A Comparison of the Frequency of Prescription and Pharmacy Revisits between Baloxavir Marboxil and Neuraminidase Inhibitors in Influenza-Infected Pediatric Patients during the 2019-2020 Influenza Season.

The novel anti-influenza virus agent baloxavir marboxil is a selective inhibitor of an influenza cap-dependent endonuclease. Although a single oral dose in tablet form of baloxavir marboxil is expected to improve drug compliance and rapidly reduce viral titers for pediatric patients with influenza, there is a concern that baloxavir marboxil-resistant influenza A variants could be generated. In this study, we investigated the frequency of prescription and pharmacy revisits for baloxavir marboxil at an outpatient clinic compared with that of neuraminidase inhibitors in pediatric patients with influenza.

[Evaluation of the Usefulness of a Completely Separated Infection Waiting Room and Non-infection Waiting Room in a Pediatric Neighborhood Pharmacy].

Because patients and their families are at a high risk of contracting infectious diseases in hospital as well as pharmacy, a pharmacy containing the waiting rooms separately for infectious diseases and non-infectious diseases is expected to lead them to visit with confidence and receive appropriate drug administration guidance without the risk of infection. In this study, we examined the potential usefulness of having separate waiting rooms by conducting a questionnaire survey on the structure of the pharmacy waiting room and investigating the visiting situation for influenza-infected pediatric patients from a record of the medicines they received. As a result of the questionnaire tabulated from guardians of 385 pediatric patients who first visited a pharmacy with separate waiting rooms, 70% of the pediatric patients concluded that having separate waiting rooms would be satisfactory.

Constructing an Inexpensive Elevated Plus Maze.

Introducing students to the challenges and rewards of legitimate experimentation has become an essential part of many undergraduate lab courses. However, this objective can be difficult to achieve if the students find the topic uninteresting and therefore do not take ownership of the project. Additionally, the budgets of most undergraduate courses do not allow for the purchase of new equipment for student-generated projects.

A molecular dynamics study on heat transfer characteristics at the interfaces of alkanethiolate self-assembled monolayer and organic solvent.

In this paper, we present molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of interfaces composed of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) and solvents in order to investigate the heat transfer characteristics at the interface. Two typical normal alkylthiolate SAMs with different chain lengths, i.e.

A conformal technique for irradiation of pituitary tumors.

We present a CT/MRI based conformal radiotherapy technique for irradiation of pituitary tumors. In this technique, the patient is treated with three isocentric non-coplanar 18 MV photon beams, with the patient in a natural supine position. The radiation ports are designed based on beam's eye view projections of the CT/MRI delineated target volume.