In the standard corticotropin-stimulation test, which is used to assess the function of the hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenal axis, synthetic corticotropin is administered at a dose of 250 µg. Previous ...

Doris Lin is an animal rights attorney and the Director of Legal and Government Affairs for the Animal Protection League of New Jersey. Her focuses as an expert writer include animal rights and ...

A dexamethasone suppression test is primarily used to help diagnose Cushing syndrome. Cushing syndrome indicates that you have an abnormally high level of cortisol. Cortisol is a steroid hormone ...

October 16, 2009 — Anaphylactic reactions, including fatalities, have been reported after parenteral administration of iron dextran injection (Dexferrum), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and ...

Many oral drugs show a high variability in pharmacokinetic exposure, and, for drugs with exposure related to efficacy, therapeutic drug monitoring can help optimize exposure in individual patients.

In this study, we tested whether a test dose of i.v. BU at 0.8 mg/kg infused in adult patients 2 weeks before a myeloablative allogeneic HSCT would allow us to target a BU AUC of 4800 (range 4000–6000 ...

Some illnesses have clear signs that tell you what they are, like the bull’s-eye rash of Lyme disease or the high-pitched whoop of whooping cough. But others, such as Cushing syndrome, make you work ...