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There is clear evidence that obese people are at increased risk of health problems, including type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, stroke, osteoarthritis and certain cancers.37 In addition to affecting personal health, these increased risks translate into an increased burden on the health care system.38, 39 Approximately 1 in 10 premature deaths among Canadian adults 2064 years of age may be directly attributable to overweight and obesity.40 Thus, the continuing epidemic of obesity in Canada is exacting a toll on population health. Sweeping prevention and intervention strategies are required to slow or reverse the current trends.
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Insecticide Treated Nets At baseline, almost no children slept under treated nets 0.4% ; . This rose to 26% coverage by the end of the project, not meeting the project goal of 50%, and not reaching the critical level of 85% where a community-wide preventive effect can be expected. A further 11% of children slept under untreated nets 42% of children slept under any net, treated or not ; . A total of 7, 800 nets were sold in communities during the life of the project 3, 518 in Malema and 4, 282 in Nampula ; , the vast majority of these during the last year of the project. Only 715 were sold prior to the midterm evaluation, and another 1, 692 had been sold by September 2005. The nets in the first batch were ordinary square white nets that required treatment, which the team supervised. Later, round LLITNs were available through PSI and were distributed. No retreatment of early nets was done. On the final KPC survey, 42% of households reported having at least one net, and 31% had at least one treated net. Among those families who had nets, 81% reported that the child age 0-23 months slept under the net the night before. Among all families, almost the same proportion of mothers reported sleeping under a net treated or not treated ; the night before 32% ; as children age 0-23 months 34% ; . All health facilities that were visited had mosquito nets in in-patient wards that were in use. These had been donated by the project. Strengthening of malaria diagnosis and treatment services The MOH changed its policy on first-line malaria treatment from chloroquine to artemisinin combination therapy ACT ; using artesunate plus sulfadoxine pyrimethamine SP ; during the middle of the project, and was in the process of introducing IPT with SP in pregnancy during the final evaluation. The project did not provide specific training in malaria protocols, but the new protocols were included in the IMCI training supported by the project. The final KPC survey reports that among children with fever in the previous two weeks, 74% received medicine. Of these, they were most commonly given chloroquine 58% ; and SP 42% ; . 27 and
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National capacity in monitoring antimalarial drug quality as part of the antimalarial drug assurance qA ; system, and to investigate the quality of artesunate ART ; , chloroquine CHL ; , mefloquine MEF ; , quinine QUI ; , sulfadoxine pyrimethamine S P ; , and tetracycline TT ; . MATERIALS AND METHODS Drug sampling The purpose of sampling in this project is to determine the incidence of good, as well as poor, quality antimalarial drugs in 4 sentinel sites by testing for appropriate labeling, the identity of the active pharmaceutical ingredients API s , disintegration, and content of the API s ; . The sampling team consisted of 1 technical officer from the Bureau of Vector-borne Diseases, 1 technical officer from the respective Regional Office of Disease Prevention and Control, 3 field malaria personnel microscopist house visitor ; and pharmacist from the Provincial Health Office. The team visited all registered private drugstores, groceries, government malaria clinics, and government hospitals. An amount of the available antimalarial drugs was purchased. The team carried out drug sampling three times a year in 4-month intervals November 2003-October 2004 ; in Mae Hong Son MHS ; , Kanchanaburi KB ; , Ranong RN, Thai-Myanmar border ; and Chanthaburi CHB, ThaiCambodian border ; . The sampling team did not collect samples of drugs that did not contain the "identifiable" name of the drug product for its API s.
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Developed malaria. As anti-malarial drugs were developed and introduced, the pattern became depressingly familiar - the drug would have a major impact followed by the appearance of resistance. Chlorouqine is increasingly ineffective in Latin America and parts of Africa, and the rate of spread on both continents is causing great concern. Alternative drugs are more expensive and more toxic. Already multidrug resistant strains are being reported in Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Gabon and Kenya. It is in Southeast Asia that most cases of drug resistance first appear and there is speculation that it is due to the use of antimalarial drugs by US forces in the 1960s and 1970s. Along Thailand's borders, there is only one drug that is effective against malaria, a Chinese herbal remedy called Quinghaosu or artemisinin derived from the shrub Artemesia annua wormwood ; . Chemists have produced synthetic analogues, arteflene and artemether, from it. After these, there are only one or two potential candidates in the pipeline. Millions of dollars invested in drug development have yielded no more than 20 effective and safe anti-malarials this century. It is the oldest treatment, quinine, first used in Europe in the 17th century, which remains effective in most areas of the world.
