic differences in prevalence of asthma symptoms and bronchial hyperresponsiveness in New Zealand schoolchildren.
Maoris and Pacific Islanders in New Zealand have a higher asthma mortality and hospital admission rates than Europeans. To determine whether difference in asthma prevalence is t...
Management Succession and Administrative Style
This study of management succession is the second of two articles dealing with the events that occurred at a state mental hospital following a change of superintendents. In the ...
Characteristics of Indigenous primary health care models of service delivery: a scoping review protocol
Indigenous populations in colonized countries experience worse health outcomes relative to their non-Indigenous counterparts. In Australia, in the period 2010 to 2012 the estima...
Facilitation of Infection of Monkey Cells with Poliovirus "Ribonucleic Acid"
The plaque titer of poliovirus "ribonucleic acid" on monkey kidney cells cultured in vitro is greatly increased by depleting these cells of calcium and treating the "ribonucleic...