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Understanding patients’ experiences of hayfever and its treatment: a survey of illness and medication cognitions [PDF]

, 2012
Background: Although effective medication for hayfever (seasonal allergic rhinitis) is available, treatment outcomes are often be poor. Patient beliefs influence outcomes in many other diseases.
Frew, Anthony, Llewellyn, Carrie, Smith, Helen, White, Peter, Woodcock, Alison   +4 more
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Corticosteroids for the common cold [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: The common cold is a frequent illness, which, although benign and self limiting, results in many consultations to primary care and considerable loss of school or work days. Current symptomatic treatments have limited benefit.
Del Mar, Chris B., Glasziou, Paul P., Hayward, Gail, Heneghan, Carl J., Perera, Rafael, Thompson, Matthew J.   +5 more
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Development of nasal and throat spray based on Värska mineral water from Gdov aquifer, Estonia [PDF]

Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences
The Värska 6 well extracts mineral water from the sandstones of the Gdov aquifer at a depth of 575–595 m, with a total dissolved solids contents varying between 17 and 27 g/L.
Enn Karro, Uno Mäeorg, Tõnis Karki, Valeria Lindenburg, Päärn Paiste, Kersti Virro, Ain Raal   +6 more
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Spray characteristics from nasal spray atomization

Journal of Aerosol Science, 2022
In addition to topical delivery, nasal sprays offer an alternative drug administration route to the systemic circulation, therefore avoiding the need for painful, invasive delivery techniques. Studies on the efficacy of nasal drug delivery to date have been conflicting despite its potential. In particular computational studies, e.g. Computational Fluid
James Van Strien, Phred Petersen, Petros Lappas, Leslie Yeo, Amgad Rezk, Sara Vahaji, Kiao Inthavong   +6 more
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Preoperative and postoperative medical therapies for chronic rhinosinusitis: National surveys among Chinese otolaryngologists

World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, 2018
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate clinical practice patterns of preoperative and postoperative medical therapies immediately surrounding sinus surgery for chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) by Chinese otolaryngologists.
Zhen-Xiao Huang, Yun-Xia Li, Yu-Bin Wu, Hai-Cheng Liu, Bing Zhou   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Supine Position and Dual-Dose Applications Enhance Spray Dosing to the Posterior Nose: Paving the Way for Mucosal Immunization

Pharmaceutics, 2023
Delivering vaccines to the posterior nose has been proposed to induce mucosal immunization. However, conventional nasal devices often fail to deliver sufficient doses to the posterior nose.
Amr Seifelnasr, Mohamed Talaat, Pranav Ramaswamy, Xiuhua April Si, Jinxiang Xi   +4 more
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Safety Recommendations for Evaluation and Surgery of the Head and Neck During the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]

, 2020
Importance The rapidly expanding novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, has challenged the medical community to an unprecedented degree.
Chinn, Steven B., Clayburgh, Daniel, Davies, Louise, Givi, Babak, Iyer, N. Gopalakrishna, Jalisi, Scharukh, Moore, Michael G., Morris, Luc G. T., Nathan, Cherie-Ann, O'Neill, James P., Orloff, Lisa A., Parker, Noah, Schiff, Bradley A., Zender, Chad   +13 more
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New approach to curb the transmission of leprosy

Hansenologia Internationalis, 1989
The effect of local treatment of nose of lepromatous type of patients with different formulations of rifampicin nasal  rops/sprays was investigated in a large number of patients.
M.C. PRABHAKAR, A.V.N. APPA RAO, D.R. KRISHNA, T.V. RAMANAKAR, P.G. RAO, K. NARSIMHA REDDY   +5 more
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Medication use in pregnancy: a cross-sectional, multinational web-based study [PDF]

, 2014
Objectives: Intercountry comparability between studies on medication use in pregnancy is difficult due to dissimilarities in study design and methodology. his study aimed to examine patterns and factors associated with medications use in pregnancy from a
Bjornsdottir, I., Drozd, M., Gjergja Juraski, R., Hameen-Anttila, K., Juch, H., Kennedy, D., Lupattelli, A., Mardby, A. C., Moretti, M. E., Nordeng, H., Odalovic, M., Panchaud, A., Passier, A., Rieutord, A., Rudolf, G., Spigset, O., Twigg, M. J., Zagorodnikova, K.   +17 more
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Topical drug delivery in chronic rhinosinusitis patients before and after sinus surgery using pulsating aerosols.

PLoS ONE, 2013
ObjectivesChronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a common chronic disease of the upper airways and has considerable impact on quality of life. Topical delivery of drugs to the paranasal sinuses is challenging, therefore the rate of surgery is high.
Winfried Möller, Uwe Schuschnig, Gülnaz Celik, Wolfgang Münzing, Peter Bartenstein, Karl Häussinger, Wolfgang G Kreyling, Martin Knoch, Martin Canis, Sven Becker   +9 more
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