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Leading articles dotal evidence of the failure of a single tablet could be reduced to 300 mg per week without of Maloprim a week to prevent malarial detriment to the blood chloroquine levels. attack. It seems most logical, in view of the Clearly, more prolonged trials of this regime short half-life of dapsonc compared with are needed. In the meantime, the most pyrimethamine, to recommend a dosage of convenient regime of chloroquine adminisone tablet twice a week to achieve synergistic tration in adults is to give half a chloroquine levels of the two drugs at all times. tablet a day for one week before setting off to The dosage of chloroquine, in parts of the the endemic area and for four weeks after world where chloroquine resistance of R2 leaving it. This provides 75 mg chloroquine and R3 does not occur, that is mainly in base daily, and whilst approaching the dose Africa, has been a matter of some dispute. recommended by WHO for areas of very high The officially recommended WHO dosage transmission, it is not a dose which has WHO, 1978 ; is 600 mg chloroquine base per hitherto been known to be associated with week, or 100 mg chloroquine base a day, ocular complications. although with both these doses, the small risk If chloroquine is used for population-wide of damage to the retina on long-term admini- chemoprophylaxis in Africa, there seems stration causes a nagging fear. Recently, work little doubt that the emergence of chlorofrom Sweden Brohult el al, 1979 ; suggests quine resistance will be accelerated. There is that it may be possible to achieve effective obviously an urgent need for a new drug for levels of chloroquine in the blood and red suppression of malaria, for we are at present cells without the need for prolonged high often obliged to rely on the same drug for dosage levels. This is based on the obser- prophylaxis as we use for treatment. This is vation that with a dosage of 300 mg chloro- never a wholesome situation. quine base per week, the chloroquine levels in the first four weeks are low, but that D. BELL after the end of 4 to weeks, they are high Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. enough to produce adequate prophylactic Liverpool. 3, England levels. The explanation for this is probably the extreme affinity which chloroquine has for the liver cells, the concentration of chloroquine in the liver in the stable state References being 1-2, 000 times as high as that in the blood. This observation has resulted in the Brohult, B., Rombo, L., Sirleaf, V. & Bengtsson, E. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology compromise suggestion that for the first six 1979 ; in press. weeks of exposure to malaria, the prophy27 47 ; : 465-4 1978 ; . lactic dose of chloroquine should be 600 mg MMWRWeekly Epidemiologica! Record 53: 181-8 WHO base per week, but that thereafter the dose 1978.
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In 2006, almost two thirds of all persons infected with HIV were living in Sub-Saharan Africa1. Provision of antiretroviral treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa increased tenfold between December 2003 and June 2006, with significant national scale-up efforts in Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia1. Antiretroviral treatment ART ; is provided by both public and private sector facilities. Although public facilities increasingly deliver free or subsidized ART, the engagement of NGOs, health care provided by international and national corporations, faith-based organizations, individual medical providers and pharmacies will continue to be critical in a number of national settings2. Of 16 faith-based non-governmental drug supply organizations in Africa surveyed by WHO in 2003, twelve distributed HIV diagnostic tests, four also distributed antiretrovirals3. Many issues in the delivery of antiretroviral treatment in resource-poor settings have been identified, including the selection of beneficiaries, strengthening of health systems, clinical management, demand and adherence, community involvement, financing, and monitoring and evaluation4. However, the first requirement for any treatment programme is the availability of antiretrovirals of acceptable quality, safety and efficacy. Quality assurance of antiretrovirals is of crucial importance for the success of treatment programmes. Antiretrovirals manufactured below established standards of quality can lead to therapeutic failure, development of drug resistance and toxic or adverse reactions. The HI virus develops resistance readily, and resistant strains can be transmitted, making sub-standard medicines a public health problem5. The problem of sub-standard and counterfeit medicines in developing countries is well documented. A survey on the quality of antimalarials in eight African countries found failure rates at all levels of the distribution chain, including public-sector hospitals and medical