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H Reisman

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PubMed2000

Single-dose miconazole nitrate vaginal ovule in the treatment of vulvovaginal candidiasis: two single-blind, controlled studies versus miconazole nitrate 100 mg cream for 7 days.

To determine the efficacy and safety of a single-dose (1200 mg) soft gel insert (vaginal ovule) with miconazole nitrate (2%) topical cream compared with Monistat 7 (miconazole nitrate 2%) Vaginal Cream (Advanced Care Products, North Brunswick NJ) in treating vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC), two randomized, single-blind, multicenter, controlled, comparative phase III studies were performed. Five hundred fifty-eight patients received either a single-dose miconazole nitrate (1200 mg) ovule or seven consecutive doses of Monistat 7. Ovule arm patients also received miconazole nitrate 2% cream for symptom relief, as needed, up to twice daily. The primary end point was a therapeutic cure. Also evaluated were time to complete symptom relief, safety, and patient preference. The ovule had overall cure rates of 71.7% (71 of 99 patients) and 61.5% (64 of 104 patients). Monistat 7 had overall cure rates of 70.1% (68 of 97 patients) and 61.1% (55 of 90 patients). A significantly greater proportion of patients experienced complete symptom relief by day 3 with the ovule (p = 0.008 and p = 0.025), and time to complete relief was significantly faster (median 4 versus 5 days and 3 versus 4 days). Overall safety results were consistent between groups in both studies. Miconazole nitrate vaginal ovule is as safe and efficacious in curing VVC as Monistat 7 while providing complete symptom relief significantly faster. Patients preferred the ovule to prior therapy.

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PubMed1999

A multicenter randomized comparison of cycle control and laboratory findings with oral contraceptive agents containing 100 microg levonorgestrel with 20 microg ethinyl estradiol or triphasic norethindrone with ethinyl estradiol.

OBJECTIVE: This study was undertaken to compare the effects of 2 oral contraceptive regimens on menstrual cycle control and laboratory findings. METHODS: In a multicenter randomized study 100 microg levonorgestrel with 20 microg ethinyl estradiol (Alesse or Loette) was given to 155 healthy women. A triphasic preparation of 500, 750, and 1000 microg norethindrone with 35 microg ethinyl estradiol (Ortho-Novum 7/7/7 or TriNovum) was given to 167 women for 1 to 4 cycles of treatment. RESULTS: Overall, the percentages of normal menstrual cycles and the percentages of cycles with intermenstrual and withdrawal bleeding were similar between the 2 treatment groups. In the levonorgestrel with ethinyl estradiol group, there was a statistically significantly longer latent period and a statistically significantly shorter withdrawal bleeding episode. Adverse events were similar between treatment groups, and none were serious. Most mean changes from baseline laboratory values were comparable between groups, although the mean increase in cholesterol concentration was statistically significantly lower in the levonorgestrel with ethinyl estradiol group. Changes in triglyceride and glucose concentrations were not statistically significantly different between groups. CONCLUSIONS: Levonorgestrel (100 microg) with ethinyl estradiol (20 microg) provides menstrual cycle control equivalent to that obtained with triphasic norethindrone with ethinyl estradiol (75% higher estrogen dose) with similar safety and tolerability.

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PubMed1983

Strategic selection: matching executives to business conditions.

Each business situation requires that executives have a specific set of management skills and characteristics to make the business successful. As businesses adapt their strategies and organizational structures to a changing environment, this set of managerial characteristics must also change: a company may discover its executives are not as suited to manage under the new conditions as they were under the old. The authors contend that executive selection should be linked to strategy, and they present a framework for assessing the managerial characteristics required by various strategic business situations.

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PubMed1982

Isolation and structural elucidation of an ichthyocrinotoxin from the smooth trunkfish (Lactophrys triqueter Linnaeus).

An ichthyocrinotoxin has been isolated from the skin secretion of the smooth trunkfish, Lactophrys triqueter Linnaeus (family Ostraciidae). A crystalline toxin was isolated and identified as the choline chloride ester of palmitic acid. The toxin has a minimum lethal concentration of 2 ppm and an LC50 of 3.5 ppm using mosquito fish as the test organism. A trace quantity of the choline ester chloride of heptadecanoic acid was identified as a minor component of the toxin.

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