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The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of permethrin, a synthetic pyrethroid, to treat scabies and pediculosis c ...

Drug-induced hepatotoxicity or drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is an acute or chronic response to a natural or manufactured compound.

Vincristine belongs to a group of drugs known as the vinca alkaloids. Vinca alkaloids are organic compounds made up of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, ...

Oral hemangiomas (OHs) are benign tumors that develop due to endothelial cell proliferation and occur in and around the oral cavity. While 60 to 70 ...

Response to drugs varies considerably from person to person, and their clinical outcomes, ranging from treatment failure to adverse drug reactions, ...

Perianal streptococcal dermatitis is an infectious dermatologic disease that typically affects children between the ages of 6 months and 10 years o ...

Muscarinic receptor antagonists (MRAs) function by competitively blocking the cholinergic response manifested by acetylcholine (ACh) binding muscar ...

Humans have been using lead for a variety of applications since millennia, and concomitant with this use has developed an ancient recognition of th ...

Fenoldopam is used primarily for the lowering of blood pressure during episodes of severe hypertension. Fenoldopam is used as an antihypertens ...

Kasabach-Merritt phenomenon (KMP), first described in 1940, is a rare but life-threatening coagulopathy of infancy which presents with thrombocytop ...

Epilepsy is a condition where there are at least two seizures (unprovoked) that occur in more than 24 hours apart. The term epilepsy syndrome is to ...

Bacterial meningitis during the neonatal period is still one of the most devastating conditions, with a morbidity rate of 20% to 60%.

Medication overuse headache (MOH) is thought to occur when medications intended to relieve a headache are consumed too frequently. T ...

Montelukast is an orally dosed drug (available as a film-coated tablet, chewable tablet, or oral granules) that is FDA-approved for treating c ...

Local anesthetics (LAs) in children are used for procedures from topical application for peripheral IV starts to neuraxial use for regional anesthe ...

Use of ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) in the treatment of liver disease dates back more than a hundred years when it was first employed in traditional ...

Patients with advanced heart failure requiring mechanical circulatory support and inotropic support have a poor prognosis.

Adapalene is a topical retinoid that is FDA-approved for the treatment of acne vulgaris. Like other retinoids, adapalene has been used off-label fo ...