stores, with content failure rates ranging from 20-67% for chloroquine tablets and dissolution failure rates of 75-100% for sulfadoxine pyrimethamine tablets6. In quality tests for a mixed sample of tracer medicines in six countries, including Tanzania and Ghana, failure rates above 10% were common, and studies in ten countries found great variation in compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices 7. Counterfeiting is particularly prevalent where regulatory and legal oversight is weak, where prices of medicines are high, where price differentials between identical products exist, and where the official supply chain fails to reach some communities, especially in rural areas8. All these criteria apply to antiretrovirals in Africa. Only 23% of the people in need of ART in sub-Saharan Africa had access to it at the end of 20061. Differential pricing is in place for antiretrovirals, with discounts being offered to eligible countries and organizations9. Regulatory capacity is often inadequate: in a WHO survey of regulatory authorities in 38 African countries, 63% stated that they were unable to evaluate the quality, efficacy and safety of new medicines for lack of resources, and about half did not carry out medicines inspections10. Laboratories are not adequately equipped to do quality analysis of ARVs, especially of new multi-source products11. In November 2003, the WHO issued an alert about the availability of a counterfeit version of a triple antiretroviral combination product, Ginovir 3D, in Cte d'Ivoire. The label stated that the product was manufactured by Selchi Pharmaceuticals, Namibia, and contained zidovudine 200mg ; , lamivudine 150mg ; , and indinavir 40mg ; per capsule. The recommended dosage of indinavir is 800mg day, boosted with 100mg ritonavir12. Analysis by the Agence Franaise de Scurit Sanitaire des Produits de Sant AFSSAPS ; upon request from the Association of AIDS Patients AIDES ; showed that the samples contained zidovudine 201mg, stavudine 40mg, and an unidentified substance13.
Mayxay, M., V. Thongpraseuth, M. Khanthavong, N. Lindegardh, M. Barends, S. Keola, T. Pongvongsa, S. Phompida, R. Phetsouvanh, K. Stepniewska, N. J. White, and P. N. Newton. 2006. An open, randomized comparison of artesunate plus mefloquine vs. dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the Lao People's Democratic Republic Laos ; . Trop Med Int Health 11: 1157-65. Na-Bangchang, K., L. Limpaibul, A. Thanavibul, P. Tan-Ariya, and J. Karbwang. 1994. The pharmacokinetics of chloroquine in healthy Thai subjects and patients with Plasmodium vivax malaria. Br J Clin Pharmacol 38: 278-81 and parlodel.
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DIANA ZUCKERMAN, Ph.D., PRESIDENT NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY RESjEARCH CPR ; FOR WOMEN & FAMILIEis The National Center for Policy Research for Women and Families is committed to the fundamen.tal scientific principle that clinical trials evaluating the safety of and effectiveness of medical products should reflect the diversity of the population, including race and ethnicity criteria, which will use the medical product. The FDA Guidance for Industry on the Collection of Race and Ethnicity Data in Clinical Trials is a critical step forward in the identification of differences in physiological response among racial and ethnic subgroups during the evaluation of the safety and effectiveness of FDA regulated products. However, the FDA Guidance me ely encourages that the data be identified according to race and ethnicity. 4 , he Guidance fails to require the inclusion of racial and ethnic groups in the study population, or to even encourage the use of subsamples of adequate size to ensure that subgroup analysis can provide meaningful data about safety and effectiveness for those subpopulations. The Guidance reflects the policy of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which is designed to "detepine that Federal funds are being used in a nondiscriminatory manner" and to ~"promote the availability of standard racial and ethnic data across various agencies to facilitate HHS responses to major health and human services issues." These goals should apply to all medical products, including drugs, biologics, and medical devices. It is deeply disturbing that the Center for Devices and Radiologic Health does not require or even recommend that racial or ethnic groups be represented in studies submitted for the PMA applications or medical devices. For example, when there is reason to believe that variatio among racial or ethnic groups may influence the safety or effectiveness of a medical device, then the burden should shift to the manufacturer to include I 11relevant racial or ethnic groups. It is critical that racial and ethnic subpopulations be adequately represented in clinical trials in order to ensure that the tested product is safe and effective for all the subpopulations that are likely to use that product.
A total of 38 relevant trials were identified. The 25 included trials had a total of 3907 patients Table 1 ; . There were five trials examining corticosteroids w1418x, three for parenteral gold w1921x, two for sulphasalazine w22, 23x, leflunomide w23, 24x, auranofin w25, 26x, hydroxychloroquine w27, 28x, chloroquine w29, 30x and pamidronate w31, 32x, and one each for cyclosporin w33x, minocycline w34x, methotrexate w24x, cyclophosphamide w35x, D-penicillamine w36x, interleukin 1 IL-1 ; receptor antagonist w37x and infliximab w38x. There were no placebo-controlled trials of combination therapy, azathioprine or etanercept with radiological outcomes. Radiological scoring of erosions included Larsen, Sharp, counts, progression, narrowed joints and new erosions and a grading of severity Table 1 and
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Rain tumors are the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among children. At Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, the Neuro-Oncology Program is committed to improving the survival rate for children who have tumors of the brain, spinal cord or peripheral nerve through state-of-the-art, research-based care. The clinical program is directed by Children's Neuro-Oncology Tumor Board--a team of professionals who are highly trained in pediatric neurosurgery, radiation oncology, radiosurgery, medical oncology, neuroradiology and clinical social work. Depending on their type of tumor, patients may be eligible for treatment in one of many innovative research protocols at Children's Hospital. These protocols, several of which are only available at a few centers throughout the country, provide Children's patients access to new treatments and promising studies that have already resulted in many successful tumor reductions. The Neuro-Oncology Research Program is funded in-part by the NIH and the National Cancer Institute NCI ; . Through funding provided by the NCI, the Pediatric Brain Tumor Clinical Trials Consortium was created. The Consortium is a network of leading academic research medical centers that designs, conducts and evaluates promising treatments for children with brain malignancies and shares institutional expertise, brain tumor specimens and other data. The Consortium, in which Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh will play a key role, also is expected to rapidly identify and evaluate novel treatments and expedite the progress of pediatric neuro-oncological care.
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Chloroquine is used in the prophylaxis of malaria and in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. Case Report: 1A 30 year old female was brought to A&E unresponsive GCS 6 ; , with constricted pupils and respiratory depression after a seizure. She was intubated and ventilated and the ECG showed a sinus bradycardia and a wide QRS 0.16 s ; . Naloxone and atropine were given and heart rate increased. The patient suffered an asystolic cardiac arrest, external chest compression was performed and 1 mg adrenaline was administered, resulting in a regular heart rhythm and rate 60 bpm ; . She was hypokalaemic 1.4 mmol L ; so potassium supplementation was given. A toxicology screen showed a high plasma chloroquine level of 47 mol L. In light of this result a continuous infusion of diazepam was started at a rate of 2 mg kg 24 h. Over the next 24 hours the patient had 2 episodes of ventricular tachycardia, which were treated with cardioversion. After 66 hours, and with a chloroquine level o 2.4 mol L, the f diazepam infusion was stopped; she was extubated and made a good recovery. Comment: Chlooroquine is particularly dangerous in overdose 15 mg kg chloroquine base ; . Ventricular dysrhythmias and arrest can occur within 30 minutes and may be the first sign of toxicity. Other serious effects reported are convulsions, hypokalaemia, coma and respiratory depression or arrest. Treatment includes observation for at least 10 hours with cardiac monitoring and supportive care. Patients who have Key point: ingested more than 3 g, and or show evidence of Ventricular cardio-toxicity particularly dysrhythmias or those with QRS complexes cardiac arrest may 0.12 seconds ; or with be the first sign of systolic blood pressure 80 toxicity mmHg, should be intubated and ventilated and treated with adrenaline and high dose diazepam 1-2 mg kg day ; N KH Reference 1. Stiff G, Robinson D, Cugnoni HL, Touquet R and Dalton 1991 Massive chloroquine overdose a survivor. Postgrad Med J 67: 678-679.
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Research in our laboratory and others over the last 10 years has shown that female animals exhibit greater drug-seeking and drug-taking behavior than males. Female rats and rhesus monkeys acquire drug self-administration faster and in greater numbers per group than males Carroll et al., 2000; Lynch & Carroll, 1999 ; . Female rats and monkeys also escalate their intake faster than males when given extended access to drugs, and they show enduring elevations in drug intake compared with males Carroll et al., 2005; Roth & Carroll, 2004 ; . Female rats show less precise regulation and more binge-like patterns of drug intake than males Lynch et al. 2000 ; . They also show more impulsivity than males in a Go No-go task for i.v. cocaine self-administration Anker & Carroll, 2008 ; . After drug access has ended, and drug-seeking behavior has extinguished, females also show greater drugprimed reinstatement of drug-seeking behavior than males Lynch & Carroll, 2000 however, males show more cue-induced reinstatement than females Fuchs et al., 2005 ; . Female rats and monkeys are also more sensitive to both behavioral nondrug incentives ; and pharmacological e.g., buprenorphine ; treatments for drug abuse than males Carroll et al., 2002 ; . In fact, the only aspect of drug-seeking behavior in which males exceed females is in the severity of drug withdrawal effects. In both rats and monkeys, males show more signs of drug withdrawal, either measured observationally or behaviorally on an operant conditioning baseline with food reward Perry et al., 2006 ; . These studies suggest that females are more sensitive to the rewarding effects of drugs than males; however, males are more sensitive to the aversive effects of drugs than females. Hormonal status plays a major role in these sex differences. Studies of estrous menstrual cycles and exogenously administered hormones to ovariectomized or intact animals indicate that Continued on Page 5.
Alternatively, the increase in perforin expression may be related to the medications used to treat the lupus patients. However, patients with rheumatoid arthritis were receiving similar medications, and no effect on perforin was noted Table I ; . To further exclude this possibility, unstimulated and stimulated human T cells were cultured in the presence or the absence of graded concentrations 0.1100 M ; of medications that are commonly used in lupus treatment: indomethacin for nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs ; , chloroquine for antimalarial agents ; , hydrocortisone for steroids ; , 6-MP for azathioprine ; , and their combinations, as previously reported 12 ; . After culture for 6 and 24 h, perforin expression was determined by flow cytometry and compared with that in untreated cells. None of these medications caused significant changes in perforin expression, suggesting that medications do not account for the differences in expression data not shown ; . To determine whether treatment with immunosuppressive agents was associated with abnormal perforin expression, univariate linear regression was performed. Perforin was modeled as a dependent variable, with medications modeled as dichotomous independent predictors. There was no correlation of specific medications with perforin expression.
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The worsening problems of resistance10 in many parts of the world and the limited number of antimalarial medicines available have led to increasing difficulties in developing antimalarial treatment policies and the provision of prompt and effective treatment to all in need. There is a considerable amount of evidence demonstrating the relationship between increased resistance to first-line antimalarial therapy and increased morbidity and mortality. Drug resistance has also been implicated in the increasing frequency and severity of epidemics WHO and UNICEF, 2003 ; . A report on the global situation of antimalarial drug resistance will soon be published on mosquito.who.int. Chloroqunie resistance Resistance of P.falciparum to chloroquine was first reported almost simultaneously at the beginning of the 1960s from areas on Thai Cambodian and the Colombian Venezuelan borders where uncontrolled use of the drug was rife among migrants working in isolation from routine medical services WHO, 1965; 1973 ; . It is now considered that the use of chloroquinized salt played a major role in Cambodia. In Africa, chloroquine resistance was first documented from Kenya in 197911. It has now has spread throughout the world so that, at present, only falciparum strains from Central America north of the Panama canal and the island of Hispaniola Haiti and the Dominican Republic ; are still reported to be fully sensitive to the drug WHO, 2001a ; . High levels of chloroquine resistance are found in East Africa, South Asia, South-East Asia, Oceania, the Amazon Basin and some coastal areas of South America. In most countries of East Africa and Ethiopia more than 50% of patients are not cured by chloroquine. Moderate levels of resistance are now found in Central and Southern Africa whereas, in West Africa, reported levels vary widely but tend to be lower than in Central and Southern Africa WHO, 2001a; 2003a.
Acquisition, or existing treatment recommendations. In 7 of these cases, chloroquine therapy alone or in combination with proguanil ; was initially given for treating P. falciparum acquired in areas with known chloroquine-resistant P. falciparum malaria. In 5 of these 7 cases, therapy was later changed to a quinine- or quinidine-containing regimen. In 1 case, quinine was paired with mefloquine for treatment increasing the risk for cardiotoxicity ; . In another case, sulfadoxinepyrimethamine therapy alone was started for treating severe malaria an inadequate therapy for severe malaria, even for infections acquired in areas with P. falciparum sensitive to sulfadoxinepyrimethamine, because of the relative slowness of this drug in killing malaria parasites ; , and quinine was later added. Eleven 8.9% ; patients received exchange transfusions as adjunct therapy.
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